From a bondage search . . .
“Loitering in Lara’s dressing room, she tries on
the faux-bondage harness she picked up in London….”
From Geometry for Belgium —
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Of London Bondage … continues.
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Saturday, May 11, 2024
London Death
In memory of a woman advertising pioneer who
reportedly died at 95 today in London —
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Friday, January 26, 2024
For London Werewolves: Steppenwolf and the Moon Knights
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Thursday, September 28, 2023
Orwell’s Up and In in Paris and London
See the previous post and London Bondage.
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Thursday, September 7, 2023
Going to London: John Adams’ Harmonielehre at Trafalgar Square
For the relentlessly artsy-fartsy at the Santa Fe Institute…
Continued from remarks on Schoenberg on March 10, 2001 —
"First movement from John Adams’ Harmonielehre conducted by
Sir Simon Rattle, performed at BMW Classics, which took place
in Trafalgar Square on Saturday, 10 June 2023." — YouTube
Also on 10 June 2023 —
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Friday, February 3, 2023
Nevermore Academy Meets the London School
"Intended for a white European male audience, the sensual
reclining nude belongs to a long artistic tradition."
— The Courtauld Gallery on Gaugin's "Nevermore" (1897)
"After decades abroad, Mr Doig has returned again to London.
On February 10th he opens a new exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery ….
The Courtauld is also the home of Britain’s finest Impressionist collection,
and some of the paintings in the new show recall and respond to those works.
A depiction of an alpinist by Mr Doig speaks to Paul Cézanne’s view of
Lake Annecy, a tropical bather . . . gestures at Paul Gauguin’s nude
'Nevermore'."
— https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/02/02/
look-closely-at-peter-doigs-paintings-then-look-again
The London School of Economics has a more direct approach to art —
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Thursday, January 19, 2023
Of London Bondage . . .
In 2007, April 30 — Walpurgisnacht — was the
release date of the "Back to Black" single . . .
A related music venue —
A related map —
This post was suggested by . . .
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Saturday, March 6, 2021
Monday, September 14, 2020
Shades (Of London Bondage continues)
“Loitering in Lara’s dressing room, she tries on
the faux-bondage harness she picked up in London….”
See as well . . .
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Thursday, September 10, 2020
Of London Bondage
"After years in hiding, latex fashion re-emerged in the late 1950s,
thanks to the British designer John Sutcliffe, who created the world’s
first catsuit – the prototype rubber-fetish garment. …
The 1960s British spy series The Avengers was monumental
in bringing rubberwear to the masses. The show’s feminist heroine,
Emma Peel (played by Diana Rigg), was styled in a latex, Sutcliffe-
inspired catsuit. With Peel as a media archetype, latex’s second-skin
look wasn’t just sexy, it was superhuman.
Sutcliffe capitalised on the obsession with his products, and founded
AtomAge Magazine in 1972. The periodical, filled with artful and erotic
bondage imagery, gained a huge following among fetishists, and made
quite the splash on London’s progressive fashion scene. "
— By Cassidy George, bbc.com, 8th January 2020
See also an image from a Log24 post on that date a year earlier—
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Sunday, December 4, 2016
London Recessional
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Monday, April 4, 2016
Noon for London
(A sequel to today's earlier posts Cube for Berlin and Midnight for Paris.)
See London in this journal.
That search yields …
“The more intellectual, less physical,
the spell of contemplation
the more complex must be the object,
the more close and elaborate
must be the comparison
the mind has to keep making
between the whole and the parts,
the parts and the whole.”
— The Journals and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins ,
ed. by Humphry House (London: Oxford University Press, 1959),
as quoted by Philip A. Ballinger in The Poem as Sacrament
(From the post The Inscape of 24, April 24, 2014. The 14 blocks in
the design S(3, 4, 8) of today's previous post are analogous to the 759
blocks in the design S(5, 8, 24).)
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Sunday, June 19, 2011
The London Piracy Project
My work has been pirated by an artist in London.
An organization there, AND Publishing, sponsors what it calls
"The Piracy Project." The artist's piracy was a contribution
to the project.
The above material now reflects the following update:
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UPDATE of June 21, 2011, 10:00 PM ET: The organization's weblog (a post for 19th June) In this weblog, changes have been made to correct my "AND Publishing is not sponsored by the art school. |
As this post originally stated…
The web pages from the site finitegeometry.org/sc that
the artist, Steve Richards, copied as part of his contribution to
the AND Publishing Piracy Project have had the author's name,
Steven H. Cullinane, and the date of composition systematically removed.
See a sample (jpg, 2.1 MB).
Here is some background on Richards.
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Friday, November 15, 2024
Art Tales
From a search in this journal for Arkani-Hamed —
This post was suggested by the title
"Visualizing a sacred city: London, art, and religion"
from today's 7 AM post.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Mimesis: The Auerbach Variations
Vide an Auerbach Bacchus and Ariadne .
As damned nightmares go, I prefer a more literary Auerbach.
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
End Game Vision
The Big Reveal
By Adam Gopnik
February 27, 2012
The New Yorker
Gopnik says that a female figure from the Book of Revelation,
"The Big Reveal,"
"suggests the women evangelists who were central
to Paul’s version of the movement and anathema
to a pious Jew like John. She is the original
shiksa goddess."
Related imagery —
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Wednesday, August 14, 2024
For Anne Carson
From an essay by Carson in London Review of Books,
Vol. 46 No. 16 · 15 August 2024 —
"Handwriting is a mark from inside me
that I put outside me, often with a view
to showing, telling, communicating.
It carries what Gerard Manley Hopkins
calls ‘the inscape’ out.
(Note: Hopkins meant several different things
by ‘inscape’, which I don’t know enough
about his psyche or his poetics to represent here,
but those Dublin notebooks – wow!)"
For a rather different use of "inscape," see a Log24 search.
Some related mathematics, via a beta version of ChatGPT Search —
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Thursday, June 13, 2024
De la Mancha
Anil Gomes in London Review of Books issue dated 20 June 2024 —
"The wish to pull narratives together into
a unified whole is often quixotic."
Steven H. Cullinane in Log24 , 8 June 2024 —
As for the LRB title's "tillosophy," a word coined by the dead academic
under review, see "boustrophedonic" in this journal.
