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Monday, April 5, 2021

A New (Old) Key* for Philosophy

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:00 pm

* See other posts tagged Langer Key.

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Philosophy in a New Key

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:29 am

(With apologies to Susanne K. Langernée  Susanne Katherina Knauth)

Google search for 'buzzard key proof'

See too the buzzard-related Catch-22 song

Monday, October 21, 2019

New Key

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:22 am

 

Sunday, October 13, 2019

Langer

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:00 am

"Visual forms— lines, colors, proportions, etc.—
are just as capable of articulation ,
i.e. of complex combination, as words.
But the laws that govern this sort of articulation
are altogether different from the laws of syntax
that govern language. The most radical difference
is that visual forms are not discursive .
They do not present their constituents successively,
but simultaneously, so the relations determining
a visual structure are grasped in one act of vision."

— Susanne K. LangerPhilosophy in a New Key

Friday, October 24, 2014

New Key

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:00 pm

See Langer (Harvard U. Press, Third Edition, Jan. 31, 1957, pp. 3-4-5).

See also Old Key : Pythagoras, harmony, and the 3-4-5 triangle.

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

European Culture

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:59 pm

A Wroclaw image from 2011 in which a version of my own work appears —

Later … A Wroclaw image posted by marrific on June 2, 2019

Recall too the oeuvre  of Wroclaw native Ernst Cassirer . . .

Except, perhaps, by some roller-skate fans . . .

From The Catcher in the Rye —

“She was having a helluva time tightening her skate.
She didn’t have any gloves on or anything and her hands
were all red and cold. I gave her a hand with it. Boy, I
hadn’t had a skate key in my hand for years. It didn’t feel
funny, though. You could put a skate key in my hand
fifty years from now, in pitch dark, and I’d still know
what it is. She thanked me and all when I had it tightened
for her. She was a very nice, polite little kid. God, I love it
when a kid’s nice and polite when you tighten their skate
for them or something. Most kids are. They really are.
I asked her if she’d care to have a hot chocolate or something
with me, but she said no, thank you. She said she had to meet
her friend. Kids always have to meet their friend. That kills me.

Even though it was Sunday and Phoebe wouldn’t be there
with her class or anything, and even though it was so damp
and lousy out, I walked all the way through the park over to
the Museum of Natural History. I knew that was the museum
the kid with the skate key meant.”

Sunday, July 3, 2016

Articulation

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:10 am

Notes for a monkey grammarian

"Visual forms— lines, colors, proportions, etc.—
are just as capable of articulation ,
i.e. of complex combination, as words.
But the laws that govern this sort of articulation
are altogether different from the laws of syntax
that govern language. The most radical difference
is that visual forms are not discursive .
They do not present their constituents successively,
but simultaneously, so the relations determining
a visual structure are grasped in one act of vision."

— Susanne K. LangerPhilosophy in a New Key

See also Langer's New Key in this journal.

Related material —

Monday, June 20, 2016

Shema, Salinger

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:00 pm

"I've got a brand-new pair of roller skates "

Melanie, 1971

Related material —  Salinger in the Park and
                                 Philosophy in a New Key.

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Tonic

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:00 pm

Related posts:
New Key and The Well-Tempered Monolith.

Hold the gin.

Sunday, September 7, 2014

Sunday School

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:28 am

In memory of Joan Rivers

Heaven's Gate

This post was suggested by the previous post‘s quote

“the subject’s desires are scripted and orchestrated
by an unconscious fundamental fantasy,”

and by one of my favorite musical fantasies:

Melanie – Brand New Key (’71) .

Academics may prefer the following —

Susanne K. Langer,'Philosophy in a New Key'

Monday, August 11, 2014

Syntactic/Symplectic

(Continued from August 9, 2014.)

Syntactic:

Symplectic:

"Visual forms— lines, colors, proportions, etc.— are just as capable of
articulation , i.e. of complex combination, as words. But the laws that govern
this sort of articulation are altogether different from the laws of syntax that
govern language. The most radical difference is that visual forms are not
discursive 
. They do not present their constituents successively, but
simultaneously, so the relations determining a visual structure are grasped
in one act of vision."

– Susanne K. LangerPhilosophy in a New Key

For examples, see The Diamond-Theorem Correlation
in Rosenhain and Göpel Tetrads in PG(3,2).

This is a symplectic  correlation,* constructed using the following
visual structure:

IMAGE- A symplectic structure -- i.e. a structure that is symplectic (meaning plaited or woven).

* Defined in (for instance) Paul B. Yale, Geometry and Symmetry ,
Holden-Day, 1968, sections 6.9 and 6.10.

Monday, November 22, 2010

Backstory

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:48 am

Steve Martin’s new novel An Object of Beauty  will be released tomorrow.

“The most charmingly rendered female schemer since Truman Capote’s Holly Golightly.”
Elle  magazine

“Martin compresses the wild and crazy end of the millennium
and finds in this piercing novel a sardonic morality tale….
Exposes the sound and fury of the rarified Manhattan art world.”
Publishers Weekly

“Like Steve Martin’s Shopgirl , this very different novel will captivate your attention from start to finish.”
— Joyce Carol Oates

Martin on his character Ray Porter in the novella Shopgirl  (published Oct. 11, 2000)—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101122-MartinShopgirl-loq.jpg

“He said, ‘I wrote a piece of code
that they just can’t seem to do without.’
He was a symbolic logician. That was his career….”

As the above review notes, Martin’s new book is about art at the end of the millennium.

See also Art Wars: Geometry as Conceptual Art
and some of my own notes from 2000 (March 9) in “Is Nothing Sacred?

Some related material —

A paperback with a striking cover (artist unknown)—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101027-LangerSymbolicLogic.jpg

Note that the background may be constructed from
any of four distinct motifs. For another approach to these
motifs in a philosophical context, see June 8, 2010.

“Visual forms— lines, colors, proportions, etc.— are just as capable of articulation , i.e. of complex combination, as words. But the laws that govern this sort of articulation are altogether different from the laws of syntax that govern language. The most radical difference is that visual forms are not discursive . They do not present their constituents successively, but simultaneously, so the relations determining a visual structure are grasped in one act of vision.”

Susanne K. Langer, Philosophy in a New Key

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Language and Form

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:00 am

In memory of S. Neil Fujita, who died last Saturday—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101027-PhilosophicalSketches2.jpg

Fujita did the cover art for this edition.

Another book by Langer with a striking cover (artist unknown)—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101027-LangerSymbolicLogic.jpg

Note that the background may be constructed from
any of four distinct motifs. For another approach to these
motifs in a philosophical context, see June 8, 2010.

"Visual forms— lines, colors, proportions, etc.— are just as capable of articulation , i.e. of complex combination, as words. But the laws that govern this sort of articulation are altogether different from the laws of syntax that govern language. The most radical difference is that visual forms are not discursive . They do not present their constituents successively, but simultaneously, so the relations determining a visual structure are grasped in one act of vision."
Susanne K. Langer, Philosophy in a New Key

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