Friday, February 23, 2024
A logo from the previous post —
This suggests a flashback to an image from Log24 on Nov. 6, 2003 —
Moral of the
Entertainment:
According to Chu Hsi [Zhu Xi],
“Li” is
“the principle or coherence
or order or pattern
underlying the cosmos.”
— Smith, Bol, Adler, and Wyatt,
Sung Dynasty Uses of the I Ching ,
Princeton University Press, 1990
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Friday, January 5, 2024
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Friday, December 29, 2023
* For clues, see today's post 'The Fandom Thread" …
" Say 'Cheese.' "
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Friday, December 8, 2023
Example —
Background —
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Friday, November 10, 2023
Related art —
(For some backstory, see Geometry of the I Ching
and the history of Chinese philosophy.)
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* —
A line for the Monster — "Cube mine !"
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Sunday, September 17, 2023
From posts tagged Field Theology —
Illustration of the Japanese (and Chinese) character for "field"—
From an Instagram ad today —
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Tuesday, September 5, 2023
See "language animal" in this journal.
Update of 8:36 AM ET — Related reading …
The phrase of Blake Chandler in "Irreconcilable Differences" —
"I'm gonna find myself a brand new Santa!"
One candidate for that role — See "Out of Nothing, Everything."
Update of 8:45 AM ET — Related imagery …
April 28, 2018, and November 27, 2021.
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Sunday, May 7, 2023
For the title, see Logos in this journal.
Some examples —
"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."
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Friday, March 25, 2022
From the "Mathematics and Narrative" link in the previous post —
An image reposted here on March 12, 2022, the reported date of death
for Vera Diamantova —
Helen Mirren with plastic Gankyil .
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Saturday, March 12, 2022
The "branding" part of this post's title and tag —
The scene went from bad to worse. The camerlengo’s torn cassock, having been only laid over his chest by Chartrand, began to slip lower. For a moment, Langdon thought the garment might hold, but that moment passed. The cassock let go, sliding off his shoulders down around his waist.
The gasp that went up from the crowd seemed to travel around the globe and back in an instant. Cameras rolled, flashbulbs exploded. On media screens everywhere, the image of the camerlengo’s branded chest was projected, towering and in grisly detail. Some screens were even freezing the image and rotating it 180 degrees.
The ultimate Illuminati victory.
Langdon stared at the brand on the screens. Although it was the imprint of the square brand he had held earlier, the symbol now made sense. Perfect sense. The marking’s awesome power hit Langdon like a train.
Orientation. Langdon had forgotten the first rule of symbology. When is a square not a square? He had also forgotten that iron brands, just like rubber stamps, never looked like their imprints. They were in reverse. Langdon had been looking at the brand’s negative !
As the chaos grew, an old Illuminati quote echoed with new meaning: ‘A flawless diamond, born of the ancient elements with such perfection that all those who saw it could only stare in wonder.’
Langdon knew now the myth was true.
Earth, Air, Fire, Water.
The Illuminati Diamond.
— Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
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I prefer Modal Nietzsche.
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In a 1999 Yale doctoral dissertation,
"Diabolical Structures in the Poetics of Nikolai Gogol,"
the term "antilogos" occurs 70 times.
Students of poetic structures may compare and contrast . . .
Logos
Antilogos
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Monday, March 7, 2022
Logos as tab icons —
Logos in context —
Related graphic design from April 1, 2018 —
Later, in 2019 —
An undated webpage says . . .
"…we’re officially announcing the launch of the new Beamery brand."
— https://beamery.com/resources/blogs/were-launching-beamerys-new-brand
(metadata: itemprop="datePublished" content="2019-11-20T19:00:00")
This logo design was described elsewhere —
"Beamery's new mark–The Bexa. The Bexa contains the negative space
of 3 Bs rotating clockwise within a hexagon shape to capture Beamery's
3 pillars of the Talent Operating System." — Ben Stafford for Focus Lab
"All things serve the Beamery."
— Slogan adapted from Stephen King.
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Friday, November 5, 2021
The three favicons below may be interpreted
as logos representing "A-OK* Space."
"Fans can have the ultimate GAP Band experience
by visiting the members' childhood home and walking
the north Tulsa streets that gave the band its famous
name – Greenwood, Archer and Pine."
— https://www.travelok.com/music-trail/
itineraries/the-gap-band-hometown
*
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Monday, October 18, 2021
See Leiber in this journal.
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Friday, July 30, 2021
See too "Page 293" in this journal.
