Log24

The previous post suggests a search in this journal
for "Bamberg." That search yields . . .

http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=20002 —

Beauty, Truth, Halloween (October 31, 2011).

From that Log24 post —

"Now resemblance (or similitude or likeness) is a relation.
If such relations are realities, then we can say that there are realities
out there that correspond to our conceptual structures."

— R.J. Kilcullen at Macquarie University, course labeled Phil360

"Beauty then is a relation."

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

"An Attempt to Understand the Problem of Universals"
is the title of a talk by Fabian Geier, University of Bamberg.

From a link target at the end of that post —

On Siri Hustvedt:

“… she explores the nature of identity
in a structure of crystalline complexity.”

— Janet Burroway, quoted in ART WARS  

“Is it safe?”

— Annals of Art Education:
 Geometry and Death

For the Cheers neighborhood and the Church of the Advent . . .

A 4×6 Rectangle —

* An imaginary institution, but one I remember well.

More recently . . .

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/
us/politics/trump-biden-election.html —

The Aloha Grid

Some less demanding reading:  Mysteries of the Rectangle .

“At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light,
an image of unutterable conviction,
the reason why the artist works and lives
and has his being — the reward he seeks —
the only reward he really cares about,
without which there is nothing. It is to snare
the spirits of mankind in nets of magic,
to make his life prevail through his creation,
to wreak the vision of his life, the rude and painful
substance of his own experience, into the congruence
of blazing and enchanted images that are themselves
the core of life, the essential pattern whence
all other things proceed, the kernel of eternity.”

— Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River

* Title suggested by that of a Siri Hustvedt novel.
   See also Blazon in this journal.

The online New York Times  this afternoon has an article on "the
preparatory cartoon for Raphael’s fresco 'The School of Athens.'" 

Other preparatory cartoons:

The first New Yorker  cover above is from a search for Hustvedt
in this  journal. See the 2003 post "Art at the Vanishing Point."

See also Trivial + Affine and Eidetic Reduction.

"Siri Hustvedt is an award-winning and versatile American
writer and essayist. She earned her PhD in Literature at
Columbia University in 1986. She often points to her
Norwegian family background in her works, and she is
known as one of the foremost interpreters of Norwegian-
American identity in English literature."

— University of Oslo,
     "Siri Hustvedt: Honorary doctor 2014"

See also Hustvedt in this journal.