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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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Saturday, May 18, 2024
The Godfather’s Art
Cover illustration:
Spies returning from the land of
Canaan with a cluster of grapes.
Colored woodcut from
Biblia Sacra Germanica ,
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1483.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Related material —
The Faustus Square :
Design from 1514
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Among the Positions
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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. |
Related art . . .
Cover illustration:
Spies returning from the land of
Canaan with a cluster of grapes.
Colored woodcut from
Biblia Sacra Germanica ,
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1483.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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Friday, May 17, 2024
New Key
"I've got a brand new pair of roller skates,
you've got a brand new key." — Song lyric
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From OSF . . . "According to Derrida, to break with its original context and with its situation of production entirely is the ability of, and even a necessity for, the written. With this argument, Derrida moves the author and their communicative intent to the margins and frees up space to approach meaning from another side, stressing the independence of writing from its speaker. 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 Langer's approach towards meaning as a function puts the relation to other terms in the foreground, the pattern a term is part of and linked to. From her perspective, strongly informed by thinking of meaning-making in music, this seems obvious. In music, no note holds meaning for itself. It is in the relation between notes that meaning emerges, and Large Language Models approach language in a similar manner." 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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Saturday, April 13, 2024
Still-Point Architecture
… And who said "At the still point, there the dance is"?
From the Netflix series "3 Body Problem."
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Saturday, February 10, 2024
Gilded Cage Meets Crimson Abyss
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Thursday, January 25, 2024
The Much-Needed Gap
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Prospero's Children was first published by HarperCollins,
"This is English fantasy at its finest. Prospero’s Children |
"… as if into a crimson abyss …." —
Related material in this journal: Weaveworld.
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Friday, November 17, 2023
“Design is How It Works” — Steve Jobs
In memory of a graphic-design figure who reportedly died
on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023 — images from a post on that date —
"The great aim is accurate, precise and definite description . . . . "
— T. E. Hulme, Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the
Philosophy of Art, ed. Herbert Read. London and New York:
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987. First published 1924.
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Classicism Continued: An Apotheosis of Modernity
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From Chapter 23, "Poetry," by Adam Parkes, in Writing in 1910–11, the English poet and critic T. E. Hulme claimed that the two major traditions in poetry, romanticism and classicism, were as different as a well and a bucket. According to the romantic party, Hulme explained, humankind is “intrinsically good, spoilt by circumstance”; that is, our nature is “a well, a reservoir full of possibilities.” For the classical party, however, human nature is “like a bucket”; it is “intrinsically limited, but disciplined by order and tradition to something fairly decent” (Hulme 1987: 117). But it was not only that romanticism and classicism were as dissimilar as a well and a bucket; their contents were different, too. To draw water from the well of romanticism was, in effect, to pour a “pot of treacle over the dinner table,” while the classical bucket was more likely to be full of little stones – or jewels, perhaps. Romanticism, in Hulme’s view, was the result of displaced religious fervor; it represented the return of religious instincts that the “perverted rhetoric of Rationalism” had suppressed, so that “concepts that are right and proper in their own sphere are spread over, and so mess up, falsify and blur the clear outlines of human experience” (Hulme 1987: 118). Classicism, by contrast, traded in dry goods – dry, hard goods, to be precise. Hulme left little doubt as to which side he was on. “It is essential to prove,” he argued, “that beauty may be in small, dry things. The great aim is accurate, precise and definite description. . . . I prophesy that a period of dry, hard, classical verse is coming” (Hulme 1987: 131–3). If by “dry, hard, classical verse” Hulme meant poems looking like the fragments of Sappho, he didn’t have to wait long to see his prophecy fulfilled.
The hard sand breaks,
Far off over the leagues of it, 228
playing on the wide shore, So wrote Hilda Doolittle in “Hermes of the Ways,” the first poem that she signed “H. D., Imagiste” at the behest of her fellow American expatriate Ezra Pound. From Pound’s perspective, the Imagist movement that he co-founded in 1912 with H. D. and the English poet Richard Aldington was finished well before the First World War began in August 1914; throughout this war-torn decade, however, Imagism continued to spawn the poetry of “small, dry things” whose coming Hulme had predicted a few years before. Indeed, modernist poets weren’t content merely to break down the extended heroic narratives – the “spilt religion,” as Hulme put it – of their treacly nineteenthcentury predecessors; they insisted on breaking down small things into ever-smaller particles and subparticles. This logic of disintegration is clearly at work in poems like “Hermes of the Ways,” where each line is metrically unique, creating a sense of perpetual freshness – an apotheosis of modernity, as it were. REFERENCE Hulme, T. E. (1987). Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art, ed. Herbert Read. London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul. First published 1924. |
Compare and contrast:
Jeremy Gray,
Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics,
Princeton University Press, first edition Sept. 22, 2008 —
"Here, modernism is defined as an autonomous body of ideas,
having little or no outward reference, placing considerable emphasis
on formal aspects of the work and maintaining a complicated—
indeed, anxious— rather than a naïve relationship with the
day-to-day world, which is the de facto view of a coherent group
of people, such as a professional or discipline-based group
that has a high sense of the seriousness and value of what it is
trying to achieve. This brisk definition…."
(Quoted at the webpage Solomon's Cube.)
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Friday, September 29, 2023
Cock Tail
Brian Harley in Mate in Two Moves:
“It is quite true that variation play is, in ninety-nine cases
out of a hundred, the soul of a problem, or (to put it more
materially) the main course of the solver’s banquet, but
the Key is the cocktail that begins the proceedings, and
if it fails in piquancy the following dinner is not so
satisfactory as it should be.”
(London, Bell & Sons. First edition, 1931.)
Related art from the 9/25 Log24 post Harvardwood Suggests —
The musical accompaniment to the TikTok cock is by Village People.
Related news from yesterday —
The Village Voice founder reportedly died on Wednesday, September 27, 2023.
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Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Former-Day Saint
"Birthday, death-day — what day is not both?" — Updike
The actor who played "Illya Kuryakin" reportedly died yesterday —
" David Keith McCallum Jr. was born on Sept. 19, 1933, into
a musical family in Glasgow. His father was the first violinist
for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London; his mother,
Dorothy Dorman, was a cellist. He would later tell interviewers
that his Scotch Presbyterian upbringing had left him emotionally
circumscribed.