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Friday, April 30, 2021
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Sunday, March 28, 2021
From the RSS feed of The Chronicle of Higher Education ‘s site
Arts & Letters Daily this evening —
“Despite the wide scope of his bibliography and reception,
Derrida was a specialist in a subfield of his own design,
more or less: the philosophy of writing, which upends
the privileging of speech over writing that has dominated
Western metaphysics since Plato. This ‘phonocentrism’
(which Derrida yarns into ‘logocentrism,’ and eventually,
‘phallocentrism’) starts from a false premise, that the
moment of utterance in Aristotle’s view is somehow more
rhetorically ‘present’ than the kairos of writing….”
— Andrew Marzoni, March 10, 2021:
“Outside the Text: Jacques Derrida resists
easy canonization in a new hagiography for the Left.”
https://thebaffler.com/latest/outside-the-text-marzoni
A related image from this journal
on that same date, March 10, 2021:
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Friday, February 19, 2021
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Monday, December 28, 2020
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Sunday, December 27, 2020
Related material from Log24 yesterday —
Click the Aquarius symbol for a puzzle.
Aquarius.jpg .
A related animation —
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Sunday, September 6, 2020
This post was suggested by my Feedly tonight —
“Add note” — A constant Feedly suggestion.
OK . . .
— Images from The Hogwash Papers
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This is part of a publishers‘ logo —
See as well this journal on the date of Kaufmann’s death:
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Wednesday, July 22, 2020
The Project Voldemort logo capture shown below is the first one at archive.org.
It is dated Dec. 23, 2009. See also this journal on that date —
Xmas at the Farolito .
“V. is whatever lights you to
the end of the street: she is
also the dark annihilation
waiting at the end of the street.”
(Tony Tanner, page 36, "V. and V-2," in
Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays,
ed. Edward Mendelson.
Prentice-Hall, 1978. 16-55).
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Thursday, October 24, 2019
From the end credits for a 2016 TV mini-series
based on the Stephen King novel 11/22/63 —
This post was suggested by the Oct. 22 post
Logos, by the Oct. 11 post Dick Date, and by
the Oct. 11 death of an MIT robotics professor.
Related tasteless humor —
A headline from the print version of the recent
technology issue of The New Yorker :
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019
The production-company logos for Carpenter B and Bad Robot
in end credits for a 2016 TV mini-series based on the Stephen King
novel 11/22/63 suggest a look at . . .
For the Church of Synchronology —
This weblog on Aug. 11, 2017:
Symmetry's Lifeboat and Archimedes for Jews.
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Thursday, September 12, 2019
… Continued from previous posts now tagged Art Logos.
"Logos," a Greek word used in philosophy and theology,
is, in modern usage, also a brief form of "logotypes,"
a name for the branding symbols used by businesses.
For some less commercial aspects of the philosophical
concept, see Logo in this journal.
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Wednesday, September 11, 2019
The previous post suggests a review of . . .
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Sunday, August 25, 2019
Burning Man and Sugar Labs logos
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Saturday, July 6, 2019
Mythos
Logos
The six square patterns which, applied as above to the faces of a cube,
form "diamond" and "whirl" patterns, appear also in the logo of a coal-
mining company —
.
Related material —
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Friday, March 8, 2019
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Monday, March 4, 2019
A less sophisticated approach to logos —
See also Logos in this journal.
For those who prefer Latin, there is Verbum.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018
(Continued)
Musical accompaniment from Sunday morning —
Update of Nov. 21 —
The reader may contrast the above Squarespace.com logo
(a rather serpentine version of the acronym SS) with a simpler logo
for a square space (the Galois window ):
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Sunday, October 14, 2018
New and old AMS logos —
I prefer the old. Related material —
For an old Crosswicks curse, see that phrase in this journal.
For a new curse, see . . .
"Unsheathe your dagger definitions." — James Joyce.
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Thursday, August 2, 2018
For Ant-Man —
For Spider-Man —
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Monday, July 30, 2018
Mary McCarthy's philosophical remark in the previous post
suggests further investigation of the number 281 . . .
Another way to secure 281 –
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Monday, May 14, 2018
In 2013, Harvard University Press changed its logo to an abstract "H."
Both logos now accompany a Harvard video first published in 2012,
"The World of Mathematical Reality."
In the video, author Paul Lockhart discusses Varignon's theorem
without naming Varignon (1654-1722) . . .
A related view of "mathematical reality" —
Note the resemblance to Plato's Diamond.
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Saturday, April 14, 2018
Cover illustration: © Béatrice Machet
On the above book cover, presumably the diamond
represents transcendence; the square, immanence.
See also the logos in a Log24 post of April 10.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Sunday, April 1, 2018
Sunday, February 4, 2018
"The walls in the back of the room show geometric shapes
that remind us of the logos on a space shuttle. "
— Web page on an Oslo art installation by Josefine Lyche.
