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Also not affiliated with the Church of Synchronology.
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Logo Design: “Proudly Serving the Twin Peaks Area”
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024
The ABC’s of Logos … Networks!
Today's previous post presented historic logos of
the ABC that is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
An exact quote from tonight's broadcast on an American
ABC network —
"I meet with people all the time who tell me,
can we please just have discourse about
how we're going to invest in the aspirations and
the ambitions and the dreams of the American people…."
— Blue Party candidate
Her debate opponent, the Red Party candidate,
might well have replied . . .
"I meet with people all the time who tell me,
I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!"
Related art from this journal:
The September 5 post Make Hollywood Sane Again —
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Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Monday, July 29, 2024
Logos
A hat tip to . . .
That post suggested . . .
The Source —
https://depositphotos.com/vectors/am.html?qview=157300120
and
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Monday, June 10, 2024
Art Logos
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Thursday, May 23, 2024
Logo Design: The Maltese Parrot
"The stuff that dreams are made of." — Bogart
But seriously . . .
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From OSF . . . Among the positions that take this independence even further is Susanne Langer's approach towards meaning. Long before Derrida, she suggested in her chapter "The logic of signs and symbols" that we should understand meaning not as a relation to an author at all. Influenced by music and musical notation, she defines meaning instead as the function of a term from which a pattern emerges:
It is better, perhaps, to say: "Meaning is not a Reference: Langer, Susanne K., 1948 [1954]. Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art. Mentor Book. |
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Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Design and Logos: March 13, 2024
See as well this journal on the above logo-design date —
March 13, 2024: Rearranging the Deck Chairs.
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Friday, May 3, 2024
Logos: Four Columns
Former logo of the American
Mathematical Society —
Note the resemblance to
Harvard's Memorial Church.
A rather different four-column logo —
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Friday, February 23, 2024
Logos
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
Friday, December 29, 2023
Logos and Branding: Wisconsin* Mystery Logo
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Friday, December 8, 2023
Raiders of the Lost Logos
Example —
Background —
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
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Friday, November 10, 2023
Logos
Related art —
(For some backstory, see Geometry of the I Ching
and the history of Chinese philosophy.)
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Altman’s Monster* Version of Musk’s Grok Logo
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Sunday, September 17, 2023
Logo
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
Sunday, May 7, 2023
Logos
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
The Diamantova Logo
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
Logos and Branding
The "branding" part of this post's title and tag —
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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 |
I prefer Modal Nietzsche.
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Geometric Theology: Logos vs. Antilogos
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: Beamery vs. Eightfold
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."
"A logo, a name, an idea: Meet the Bexa"
— 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
Star Wars: Logos
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
Star Logo for the Feast of St. Luke (Skywalker)
See Leiber in this journal.
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Friday, July 30, 2021
Logocentrism and the Syllable Between
See too "Page 293" in this journal.
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Friday, April 30, 2021
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Logocentric Citation
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
Sunday, December 27, 2020
Logo Animation
Related material from Log24 yesterday —
Click the Aquarius symbol for a puzzle.
A related animation —
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Sunday, September 6, 2020
Logo Note
This post was suggested by my Feedly tonight —
“Add note” — A constant Feedly suggestion.
OK . . .
— Images from The Hogwash Papers
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Logo Detail
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Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Logo
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 —
“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
Halloween Logos for MIT
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
Logos
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:
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Thursday, September 12, 2019
Art Logos …
… 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
Sunday, August 25, 2019
Saturday, July 6, 2019
Mythos and Logos
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
Monday, March 4, 2019
Davos Logos
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
Logos
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
Logos
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
Monday, July 30, 2018
Adventures in Logology
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
Logos at Harvard
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
Philosophical Logos
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
Logos
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Sunday, April 1, 2018
Sunday, February 4, 2018
Logos for Sunday, February 4
"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
Logos
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
Mythos and Logos
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 ) —
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Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Polarities and Correlation
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— and of an opposing figure from Logos ,
Paul B. Yale, in the references below:
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Logos (Continued)
"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
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Logos
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
Logos Review
From Balboa Press —
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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. |
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
Logos
From RIP, a post of Wednesday, March 16, 2016 —
See also earlier posts tagged Sermon Weekend.
From Balboa Press —
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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
"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
Saturday, March 19, 2016
The Logorium of Doctor Parnassus*
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
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Logos
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Logos
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
Monday, February 11, 2013
Logo
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
Logos
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
Logos
(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
Logo
"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."
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."
– Betty Jay, reader's guide to A Passage to India
Judy Davis in the Marabar Caves
The above image is from this journal on Sunday, April 13, 2008.
The preceding cover of a book by Northrop Frye was suggested
by material in this journal from February 2003.
See also Yankee Puzzle and Doodle Dandy.
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Monday, July 30, 2012
Logos
Related material:
Frank J. Prial on the late singer Tony Martin—
— and, on Jan. 1, 2005, on beverage marketing:
Happy birthday to Hilary Swank.
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Logo
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:
- A Four-Color Theorem,
- The Galois Window, and
-
An illustration from
Finite Geometry of the Square and Cube—
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Logos
Click logos for related persons.
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
Friday, November 4, 2011
Logos
Continued from All Hallows Eve…
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
Logos at Harvard
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
Plato’s Logos
"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—
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Featured
A Facebook post from this afternoon . . .