'We Scots, we tend to be awfully tight inside,' he told TV Guide
in 1965. 'It has hurt me as an actor to be so — so naturally restricted.' "
— Leslie Kaufman in The New York Times
This journal on McCallum's 90th birthday — Sept. 19, 2023 —
"You take the high road and . . . ."
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Friday, July 7, 2023
CORE
The "CORE" reference in the previous post yields, via a search . . .
Within this thesis there are 19 references to the name "Cullinane"
and to my own work, cited as . . .
Cullinane, Steven H., ‘The Diamond Theorem’ (1979)
<http://diamondtheorem.com>
[accessed 6 May 2019]
––– ‘Geometry of the I Ching’ (1989)
<http://finitegeometry.org/sc/64/iching.html>
[accessed 6 May 2019].
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Monday, June 5, 2023
Vienna Requiem
"You put the lime in the coconut . . ."
Art is magic delivered from
the lie of being truth.
— Theodor Adorno, Minima moralia,
London, New Left Books, 1974, p. 222
(First published in German in 1951.)
The director, Carol Reed, makes…
impeccable use of the beauty of black….
— V. B. Daniel on The Third Man
I see your ironical smile.
— Hans Reichenbach
Adorno, The Third Man, and Reichenbach
are illustrated below (l. to r.) above the names of
cities with which they are associated.
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Friday, June 2, 2023
Reichenbach’s Fell Swoop
See The Eightfold Cube and . . .
Art is magic delivered from
the lie of being truth.
— Theodor Adorno, Minima moralia,
London, New Left Books, 1974, p. 222
(First published in German in 1951.)
The director, Carol Reed, makes…
impeccable use of the beauty of black….
— V. B. Daniel on The Third Man
I see your ironical smile.
— Hans Reichenbach
Adorno, The Third Man, and Reichenbach
are illustrated below (l. to r.) above the names of
cities with which they are associated.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2023
British Combinatorics 2023
"Martin told us about his work on machine learning…."
— Peter J. Cameron reports on last week's (May 10 and 11)
London Combinatorics Colloquia 2023.
Related material — Boolean Functions in this journal and in a book
from May 16, 2011 . . .
Some historical background on machine learning —
https://tripleampersand.org/kernelled-connections-perceptron-diagram/ .
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Saturday, April 8, 2023
Annals of Journalism
Update of 12:31 PM ET —
The time of this post, 12:27 PM ET,
suggests a 12/27 flashback:
Click the above image for a related Log24 post of 15 years ago today.
A related literary remark —
"Imagine Raiders of the Lost Ark set in 20th-century London, and then
imagine it written by a man steeped not in Hollywood movies but in Dante
and the things of the spirit, and you might begin to get a picture…."
— Doug Thorpe in an Amazon.com book review, not of Dark Materials.
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Friday, March 31, 2023
For Sixteen Vestal Virgins — Data and Metadata
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
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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Friday, January 13, 2023
LMS Gresham
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Posted on 13/01/2023 by Peter Cameron My last major job at Queen Mary University of London more than ten years ago was designing and presenting a new first-semester first-year module to be taken by all students on mathematics programmes or joint programmes involving mathematics. I discussed it in my LMS-Gresham lecture. |
LMS
Gresham
"… seeds having fallen on barren rock, as it were" . . .
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Wednesday, January 11, 2023
How the Darkness Gets In
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF RUDOLF CARNAP
EDITED BY PAUL ARTHUR SCHILPP
. . . . |
See also . . .
The extraordinary consequences of Einstein’s universe:
Relativity shatters our experience of time
9th January 2023
By Michael David Silberstein
"Professor of Philosophy at Elizabethtown College
and co-athor [sic] of Emergence in Context:
A treatise of twentry [sic] first-century natural philosophy
(Oxford University Press, 2022)."
"… the experience that there is something special about
the character of the present moment. This is what presumably
lead [sic] Einstein to say that
'there is something essential about the Now
which is just outside the realm of science.' "
Silberstein does not give any source for his quotation.
But see the passage from Carnap above.
I do not recommend taking Carnap's — or Silberstein's —
word for anything.
The source of Silberstein's remarks is a publication of an
organization called "Institute of Art and Ideas," or IAI.
Wikipedia on that organization:
"The IAI is responsible for organising the bi-annual festival
HowTheLightGetsIn, the biggest philosophy and music
festival in the world* aimed at 'tackling the dearth of philosophy
in daily life,' in addition to monthly IAI Live events."
* Maya Oppenheim (7 September 2021):
"HowTheLightGetsIn: The world's largest philosophy
and music festival to ask life's big questions."
The Independent.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2022
The Forms of Being
"If the window is this matrix of ambi- or multivalence,
and the bars of the windows-the grid-are what help us
to see, to focus on, this matrix, they are themselves
the symbol of the symbolist work of art. They function as
the multilevel representation through which the work of art
can allude, and even reconstitute, the forms of Being."
— Page 59, Rosalind Krauss, "Grids," MIT Press,
October , Vol. 9 (Summer, 1979), pp. 50-64
Related material —
Click the above image for a related Log24 post of 15 years ago today.
A related literary remark —
"Imagine Raiders of the Lost Ark set in 20th-century London, and then
imagine it written by a man steeped not in Hollywood movies but in Dante
and the things of the spirit, and you might begin to get a picture…."
— Doug Thorpe in an Amazon.com book review, not of Dark Materials.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Area 15 Revisited: The In-Folding
"All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one."
— T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” (1942)
For seekers of a "crazy Christmas knot" —
The commercial logo below may be viewed as
three in-folded Y-shaped orange forked tongues.
See also this journal on the above opening date — July 23, 2021:
Cover illustration:
Spies returning from the land of
Canaan with a cluster of grapes.
Colored woodcut from
Biblia Sacra Germanica ,
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1483.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
"What happens in Canaan, stays in Canaan."
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Thursday, November 24, 2022
The Drum Machine
"A struggling music producer sells his soul to a 1970s drum machine."
— Summary of a short film by Kevin Ignatius, "Hook Man."
The music producer pawns his current drum device
and acquires a demonic 1970s machine.