See also Subway Art posts.
The translation above was obtained via Google.
The Norwegian original —
"På veggene bakerst i rommer vises geometriske former
som kan minne om logoene på en romferge."
Related logos — Modal Diamond Box in this journal:
Logos for Philosophers
(Suggested by Modal Logic) —
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Wednesday, January 10, 2018
(Continued)
Updates of 9:40 PM ET Jan. 10
to 5:45 AM ET the next day:
See a letter from the AMS on their new logo.
Recent revision (pre-2018) of the former AMS logo
The Society's letter describes perceptions of the pre-2018 logo —
"… market research on our current logo revealed that
the connection between a Greek temple and
a mathematical society has become increasingly tenuous
among non-members and younger mathematicians, who
associate the Greek temple with a financial institution."
The omission of the alleged motto of Plato's Academy,
AGEOMETRETOS ME EISITO, in the recent (pre-2018)
revision of the logo was part of the Society's ongoing
process of politically correct dumbing-down. That omission
may have influenced the perception of the logo as picturing
a Greek temple rather than the Academy.
Some related remarks from 2005 —
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Friday, December 8, 2017
Part I: Black Magician
"Schools of criticism create their own canons, elevating certain texts,
discarding others. Yet some works – Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano
is one of them – lend themselves readily to all critical approaches."
— Joan Givner, review of
A Darkness That Murmured: Essays on Malcolm Lowry and the Twentieth Century
by Frederick Asals and Paul Tiessen, eds.
The Asals-Tiessen book (U. of Toronto Press, 2000) was cited today
by Margaret Soltan (in the link below) as the source of this quotation —
"When one thinks of the general sort of snacky
under-earnest writers whose works like wind-chimes
rattle in our heads now, it is easier to forgive Lowry
his pretentious seriousness, his old-fashioned ambitions,
his Proustian plans, [his efforts] to replace the reader’s
consciousness wholly with a black magician’s."
A possible source, Perle Epstein, for the view of Lowry as black magician —
Part II: Mythos and Logos
Part I above suggests a review of Adam Gopnik as black magician
(a figure from Mythos ) —
— and of an opposing figure from Logos ,
Paul B. Yale, in the references below:
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"Denn die Welt braucht ewig die Wahrheit,
also braucht sie ewig Heraklit:
obschon er ihrer nicht bedarf.
Was geht ihn sein Ruhm an?
Der Ruhm bei »immer fortfließenden Sterblichen!«,
wie er höhnisch ausruft.
Sein Ruhm geht die Menschen etwas an, nicht ihn,
die Unsterblichkeit der Menschheit braucht ihn,
nicht er die Unsterblichkeit des Menschen Heraklit.
Das, was er schaute, die Lehre vom Gesetz im Werden
und vom Spiel in der Notwendigkeit , muß von jetzt
ab ewig geschaut werden: er hat von diesem größten
Schauspiel den Vorhang aufgezogen."
Logos for Philosophers
(Suggested by Modal Logic) —
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Monday, December 4, 2017
See also The Crimson Abyss (March 29, 2017).
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Sunday, August 13, 2017
In memoriam —
Zadeh is known for the unfortunate phrase "fuzzy logic."
Not-so-fuzzy related material —
“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be
purely logical. Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense,
were the rules of its pure logic?”
—Many Dimensions (1931), by Charles Williams
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017
From Balboa Press —
More than a pretty face designed to identify a product, a logo combines powerful elements super boosted with sophisticated branding techniques. Logos spark our purchasing choice and can affect our wellbeing.
Lovingly detailed, researched and honed to deliver a specific intention, a logo contains a unique dynamic that sidesteps our conscious mind. We might not know why we prefer one product over another but the logo, designed to connect the heart of the brand to our own hearts, plays a vital part in our decision to buy.
The power of symbols to sway us has been recognised throughout history. Found in caves and in Egyptian temples they are attributed with the strength to foretell and create the future, connect us with the divine and evoke emotions, from horror to ecstasy, at a glance. The new symbols we imbue with these awesome powers are our favourite brand logos.
• Discover the unconscious effect of these modern symbols that thrust our most successful global corporations into the limelight and our lives.
• Learn to make informed choices about brands.
• Find out how a logo reflects the state of the brand and holds it to account.
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The date of the above remarks on a logo change, March 24, 2016,
suggests a review of a Log24 post from that date —
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016
From RIP, a post of Wednesday, March 16, 2016 —
See also earlier posts tagged Sermon Weekend.
From Balboa Press —
More than a pretty face designed to identify a product, a logo combines powerful elements super boosted with sophisticated branding techniques. Logos spark our purchasing choice and can affect our wellbeing.