Log Cabin Republicans may prefer the SNL snark of . . .
See a post of December 4, 2011 — Code Wars.
Friday, November 15, 2024
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Group Theory: The Romance of Alias and Alibi*
Alias:
Victor at 194 Tower Avenue in "The Penguin"
Alibi:
Marcela_234 at Likewise.com
Romance in Numberland:
* Technical terms from pure mathematics —
For scholia on "the cube is being moved around," vide . . .
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="Stack+Exchange" .
Saturday, November 2, 2024
The Hellman-McCarthy Vocabulary Lesson
Related art notes —
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Sunday, October 6, 2024
For New York Times Fans*
Who Prefer Witchcraft to Reason
* See Fire Temple as well as the previous post and . . .
Letters to Goya, by James Magee, October 5, 2019.
(That 2019 Magee performance was at The Crowley Theater
in Marfa . . . NOT named for Aleister Crowley.)
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Who Prefer Witchcraft to Reason
Who Prefer Witchcraft to Reason
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
The Turning
For related rotations, see
"Turn your head around."
(Now tagged as "The Turning")
Related geometric meditations —
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Thursday, September 19, 2024
An Old Star Vehicle: Bringing Up Princeton
Brooke Shields at the 2024 Tony awards —
"As the newly elected president of Actors Equity Association,
I am so proud to be here to celebrate the entire theatrical community,"
the actress, 59, said." — People online, June 16, 2024 11:13 PM EDT
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Saturday, August 24, 2024
Language Game for Harlan Kane:
The Mountain Fountain
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The Mountain Fountain
The Mountain Fountain
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Day of the Locus: Also Sprach Zartaloudis
From Thanos Zartaloudis —
“The Experience of Migration: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis,”
On Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 10 (2020) —
"To paraphrase Roland Barthes, the ancient soothsayer
'speaks the locus of meaning but does not name it,'
while the modern metaphoric-apotropaic subject
'names it but does not speak of its locus.' 12
12 Roland Barthes, “The Structuralist Activity,” in:
Critical Essays, transl. by Richard Howard
(Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1972),
213–220, here: 219."
A related locus:
"For Times Square Church," Steven H. Cullinane, Log24 , Feb. 6, 2018.
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Saturday, August 3, 2024
My Teen Space . . . Continues
See also other posts now tagged Teen Space.
The Cash Box logo at top left suggests a look at
another version of the Liberty Head Dime.
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Saturday, July 20, 2024
Hillbilly Geometry
For Captain Maybelline*
"Your life, little girl, is an empty page . . . ." — Song lyric
* A reference to a New Yorker cartoon of July 18, 2024.
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For Captain Maybelline*
For Captain Maybelline*
Monday, July 8, 2024
Saturday, June 22, 2024
O Carina
From a 2016 graphic novel by Douglas Rushkoff —
See as well . . .
https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/Triforce and Galois Rhyme.
Related reading:
In that 2016 Rushkoff book, vide the foreword, dated March 1, 2016 …
and, from that same date in this journal, posts tagged Buttressed.
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Friday, June 21, 2024
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
The Brand
The Source :
<span data-timeago="2015-03-13T21:38:56Z">9 years ago</span>
More recently, a view of a location I walked by yesterday —
"First important note: this isn't a final redesign of the site!"
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Saturday, May 18, 2024
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Night Hunt … Continues.
From posts tagged Night Hunt —
"When the men on the chessboard
get up and tell you where to go . . ."
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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
“Manifest” as Magick Verb
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
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
One of a Kind Function: The Utrecht Strahlenkreis*
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
Li
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
Fulcrum
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
Self as Imago Dei: Hofstadter vs. Valéry
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Google search result: Saint Anselm College https://www.anselm.edu › Documents › Brown 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 … 11 pages |
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
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Sunday, January 21, 2024
Intake Manifold . . .
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Hurly Burly: Code for Something
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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 a sex motel? They got waterbeds.
They got porn 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! |
The Didion Logo:
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code
is like staring into the sun.”
See as well a discussion of
Meta's new (2023) Threads logo,
illustrated below.
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Monday, January 1, 2024
Molly’s Date
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
The Fandom Thread
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
Red Dot Award for Vernissage*
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Friday, December 8, 2023
Viva Las Vegas!
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Monday, November 27, 2023
Birkhoff-von Neumann Symmetry* over Finite Fields
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
No Joke
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Saturday, April 21, 2018 A Getty logo —
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For All Souls' Day —
T. S. Eliot — "… intersection of the timeless with time …."
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Monday, October 23, 2023
For the Church of Stephen King
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Friday, September 22, 2023
Figurate Space
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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Monday, August 14, 2023
Saturday, July 29, 2023
Friday, July 28, 2023
To Phrase a Coin
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Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
“A Mad Day’s Work” (Hat tip to Pierre Cartier)*
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Thursday, May 4, 2023
For Blacklist Fans: The Intelligencers
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Sunday, April 23, 2023
The Rotated Muse
“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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Muse Variations
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 —
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A Story That Works
“There is the dark, eternally silent, unknown universe;
and lastly, there is lonely, story-telling, wonder-questing, – Fritz Leiber in “The Button Molder“ |
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