Artistic symbolism —
The 16-pad device at left may be viewed by enthusiasts of ekphrasis
as a Galois tesseract, and the machine at right as the voice of
Hal Foster, an art theorist who graduated from Princeton in 1977.
For an example of Foster's prose style, see
the current London Review of Books.
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Saturday, July 30, 2022
Modal Diamond Box
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A mnemonic from a course titled
“Traditionally, there are two modalities, namely,
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For less rigorous remarks, search Log24 for Modal Diamond Box.
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Saturday, July 23, 2022
Myth Space
From the new URL mythspace.org, which forwards to . . .
http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=mythspace —
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From Middlemarch (1871-2), by George Eliot, Ch. III — "Dorothea by this time had looked deep into the ungauged reservoir of Mr. Casaubon's mind, seeing reflected there in vague labyrinthine extension every quality she herself brought; had opened much of her own experience to him, and had understood from him the scope of his great work, also of attractively labyrinthine extent. For he had been as instructive as Milton's 'affable archangel;' and with something of the archangelic manner he told her how he had undertaken to show (what indeed had been attempted before, but not with that thoroughness, justice of comparison, and effectiveness of arrangement at which Mr. Casaubon aimed) that all the mythical systems or erratic mythical fragments in the world were corruptions of a tradition originally revealed. Having once mastered the true position and taken a firm footing there, the vast field of mythical constructions became intelligible, nay, luminous with the reflected light of correspondences. But to gather in this great harvest of truth was no light or speedy work." |
See also the term correspondence in this journal.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Occupy Space Continues.
Alternate Title —
Types of Ambiguity:
The Circle in the Triangle,
the Singer in the Song.
From an excellent June 17 Wall Street Journal review of a new
Isaac Bashevis Singer book from Princeton University Press —
" 'Old Truths and New Clichés,' a collection of 19
prose articles, most appearing in English for the
first time, reveals that Singer was as consummate
an essayist as he was a teller of tales." — Benjamin Balint
From a search in this journal for Singer —
Related material —
From a post of June 2, "Self-Enclosing" —
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"… the self-enclosing processes by which late 20th-century
— Colin Burrow in the June 9, 2022 issue |
From the December 14, 2021, post Notes on Lines —
The triangle, a percussion instrument that was
featured prominently in the Tom Stoppard play
"Every Good Boy Deserves Favour."
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Tuesday, June 14, 2022
A Triangle of Sadness
The title refers to this year's
Cannes Film Festival winner.
Related material:
From a post of June 2, "Self-Enclosing" —
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"… the self-enclosing processes by which late 20th-century
— Colin Burrow in the June 9, 2022 issue |
From a post of June 13, "The Theater Game" —
From a post of June 12, "Triangle.graphics, 2012-2022" —
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Thursday, February 10, 2022
“Kimi, Siri. Siri, Kimi.”
From "Siri + Wechsler" in this journal —
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For Little Man Tate —
Related material — Wechsler in this journal and
Mark and Lucille, Bill and Violet, Al and Regina,
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Related material —
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Monday, January 17, 2022
Prime Matter
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Quantum mechanics describes the probabilities of actual outcomes in terms of a wave function, or at least of a quantum state of amplitudes that varies with time. The public always asks what the wave function is , or what the amplitudes are amplitudes of . Usually, we reply that the amplitudes are ‘probability amplitudes’, or that the wave function is a ‘probability wave function’, but neither answer is ontologically satisfying since probabilities are numbers , not stuff . We have already rehearsed the objections to the natural world being made out of numbers, as these are pure forms. In fact, ‘waves’, ‘amplitudes’ and ‘probabilities’ are all forms, and none of them can be substances. So, what are quantum objects made of: what stuff ? According to Heisenberg [6], the quantum probability waves are “a quantitative formulation of the concept of ‘dynamis’, possibility, or in the later Latin version, ‘potentia’, in Aristotle’s philosophy. The concept of events not determined in a peremptory manner, but that the possibility or ‘tendency’ for an event to take place has a kind of reality—a certain intermediate layer of reality, halfway between the massive reality of matter and the intellectual reality of the idea or the image—this concept plays a decisive role in Aristotle’s philosophy. In modern quantum theory this concept takes on a new form; it is formulated quantitatively as probability and subjected to mathematically expressible laws of nature.” Unfortunately Heisenberg does not develop this interpretation much beyond the sort of generality of the above statements, and the concept of ‘potentiality’ remains awkwardly isolated from much of his other thought on this subject [7]. It is unclear even what he means by ‘potentia’. Reference Heisenberg, W. 1961 On Modern Physics , London: Orion Press. Notes [6] W. Heisenberg, ‘Planck’s discovery and the philosophical problems of atomic physics’, pp. 3-20 in Heisenberg (1961). [7] Heisenberg, for example, brings into his thought on quantum physics the Kantian phenomena/noumena distinction, as well as some of Bohr’s ideas on ‘complementarity’ in experimental arrangements. |
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Saturday, September 18, 2021
In memory of Sir Clive Sinclair…
… who reportedly "died at home in London on Thursday morning" —
From a Log24 post of May 25, 2005 —
"We will go to Asgard...now," he said.
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Friday, September 3, 2021
“The Home Cube, Where the Couple Reside”
From the post "Games" of Jan. 31, 2021 —
“Once Knecht confessed to his teacher that he wished to
learn enough to be able to incorporate the system of the
I Ching into the Glass Bead Game. Elder Brother laughed.
‘Go ahead and try’, he exclaimed. ‘You’ll see how it turns out.
Anyone can create a pretty little bamboo garden in the world.
But I doubt the gardener would succeed in incorporating
the world in his bamboo grove’ ” (P. 139).
— Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi) .
Translated by Richard and Clara Winston ( London, Vintage, 2000).
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Friday, July 23, 2021
Art Direction
Cover illustration:
Spies returning from the land of
Canaan with a cluster of grapes.
Colored woodcut from
Biblia Sacra Germanica ,
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1483.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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Monday, April 5, 2021
For Your Consideration
. . . And then there’s Abigail Spencer . . . .
A line for von Braun in “Timeless” S1 E4 —
“But sometimes I hit London.”