Lovingly detailed, researched and honed to deliver a specific intention, a logo contains a unique dynamic that sidesteps our conscious mind. We might not know why we prefer one product over another but the logo, designed to connect the heart of the brand to our own hearts, plays a vital part in our decision to buy.
The power of symbols to sway us has been recognised throughout history. Found in caves and in Egyptian temples they are attributed with the strength to foretell and create the future, connect us with the divine and evoke emotions, from horror to ecstasy, at a glance. The new symbols we imbue with these awesome powers are our favourite brand logos.
• Discover the unconscious effect of these modern symbols that thrust our most successful global corporations into the limelight and our lives.
• Learn to make informed choices about brands.
• Find out how a logo reflects the state of the brand and holds it to account.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2016
"Logos and logic, crystal hypothesis,
Incipit and a form to speak the word
And every latent double in the word…."
— Wallace Stevens,
"Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,"
Section I, Canto VIII
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Saturday, June 4, 2016
Thursday, April 7, 2016
For related rotations, see
"Turn your head around."
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Saturday, March 19, 2016
Click image for further details.
* Title adapted from a film released on Jan. 8, 2010.
See also this journal on that date.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2016
For related episodes, see previous posts tagged "The Fit."
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Saturday, January 9, 2016
Charlize Theron in “Young Adult” (2011) —
Related material for older adults: Ravenna and Nietzsche.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
The Santa Fe Institute logo, together with the previous post,
suggests a review of Whirligig and Quaternion for Goldstein.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
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Monday, February 11, 2013
In memory of Rabbi David Hartman, who died yesterday.
The architecture is by Lou Gelehrter.
I do not know the logo designer's name.
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Sunday, October 21, 2012
In memory of Leonard Shlain, author
of The Alphabet Versus the Goddess
Alphabet logo from the website
of a religious publishing company—
A logo for Charlize Theron, who played
a goddess figure in "Hancock"—
Click images for further details.
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
(Continued from December 26th, 2011)
Some material at math.stackexchange.com related to
yesterday evening's post on Elementary Finite Geometry—
Questions on this topic have recently been
discussed at Affine plane of order 4? and at
Turning affine planes into projective planes.
(For a better discussion of the affine plane of order 4,
see Affine Planes and Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares
at the website of William Cherowitzo, professor at UC Denver.)
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
"The universe, then, is less intimation
than cipher: a mask rather than a revelation
in the romantic sense. Does love meet with love?
Do we receive but what we give? The answer is
surely a paradox, the paradox that there are
Platonic universals beyond, but that the glass
is too dark to see them. Is there a light beyond
the glass, or is it a mirror only to the self?
The Platonic cave is even darker than Plato
made it, for it introduces the echo, and so
leaves us back in the world of men, which does
not carry total meaning, is just
a story of events."
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Monday, July 30, 2012
Related material:
Frank J. Prial on the late singer Tony Martin—
— and, on Jan. 1, 2005, on beverage marketing:
Every picture tells a story.
Happy birthday to Hilary Swank.
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Pentagram design agency on the new Windows 8 logo—
"… the logo re-imagines the familiar four-color symbol
as a modern geometric shape"—
Sam Moreau, Principal Director of User Experience for Windows,
yesterday—
On Redesigning the Windows Logo—
"To see what is in front of one's nose
needs a constant struggle." —George Orwell
That is the feeling we had when Paula Scher
(from the renowned Pentagram design agency)
showed us her sketches for the new Windows logo.
Related material:
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Click logos for related persons.
Some related news.
Background from this journal—
Collegiality, That Hideous Strength , and The Oxford Murders .
See also…
"The heart of the book is the conveying of a meaningful understanding
of where mathematical results originated…."
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Monday, December 26, 2011
Click images for context.
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Friday, November 4, 2011
Continued from All Hallows Eve…
The Belgian Lottery logo—
The Belgian Lottery was a sponsor of
last month's 25th Solvay Conference —
"The Theory of the Quantum World,"
Brussels, October 19-22, 2011.
See also this journal in October and Change Logos—
(Physicists will recognize the kinship
with the coat of arms of Niels Bohr.)
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Monday, October 31, 2011
From Sean D. Kelly, chairman of Harvard's philosophy department, on Oct. 13, 2011—
"What I’m looking for at the moment is a good reference from Plato to make it clear how he understands the term. I remember that in the Thaeatetus there is discussion of knowledge as true belief with logos, and a natural account here might count logos as something like rational justification or explanation. And perhaps Glaukon’s request in the Republic for an explanation or account (logos) of the claim that Justice is a good in itself is a clue. But there must be other places where the term appears in Plato. Does anyone have them?"