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Sunday, March 28, 2021
Gap Dance
“Plato and Hegel always recognized the importance of the gap:
they invoke the gap (the opening, the separation, the division)
and they put it to work. The inescapable gaps that cannot be bridged,
that cannot be filled, play a central role in Derrida’s thought and in
our response to his death. The gaps in Derrida’s work resist the gap;
they swerve, deviate and wander (écarter ) – gaps move . When someone
or something takes pre-cedence (goes first, goes before, goes on ahead
and gives up its place ) a gap is opened. There (are) only gaps, the gaps
that Jacques Derrida has left behind him and in front of him: the
pre-cedence of gaps. This tracing of gaps (écarts ) is a preface to an
impossible mourning, a mourning that one must at once avoid and
affirm. It keeps returning to Derrida’s Dissemination (1972)….”
— Page vii of The Impossible Mourning of Jacques Derrida ,
by Sean Gaston (Continuum Books, London/New York, 2006)
Later in the same book —
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Friday, March 19, 2021
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Time Class
The two most recent posts today on Kate Beckinsale’s Instagram:
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Sunday, March 7, 2021
Nighttown Humor*
“The hallucinatory, Joycean night-town through which
Pig and Runt roam is effectively conjured . . . .”
“An dat liddle baba he look righ inta me, yeah.”
— Disco Pigs script
* As opposed to London Humor . . .
“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?”
Disco Pigs star Elaine Cassidy in a later entertainment:
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Sunday, January 31, 2021
Games
The ivory-tower games of the previous post, Space Poetics,
suggest a review of Hesse on the I Ching —
“Once Knecht confessed to his teacher that he wished to
learn enough to be able to incorporate the system of the
I Ching into the Glass Bead Game. Elder Brother laughed.
‘Go ahead and try’, he exclaimed. ‘You’ll see how it turns out.
Anyone can create a pretty little bamboo garden in the world.
But I doubt the gardener would succeed in incorporating
the world in his bamboo grove’ ” (P. 139).
— Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi) .
Translated by Richard and Clara Winston ( London, Vintage, 2000).
The above passage is as quoted and cited in
“Language Games in the Ivory Tower:
Comparing the Philosophical Investigations with
Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game ,”
by Georgina Edwards
First published: 13 December 2019,
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9752.12389 .
The cited publication date was also the date of death for
a Harvard classmate of mine. As an alumnus of Phillips Andover,
he might have preferred Oliver Wendell Holmes to Hesse.
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Saturday, January 2, 2021
Onward and Upward with the Arts
An older “Methodist hymnbook” apparently had 1026 hymns —
The Methodist Hymn Book,
Illustrated with Biography, History,
Incident, and Anecdote ,
by George John Stevenson.
Second edition, London, Charles H. Kelly, 1894 —
Hymn 834 — I seek Thy kingdom first
Hymn 625 — Out of the depth of self-despair
Hymn 910 — God of truth, and power, and grace
Hymn 842 — Father, I know that all my life
Hymn 366 — I soon shall hear thy quick’ning voice
The 1933 Methodist Hymn Book has the above-mentioned 984 hymns.
In that book, the above numbers refer to . . .
834 — Above the clear blue sky
625 — I to the hills will lift mine eyes
910 — These things shall be: a loftier race
842 — Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild
366 — Jesus! Redeemer, Saviour, Lord
I prefer the list from the older book.
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Friday, October 30, 2020
Rare Shells and Stratagems
Patricia Lockwood quoting Nabokov —
‘I saw the board as a square pool of limpid water
with rare shells and stratagems rosily visible
upon the smooth tessellated bottom, which
to my confused adversary was all ooze and
squid-cloud.’ Conceptions of space, dimension,
movement, strategy.
— London Review of Books ,
Vol. 42 No. 21 · 5 November 2020
Related images —
From this journal on October 26:
From this journal this morning:
A dancer forms a heart shape with her hands. Finishing the gesture,
she recovers the point missing from the bottom of the above shield . . .
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Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Space X File
"For every kind of vampire,
there is a kind of cross."
— Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
"Sometimes I hit London."
— Saying ascribed to Wernher von Braun
Inscribed Carpenter's Square:
In Latin, NORMA
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Friday, May 8, 2020
Production Values
From Log24 on August 30, 2013 —
| Portrait, in the 2013 film Oblivion , of a 2005 graduate of London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art —
London derrière. |
From a 2015 film viewed last night —
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Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Puzzle Pictures
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A doodle from 2012’s Feast of the Epiphany—
A doodle based on a post for Twelfth Night, 2003—
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Friday, January 10, 2020
In Memoriam: Mike Resnick
Science fiction author Mike Resnick "died very early today,
January 10, 2020, a little after midnight," his daughter wrote,
according to a Heavy.com article dated "Jan 9, 2020 at 11:07 am."
That date of death accordingly should be "January 9, 2020."
But perhaps the saying "print the legend" is relevant here.
For related fiction, see Resnick's The Dark Lady in this journal
and …
"There was a young lady named Bright
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She set out one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night."
[Link added.]
— According to quoteinvestigator.com, this is from the
December 19, 1923, Punch, or The London Charivari ,
Volume 165, "Relativity" (Limerick), page 591, column 1.
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Sunday, December 1, 2019
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Wall
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"Nor again will I pretend that, as Bacon asserts, `the pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning far surpasseth all other in nature'. This is too much the language of a salesman crying his own wares. The pleasures of the intellect are notoriously less vivid than either the pleasures of sense or the pleasures of the affections; and therefore, especially in the season of youth, the pursuit of knowledge is likely enough to be neglected and lightly esteemed in comparison with other pursuits offering much stronger immediate attractions. But the pleasure of learning and knowing, though not the keenest, is yet the least perishable of pleasures; the least subject to external things, and the play of chance, and the wear of time. And as a prudent man puts money by to serve as a provision for the material wants of his old age, so too he needs to lay up against the end of his days provision for the intellect. As the years go by, comparative values are found to alter: Time, says Sophocles, takes many things which once were pleasures and brings them nearer to pain. In the day when the strong men shall bow themselves, and desire shall fail, it will be a matter of yet more concern than now, whether one can say `my mind to me a kingdom is'; and whether the windows of the soul look out upon a broad and delightful landscape, or face nothing but a brick wall."
– A.E. Housman, Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Latin,
http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2016/01/ |
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Friday, July 12, 2019
Holloway Today
"The area is home to many artists and people who work in
the media, including many journalists, writers and professionals
working in film and television." — Wikipedia
Tusen takk to My Square Lady —
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Thursday, May 23, 2019
Fire on the Water
Related literary remarks from The Crimson Abyss
(a Log24 post of March 29, 2017) —
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Prospero's Children was first published by HarperCollins,
"This is English fantasy at its finest. Prospero’s Children |
Related imagery from The Crimson Abyss —
See as well posts of June 6, 2004, and May 22, 2004.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2018
“Crossword Omen” Continues.
An image from earlier Log24 posts tagged Crossword Omen —
Portrait, in the 2013 film Oblivion , of a 2005 graduate
of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art —
London derrière.
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Thursday, June 21, 2018
Cavell’s Matrix
From an obituary for Stanley Cavell, Harvard philosopher
who reportedly died at 91 on Tuesday, June 19:
The London Review of Books weblog yesterday —
"Michael Wood reviewed [Cavell’s]
Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow in 2005:
'The ordinary slips away from us. If we ignore it, we lose it.
If we look at it closely, it becomes extraordinary, the way
words or names become strange if we keep staring at them.
The very notion turns into a baffling riddle.' "
See also, in this journal, Tuesday morning's Ici vient M. Jordan and
this morning's previous post.
Update of 3:24 AM from my RSS feed —
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Sunday, May 20, 2018
Sometimes Function Follows Form
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Tuesday, February 13, 2018
A Titan of the Field
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On the late Cambridge astronomer Donald Lynden-Bell — "As an academic at a time when students listened and lecturers lectured, he had the disconcerting habit of instead picking on a random undergraduate and testing them on the topic. One former student, now a professor, remembered how he would 'ask on-the-spot questions while announcing that his daughter would solve these problems at the breakfast table'. He got away with it because he was genuinely interested in the work of his colleagues and students, and came to be viewed with great affection by them. He also got away with it because he was well established as a titan of the field." — The London Times on Feb. 8, 2018, at 5 PM (British time) |
Related material —
Two Log24 posts from yesteday, Art Wars and The Void.
See as well the field GF(9) …
… and the 3×3 grid as a symbol of Apollo
(an Olympian rather than a Titan) —
.
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Portland News
An obituary from this afternoon suggests a review of
a Log24 post from last year —
See also today's earlier post Once in a Lullaby and yesterday's
London Daily Mail — "Kristen Stewart Cuts a Cool Figure" —
.
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Monday, August 7, 2017
Putting the “Times” in “New York Times”
See also Noon for London in this journal on the
above "Starting to See Pictures" upload date in 2016.
For a tale about that date, April 4, see today's noon post.
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Saturday, July 22, 2017
A Circle of Influence
In memory of Doris Lessing and Clancy Sigal —
". . . along with [R. D.] Laing they formed 'a circle
of almost incestuous mutual influence . . . .' "
— Sam Roberts, The New York Times , July 21 obituary of Sigal
"Thus I would wish to emphasize that
our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often
the abdication of ecstasy,
the betrayal of our true potentialities,
that many of us are only too successful
in acquiring a false self
to adapt to false realities.
But let it stand.
This was the work of an old young man.
If I am older, I am now also younger."
— R. D. Laing, London, September 1964,
preface to the Pelican edition of
The Divided Self: An Existential Study
in Sanity and Madness (Penguin Books, 1965)
"My Back Pages," by Bob Dylan, Verse 3 —
Girls’ faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Un-thought of, though, somehow
[Refrain]
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now
— From an album released August 8, 1964
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Saturday, July 15, 2017
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
The Crimson Abyss
"And as the characters in the meme twitch into the abyss
that is the sky, this meme will disappear into whatever
internet abyss swallowed MySpace."
—Staff writer Kamila Czachorowski, Harvard Crimson , March 29
1984 —
2010 —
Logo design for Stack Exchange Math by Jin Yang
Recent posts now tagged Crimson Abyss suggest
the above logo be viewed in light of a certain page 29 —
"… as if into a crimson abyss …." —
Update of 9 PM ET March 29, 2017:
Prospero's Children was first published by HarperCollins,
London, in 1999. A statement by the publisher provides
an instance of the famous "much-needed gap." —
"This is English fantasy at its finest. Prospero’s Children
steps into the gap that exists between The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe and Clive Barker’s Weaveworld , and
is destined to become a modern classic."
Related imagery —
See also "Hexagram 64 in Context" (Log24, March 16, 2017).
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Monday, January 30, 2017
Devotional Space
Quotations by and for an artist who reportedly died
on Sunday, January 15, 2017 —
"What drives my vision is a need to locate
a 'genetically felt' devotional space
in which a simultaneous multiplicity
of disparate realities coexists."
— The late Ciel Bergman, in her webpage
"Artist's Statement"
"Once a registered nurse who worked in a hospital
psychiatric ward, Ms. Bergman was a struggling
single mom of two when she couldn’t resist the pull
of her art. In 1969, she entered a painting in the
Jack London Invitational, an art contest in Oakland,
and won first prize. This compelled her to enroll at
the San Francisco Art Institute, where she earned
her master of fine arts with honors in painting."
— Sam Whiting in the San Francisco Chronicle
See also Oakland in this journal and
"Only a peculiar can enter a time loop."
"The peculiar kind of 'identity' that is attributed to
apparently altogether heterogeneous figures
in virtue of their being transformable into one another
by means of certain operations defining a group,
is thus seen to exist also in the domain of perception."
— Ernst Cassirer, quoted here on
Midsummer Eve (St. John's Eve), 2010
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Sunday, December 11, 2016
Complexity to Simplicity
Cézanne "showed how it was possible to pass
from the complexity of the appearance of things
to the geometrical simplicity which design demands."
— Roger Fry in the catalogue for the 1910 London
exhibition "Manet and the Post-Impressionists,"
according to …
See also A Roger Fry Reader
(edited by Christopher Reed,
University of Chicago Press, 1996).
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Thursday, October 6, 2016
A Labyrinth for Octavio
The title refers to the previous post.