See instances of logos under "Pl." (Plato) and "Id." (Idem ) in Liddell and Scott's A Greek-English Lexicon —
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=lo/gos .
(See also Liddell and Scott's "General List of Abbreviations"—
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Asection%3D5 .)
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Saturday, June 26, 2010
"The present study is closely connected with a lecture* given by Prof. Ernst Cassirer at the Warburg Library whose subject was 'The Idea of the Beautiful in Plato's Dialogues'…. My investigation traces the historical destiny of the same concept…."
* See Cassirer's Eidos und Eidolon : Das Problem des Schönen und der Kunst in Platons Dialogen, in Vorträge der Bibliothek Warburg II, 1922/23 (pp. 1–27). Berlin and Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1924.
— Erwin Panofsky, Idea: A Concept in Art Theory, foreword to the first German edition, Hamburg, March 1924
On a figure from Plato's Meno—
The above figures illustrate Husserl's phrase "eidetic variation"—
a phrase based on Plato's use of eidos, a word
closely related to the word "idea" in Panofsky's title.
For remarks by Cassirer on the theory of groups, a part of
mathematics underlying the above diamond variations, see
his "The Concept of Group and the Theory of Perception."
Sketch of some further remarks—
The Waterfield question in the sketch above
is from his edition of Plato's Theaetetus
(Penguin Classics, 1987).
The "design theory" referred to in the sketch
is that of graphic design, which includes the design
of commercial logos. The Greek word logos
has more to do with mathematics and theology.
"If there is one thread of warning that runs
through this dialogue, from beginning to end,
it is that verbal formulations as such are
shot through with ambiguity."
— Rosemary Desjardins, The Rational Enterprise:
Logos in Plato's Theaetetus, SUNY Press, 1990
Related material—
(Click to enlarge.)
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Saturday, April 20, 2024
From posts tagged Night Hunt —
"When the men on the chessboard
get up and tell you where to go . . ."
Sunday, March 31, 2024
I do not know what the serpent in Marcela Nowak's
latest work in progress means to her.
To me, it suggests the Didion logo.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
From an Instagram ad today —
See also this meaning of "manifest" in Sphere —
novel by Michael Crichton, film by Barry Levinson.
Related material —
"Program or be programmed."
— A saying by the author of the above graphic novel.
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Monday, March 25, 2024
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024
The phrase "one of a kind malfunction" from the previous post
suggested the title of this post.
For what that title might mean, see remarks on the concept
"beauty bare" in posts tagged The Utrecht Models.
An illustration from those posts —
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* Ray-circle. See an image search.
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Saturday, February 24, 2024
The Chinese concept of li in yesterday's post "Logos" is related,
if only by metaphor, to the underlying form (sets of "line diagrams")
of patterns in the Cullinane diamond theorem:
"But very possibly the earliest use of li is the one instance that
it appears in the Classic of Poetry (Ode 210) where it refers to
the borders or boundary lines marking off areas in a field.
Here it appears in conjunction with chiang and is explained
as 'to divide into lots (or parcels of land)' (fen-ti )."
— P. 33 of "Li Revisited and Other Explorations"
by Allen Wittenborn, Bulletin of Sung and Yüan Studies
No. 17 (1981), pp. 32-48 (17 pages),
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23497457.
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Monday, February 19, 2024
From Log24 on September 19, 2023 —
Adapted image —
Related reading —
Related art — Square Round and Round Square.
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Monday, January 29, 2024
Google search result:
Imago Dei in Thomas Aquinas
Saint Anselm College
https://www.anselm.edu › Documents › Brown
PDF
by M Brown · 2014 · Cited by 14 — Thomas insists that the image of God exists most perfectly in the acts of the soul, for the soul is that which is most perfect in us and so best images God, and …
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For a Douglas Hofstadter version of the Imago Dei , see the
"Gödel, Escher, Bach" illustration in the Jan. 15 screenshot below —
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Recommended— an online book—
Flight from Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory,
by Steven Cassedy, U. of California Press, 1990.
See in particular
Pages 156-157—
Valéry saw the mind as essentially a relational system whose operation he attempted to describe in the language of group mathematics. “Every act of understanding is based on a group,” he says (C, 1:331). “My specialty—reducing everything to the study of a system closed on itself and finite” (C, 19: 645). The transformation model came into play, too. At each moment of mental life the mind is like a group, or relational system, but since mental life is continuous over time, one “group” undergoes a “transformation” and becomes a different group in the next moment. If the mind is constantly being transformed, how do we account for the continuity of the self? Simple; by invoking the notion of the invariant. And so we find passages like this one: “The S[elf] is invariant, origin, locus or field, it’s a functional property of consciousness” (C, 15:170 [2: 315]). Just as in transformational geometry, something remains fixed in all the projective transformations of the mind’s momentary systems, and that something is the Self (le Moi, or just M, as Valéry notates it so that it will look like an algebraic variable). Transformation theory is all over the place. “Mathematical science . . . reduced to algebra, that is, to the analysis of the transformations of a purely differential being made up of homogeneous elements, is the most faithful document of the properties of grouping, disjunction, and variation in the mind” (O, 1:36). “Psychology is a theory of transformations, we just need to isolate the invariants and the groups” (C, 1:915). “Man is a system that transforms itself” (C, 2:896).
Notes:
O Paul Valéry, Oeuvres (Paris: Pléiade, 1957-60)
C Valéry, Cahiers, 29 vols. (Paris: Centre National de le Recherche Scientifique, 1957-61)
Compare Jung’s image in Aion of the Self as a four-diamond figure:
and Cullinane’s purely geometric four-diamond figure:
For a natural group of 322,560 transformations acting on the latter figure, see the diamond theorem.
What remains fixed (globally, not pointwise) under these transformations is the system of points and hyperplanes from the diamond theorem.
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Sunday, January 21, 2024
Continued.
The Log24 tag Verwandlungslehre suggests a look at the logo
of Goethe Institute —
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024
https://subslikescript.com/movie/Hurlyburly-119336 —
So what do you want to do?
You want to go to your place,
you want to go to my place?
You want to go to a sex motel?
They got waterbeds.
They got porn
on the in-house video.
I'm hungry.
You want a Jack-in-the-Box?
I love Jack-in-the-Box.
Is that code for something?
What?
What? Is what code for what?
I don't know.
I don't know the goddamn code!
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The Didion Logo:
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code
is like staring into the sun.”
— Richard Evan Schwartz
See as well a discussion of
Meta's new (2023) Threads logo,
illustrated below.
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Monday, January 1, 2024
The Des Moines Register 2018 story pictured at lower right in
the previous post featured one Molly Vincent. A holiday greeting
on her LinkedIn page leads to . . .
Also on the above YouTube date —
Related reading — "Weird Pharaonic Monument" —
"Before time began, there was the Cube." — Optimus Prime
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Friday, December 29, 2023
A post of Dec. 27 featured the internet threads.net logo below . . .
"In American English the @ can be used to add information about
a sporting event. Where opposing sports teams have their names
separated by a "v" (for versus), the away team can be written first –
and the normal "v" replaced with @ to convey at which team's home
field the game will be played." — Wikipedia
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Wednesday, December 27, 2023
* See that term in this journal.
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Friday, December 8, 2023
The logo of a venue whose motto is
"Reality is not enough."
Related conceptual art —
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Monday, November 27, 2023
See David G. Poole, "The Stochastic Group,"
American Mathematical Monthly, volume 102, number 9
(November, 1995), pages 798–801.
* This post was suggested by the phrase "The Diamond Theorem,
also known as the von Neumann-Birkhoff conjecture" in a
ChatGPT-3.5 hallucination today.
That phrase suggests a look at the Birkhoff-von Neumann theorem:
The B.-von N. theorem suggests a search for analogous results
over finite fields. That search yields the Poole paper above,
which is related to my own "diamond theorem" via affine groups.
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Thursday, November 2, 2023
For All Souls' Day —
T. S. Eliot — "… intersection of the timeless with time …."
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Monday, October 23, 2023
"All things serve the Beamery."
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Friday, September 22, 2023
For the purpose of defining figurate geometry , a figurate space might be
loosely described as any space consisting of finitely many congruent figures —
subsets of Euclidean space such as points, line segments, squares,
triangles, hexagons, cubes, etc., — that are permuted by some finite group
acting upon them.
Thus each of the five Platonic solids constructed at the end of Euclid's Elements
is itself a figurate space, considered as a collection of figures — vertices, edges,
faces — seen in the nineteenth century as acted upon by a group of symmetries .
More recently, the 4×6 array of points (or, equivalently, square cells) in the Miracle
Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis is also a figurate space . The relevant group of
symmetries is the large Mathieu group M24 . That group may be viewed as acting
on various subsets of a 24-set… for instance, the 759 octads that are analogous
to the faces of a Platonic solid. The geometry of the 4×6 array was shown by
Curtis to be very helpful in describing these 759 octads.
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Thursday, September 21, 2023
Graphic design from April 1, 2018 —
Later, in 2019 —
An undated webpage says . . .
"…we’re officially announcing the launch of the new Beamery brand."
— https://beamery.com/resources/blogs/
were-launching-beamerys-new-brand
(metadata: itemprop="datePublished"
content="2019-11-20T19:00:00")
This logo design was described elsewhere —
"Beamery's new mark–The Bexa.