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From Middlemarch (1871-2), by George Eliot, Ch. III — "Dorothea by this time had looked deep into the ungauged reservoir of Mr. Casaubon's mind, seeing reflected there in vague labyrinthine extension every quality she herself brought; had opened much of her own experience to him, and had understood from him the scope of his great work, also of attractively labyrinthine extent. For he had been as instructive as Milton's 'affable archangel;' and with something of the archangelic manner he told her how he had undertaken to show (what indeed had been attempted before, but not with that thoroughness, justice of comparison, and effectiveness of arrangement at which Mr. Casaubon aimed) that all the mythical systems or erratic mythical fragments in the world were corruptions of a tradition originally revealed. Having once mastered the true position and taken a firm footing there, the vast field of mythical constructions became intelligible, nay, luminous with the reflected light of correspondences. But to gather in this great harvest of truth was no light or speedy work." |
See also the term correspondence in this journal.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Elegance
Detail from the cover of the 1967 first issue of London's OZ magazine —
Other OZ news in Tuesday evening's online New York Times —
"Well, I tried to make it Sunday …" — America lyrics
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Thursday, May 19, 2016
I have seen it, I have seen it!
The title is a quote from Sir Galahad in
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
Immediately following these words …
Note also posts on The Hourglass Code .
This post was suggested by an album cover
mentioned in tonight's New York Times story
on the May 11 death at 73 in London of one
David King , a graphic designer and design historian —
"For the third Hendrix album, 'Electric Ladyland,'
Mr. King commissioned a photograph of 19
nude women, in various sizes and shapes, which
he intended as a rebuttal to the Playboy image of
women. In the United States, it was regarded as
risqué and was replaced with a head shot of Hendrix."
— William Grimes
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Blackboard Jungle Continues
Images from a post titled For Stephen King —
Related images —
"Pray for the grace of accuracy" — Robert Lowell
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Monday, March 14, 2016
Sausage Party* Humor
On Seth Rogen —
"He has described his parents, who met in Israel
on a kibbutz, as 'radical Jewish socialists.' [a] "
* "The film will have its world premiere at the
South by Southwest Film Festival on March 14, 2016. [b] "
Notes from Wikipedia —
a. Patterson, John (September 14, 2007). "Comedy's new centre of gravity".
The Guardian (London: Guardian News and Media Limited).
b. D'Alessandro, Anthony (March 1, 2016).
"Sony Is Throwing A ‘Sausage Party’ At SXSW…". Deadline.com.
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Monday, December 7, 2015
Wittgenstein Illustrated
From "AMNESIA: VARIOUS, LUMINOUS, FIXED,"
An exhibition by Joseph Kosuth at
Sprüth Magers Gallery London,
NOVEMBER 26 2014 – FEBRUARY 14 2015 —
This journal, NOVEMBER 26 2014 –
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Mathematics and Narrative
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This journal, FEBRUARY 14 2015 —
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015
The Virgin’s Island
From Charles Kingsley's At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies
(London and New York, Macmillan and Co., 1872 edition, p. 13) —
The title of this post, "The Virgin's Island," suggests one possible answer
to the following question…
Philosopher Jerry Fodor parodied Wittgenstein with
a page of elaborations on Michael Frayn’s own parody,
'Wittgenstein on Fog-like Sensations,' of which this
is the best:
'I can’t see a thing in this fog.' Which thing?
— David Auerbach at Slate.com yesterday
The Virgin's Island:
Two frames from the Jodie Foster film "Contact"—
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Related material — Welcome to Noplace (Log24 on June 10, 2015).
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Friday, August 7, 2015
Anschauliche Geometrie
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason ,
translated by Norman Kemp Smith,
London, Macmillan, 1929, p. 92 —
"Without sensibility no object
would be given to us,
without reflection no object
would be thought.
Concepts without percepts are empty,
percepts without concepts are blind."
"Without sensibility no object
would be given to us,
without understanding no object
would be thought.
Thoughts without content are empty,
intuitions without concepts are blind."
From the original —
"Ohne Sinnlichkeit würde uns
kein Gegenstand gegeben,
und ohne Verstand
keiner gedacht werden.
Gedanken ohne Inhalt sind leer,
Anschauungen ohne Begriffe sind blind."
Kritik der reinen Vernunft
I. Transzendentale Elementarlehre
Zweiter Teil. Die transzendentale Logik
Einleitung. Idee einer transzendentalen Logik
Related remarks on mathematics —
In memory of the late Ernest E. Shult, some less classical remarks —
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Traveling Salesmen
Click the above image for the IMDb page from which it is taken.
"Course material associated with Jack Edmonds’ lectures
can be found here."
See also High Concept (Jan. 21, 2015) —
Image from the end of the 2012 film "Travelling Salesman"
— and another eye in a triangle …
From the Log24 post Prize (June 7, 2015)
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Thursday, April 9, 2015
Core Values
"Yankee Doodle went to London" — Song lyric
“Geometry was very important to us in this movie.”
— The Missing ART (Log24, November 7th, 2014)
ART —
"Faculty Approve Theater Concentration, Affirmation
of Integrity" — Recent Harvard Crimson headline
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Thursday, February 26, 2015
Brit Award
"The Brit Awards are… the British equivalent
of the American Grammy Awards." — Wikipedia
Detail of an image from yesterday's 5:30 PM ET post:
Related material:
From a review: "Imagine 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
set in 20th-century London, and then imagine it
written by a man steeped not in Hollywood movies
but in Dante and the things of the spirit, and you
might begin to get a picture of Charles Williams's
novel Many Dimensions ."
See also Solomon's Seal (July 26, 2012).
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Friday, November 14, 2014
Another Opening, Another Show
“What happens when you mix the brilliant wit of Noel Coward
with the intricate plotting of Agatha Christie? Set during a
weekend in an English country manor in 1932, Death by Design
is a delightful and mysterious ‘mash-up’ of two of the greatest
English writers of all time. Edward Bennett, a playwright, and
his wife Sorel Bennett, an actress, flee London and head to
Cookham after a disastrous opening night. But various guests
arrive unexpectedly….”
— Samuel French (theatrical publisher) on a play that
opened in Houston on September 9, 2011.