The Bexa contains the negative space
of 3 Bs rotating clockwise within a
hexagon shape to capture Beamery's
3 pillars of the Talent Operating System."
— Ben Stafford for Focus Lab
"All things serve the Beamery."
— Slogan adapted from Stephen King.
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This flashback to March 7, 2022,
was suggested by a marrific date.
Fans of metadata may consult, in this journal,
the above metadata date — November 20, 2019.
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Tuesday, September 19, 2023
From Log24 on August 29, 2023 —
From the above Foundation website —
This journal on the above Foundation date — 13 July 2023 —
For an attempt of my own at storytelling and
brand innovation, see posts now tagged
Figurate Geometry.
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Thursday, September 7, 2023
“ 'Harmonious Resonance' is a art piece that
captures the iconic Rolling Stones logo . . . ."
— Marcela Nowak describes her work at
https://marcelanowak.com/port/harmonious-resonance/ .
See as well The Billboard Project and the billboards of
the new Rolling Stones video "Angry."
"Don't get angry with me
I never caused you no pain
I won't be angry with you
But I can't see straight (Yeah)"
— https://genius.com/The-rolling-stones-angry-lyrics
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Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Another Web debut by talented artist Marcela Nowak —
Click the above profile for images of the art itself.
Related verbiage:
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="Spare+OOM"
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Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Monday, August 14, 2023
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Friday, August 11, 2023
"You show me your control panel and I'll show you mine."
"Where past and future are gathered" — T. S. Eliot
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Saturday, July 29, 2023
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Friday, July 28, 2023
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Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Frendo, Maria —
T.S. Eliot and
the music of poetry
Durham theses, Durham University, 1999
"Taking into consideration the Symbolist influence,
together with his preoccupation with language
and his interest in the musical quality inherent
in verse, one finds that Eliot's verse contains
a rhythmic movement that tends to sweep across
the whole line and links lines and stanzas together.
His is a language that is highly charged with
a harmonic resonance and a certain distancing
and abstracting which makes the reference
more universal, less specifically personal."
"Where past and future are gathered" — T. S. Eliot
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"Minimalists are actually extreme hoarders:
they hoard space." — Douglas Coupland,
quoted here on May 18, 2017
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Tuesday, June 20, 2023
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Related reading — Oxford … Harvard.
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Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Logos —
Logos** —
* See an interview.
** See other posts tagged Triangle.graphics.
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Thursday, May 4, 2023
A different "Intelligencer" logo —
See my own remarks in the mathematical Intelligencer.
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Sunday, April 23, 2023
“She never looked up while her mind rotated the facts,
trying to see them from all sides, trying to piece them
together into theory. All she could think was that she
was flunking an IQ test.”
— Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty
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The logo of MUSE, the band —
A logo I prefer . . .
Related material from a post of October 2020 —
Related material from a post on the above Reddit date —
A Story That Works
“There is the dark, eternally silent, unknown universe;
there are the friend-enemy minds shouting and whispering
their tales and always seeking the three miracles —
-
that minds should really touch, or
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that the silent universe should speak, tell minds a story,
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or (perhaps the same thing) that there should be a story
that works, that is all hard facts, all reality, with
no illusions and no fantasy;
and lastly, there is lonely, story-telling, wonder-questing,
mortal me.”
– Fritz Leiber in “The Button Molder“
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Friday, April 21, 2023
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Thursday, April 20, 2023
Some context —
See as well . . .
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Tuesday, April 18, 2023
From May 19, 2010 —
Meanwhile . . .
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Friday, March 31, 2023
Data:
"The rockers said via their record label:
'It is with the deepest sadness that we must
announce the passing of the lyricist Keith Reid,
who died suddenly on 23 March 2023,
in hospital in London. He had been receiving
cancer treatment for the past couple of years.
Keith was the co-founder and lyricist for the band
Procol Harum, notably penning their biggest hit
A Whiter Shade of Pale, which contains some of
the most enigmatic lyrics of all time.' "
— https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/
breaking-procol-harums-keith-reid-29586101
Metadata:
A note from Log24 on the above March 23 date —
The above Del Shannon upload date
was November 1, 2021 — All Saints' Day.
Synchronicity check —
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Related literature —
"The Birds Who Flew Beyond Time
is inspired by the great Persian poet
Farid ud-Din Attar's classic
twelfth-century allegory
The Conference of the Birds."
— Front jacket of The Birds Who Flew Beyond Time ,
by Anne Baring, with pictures by Thetis Blacker, first
published by Barefoot Books Ltd. in Bristol, 1993.
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Blocking Groups —
A Harvard phrase for a process analogous
to that of the Hogwarts Sorting Hat.
Hat tip to IG's @marrific:
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Saturday, March 18, 2023
Kitty in Uncanny X-Men #168 (April 1983)
"Try Bing Chat, Kitty."
* A Harvard phrase for a process analogous to that of the Hogwarts Sorting Hat.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Images from posts tagged Fire Water —
Scholium —
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Sunday, February 26, 2023
Monday, February 6, 2023
You, Xi-lin; Zhang, Peter. "Interality in Heidegger."
The Free Library , April 1, 2015.
. . . .
The term "interology" is meant as an interventional alternative to traditional Western ontology. The idea is to help shift people's attention and preoccupation from subjects, objects, and entities to the interzones, intervals, voids, constitutive grounds, relational fields, interpellative assemblages, rhizomes, and nothingness that lie between, outside, or beyond the so-called subjects, objects, and entities; from being to nothing, interbeing, and becoming; from self-identicalness to relationality, chance encounters, and new possibilities of life; from "to be" to "and … and … and …" (to borrow Deleuze's language); from the actual to the virtual; and so on. As such, the term wills nothing short of a paradigm shift. Unlike other "logoi," which have their "objects of study," interology studies interality, which is a non-object, a no-thing that in-forms and constitutes the objects and things studied by other logoi.
. . . .
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Some remarks from this journal on April 1, 2015 —
The above site, finitegeometry.org/sc, illustrates how the symmetry
of various visual patterns is explained by what Zhang calls "interality."
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Sunday, February 5, 2023
A Logo for Riri —
The above Nick Romano passage is from Knock on Any Door,
a 1947 novel by Willard Motley. Another Motley novel about
Chicago, from 1958 . . .
Let No Man Write My Epitaph —
Page 41
The city was a blue-black panther that slunk along beside them. The tall, skyscraper night-grass hemmed them in. The thousand neon animal eyes watched their going.
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The blue-black panther of a city watched their going. The un- blinking neon animal eyes watched their going. Thousands of neon signs lit their way. In an alley behind West Madison Street half an
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hour before, a bum, drunk, had frozen to death lying in the back doorway of a pawnshop. The blue-black panther crouched over him.
Page 70
First the creak of ice as an automobile goes by. Then the frown into your room of the red brick building across the street, its windows frosted over like cold, unfriendly eyes. Then a bum stumbling along trying to keep warm. Now a drunk, unevenly. And the wind like the howling voice of the blue-black panther, hunting, finding. And the clanging of impersonal streetcars. And each bar of neon, cold, dead. No message. The clown takes his bow and it is Christmas Day.
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The blue-black panther followed them, sniffing at their heels.
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Above them the blue-black panther lay on the roof of a tenement house, its feline chin on the cornice, its yellow-green eyes staring down onto the black night street of Maxwell. Its tail, wagging slowly back and forth, was like a lasso, a noose, sending little shivers of pebbles rolling loosely across the roof.
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Then he went down to the Shillelagh Club. Through the pane, in the crowded, noisy place, he saw her. She was sitting at a table near the back, alone. Her cigarette had fallen from her lips and rolled away from her on the table top. It had burned itself to a long gray ash. Her head hung loosely on her neck as if she was asleep. A half-empty glass of beer was in front of her. Please, Mother, please come out, he prayed to her. And he stood next door to the tavern, waiting, his small shoulders drawn in, his head down in shame. And often he walked to the window and stood on tiptoe. She was still there. In the same position. He waited. He would be late to school tomorrow. He waited, keeping the long vigil. He waited. Twelve years old. And the thousand neon-animal eyes stared at him savagely. He waited. The blue-black panther lashed out its tail, flicking its furry tip against his ankles. He waited.
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Alongside the blue-black patrol wagon the blue-black panther walks majestically.
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Outside the door the blue-black panther rubs its back like a house cat.
Page 409
Nick held the cigarette listlessly. The smoke curled up his wrist and arm like a snake. The blue-black panther licked his hand.
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Saturday, February 4, 2023
For remarks more closely related to United States history,
see a Masonic view of the Phoenix.
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Monday, January 9, 2023
Evolution of an image . . .
( Not to be confused with The Tin Man’s Hat. )
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Sunday, January 1, 2023
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Thursday, December 15, 2022
For seekers of a "crazy Christmas knot" —
The commercial logo below may be viewed as
three in-folded Y-shaped orange forked tongues.
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Thursday, December 8, 2022
A related problem:
"What powers the Velvet Buzzsaw?"
Perhaps the Santa Fe Institute . . .
Logo of the Santa Fe Institute —
Perhaps Morf Vandewalt …
… Perhaps, as the above Hockney date suggests,
Louis Menand —
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