Related material:
- This journal on May 28, 2014,
- on October 7, 2014,
- on November 13, 2014,
- and on the above opening night, September 9, 2011.
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Saturday, September 27, 2014
Diabolically Complex Riddle
Steve Chawkins in the Los Angeles Times
Friday, September 26, 2014, 12:09 PM LA time —
"Tom Tombrello, a Caltech physics professor for more than
50 years and an inspiration for freshmen who had to grapple
with diabolically complex riddles to enter his legendary class
on scientific thinking [Physics 11], has died. He was 78.
Tombrello collapsed Tuesday [Sept. 23, 2014] on a bus
between terminals at London's Heathrow airport, his wife,
Stephanie, said. The cause of his death has not yet been determined….
… Tombrello accepted only a handful of students for each year's
session of Physics 11."
How many students is a handful?
Related material from this journal on the day of the professor's death:
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Thursday, May 15, 2014
“You’re in my place.”
The title is a line from a preview of the new
film “The Double,” starring Jesse Eisenberg:
Related lines from T. S. Eliot:
Here is a place of disaffection
Time before and time after
In a dim light: neither daylight
Investing form with lucid stillness
Turning shadow into transient beauty
With slow rotation suggesting permanence
Nor darkness to purify the soul
Emptying the sensual with deprivation
Cleansing affection from the temporal.
Neither plenitude nor vacancy. Only a flicker
Over the strained time-ridden faces
Distracted from distraction by distraction
Filled with fancies and empty of meaning
Tumid apathy with no concentration
Men and bits of paper, whirled by the cold wind
That blows before and after time,
Wind in and out of unwholesome lungs
Time before and time after.
Eructation of unhealthy souls
Into the faded air, the torpid
Driven on the wind that sweeps the gloomy hills of London,
Hampstead and Clerkenwell, Campden and Putney,
Highgate, Primrose and Ludgate. Not here
Not here the darkness, in this twittering world.
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Sunday, May 11, 2014
For the Perplexed
From a New York Times obituary by Bruce Weber tonight—
Charles Marowitz, Director and Playwright, Dies at 82
“There are two kinds of bafflement in the theater: the kind that fascinates as it perplexes, and the kind that just perplexes,” he wrote in The Times in 1969 in an essay about Mr. Shepard’s play “La Turista,” which had recently opened in London. “If a play doesn’t make quick sense, but enters into some kind of dialogue with our subconscious, we tend to admit it to that lounge where we entertain interesting-albeit-unfamiliar strangers.
“If it only baffles, there are several courses open to us: we can assume it is ‘above our heads’ or directed ‘to some other kind of person,’ or regretfully conclude that it confuses us because it is itself confused. However, the fear of being proved wrong is so great today that almost every new work which isn’t patently drivel gets the benefit of the doubt.”
Another play by Sam Shepard mentioned in the obituary suggests a review of…
- “From the Witch Ball,” a post from May 2,
the reported date of Marowitz’s death - “Two Satanic Majesties Request All-Devouring Fame,”
a NY Times review from October 9, 2006 - This journal on that date— October 9, 2006—
“Art Wars: To Apollo.”
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Thursday, April 24, 2014
The Inscape of 24
“The more intellectual, less physical, the spell of contemplation
the more complex must be the object, the more close and elaborate
must be the comparison the mind has to keep making between
the whole and the parts, the parts and the whole.”
— The Journals and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins ,
edited by Humphry House, 2nd ed. (London: Oxford
University Press, 1959), p. 126, as quoted by Philip A.
Ballinger in The Poem as Sacrament
Related material from All Saints’ Day in 2012:
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Monday, March 17, 2014
Narratives
Or: The Confessions of Nat Tate
“A convincing lie is, in its own way, a tiny, perfect narrative.”
— William Boyd, “A Short History of the Short Story” (2006)
“A novel written in the first-person singular has certain powerful
narrative advantages, especially when it takes the form of a ‘confession.'”
— William Boyd, “Memoir of a Plagiarist” (1994)
From a Log24 post yesterday —
For Little Man Tate —
Related material — Wechsler in this journal and an earlier Siri Hustvedt
art novel, from 2003 —
Mark and Lucille, Bill and Violet, Al and Regina, etc., etc., etc. —
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Sunday, March 16, 2014
Blockheads continues
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Obiter Dictum
The title is both a legal phrase and a phrase
used by Tom Wolfe in his writings on art.
See, too, the pattern of nine triangular half-squares
arranged in a 3×3 square used in the logo of the
Jean Stephen art galleries in Minneapolis…
… and in a print at the Tate in London (click to enlarge)—
See as well an obit of the print’s artist, Justin Knowles, who reportedly died
on Feb. 24, 2004.
Some instances of that date in this journal are related to Knowles’s aesthetics.
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Saturday, February 1, 2014
ART WARS (continued)
A sequel to Friday afternoon's Diamond Star
Diamond Star —
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A doodle from this year's [2012’s] Feast of the Epiphany—
A doodle based on today's previous post and on
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Context — All posts tagged "Eden."
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Friday, January 31, 2014
Diamond Star
From The Diamond and the Star , by John Warden*
(London, Shepheard-Walwyn Ltd., June 1, 2009) —
(The quotation is from Kipling's "The Conundrum of the Workshops.")
Answer — Some would say "Yes."
Part I: From a search for "Diamond Star" in this journal —
The Diamond Star
Part II: From the Facebook photos of Oslo artist Josefine Lyche—
* Obituary link, added at 10:45 PM ET Jan. 31 after reading a publisher's note
saying that "The author sadly died before the book was published."
Perhaps sadly, perhaps not.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
ART WARS
Continued from Pensée (Feb. 10, 2012).*
Nick Paumgarten in The New Yorker of Dec. 2, 2013—
" When one speaks of Zwirner the gallerist, one is speaking
as much of a handful of women in their forties who have been
with the gallery fifteen or more years. Zwirner has made them
partners, meaning, he says, that they 'will participate in profits
as the gallery does well.' They are Angela Choon, who runs the
London gallery; Hanna Schouwink, from Holland; Bellatrix Hubert,
from France; and Kristine Bell, from outside Buffalo. Seeing them
all together, at an opening or a dinner, brings to mind David
Carradine’s gang of glamorous assassins in 'Kill Bill.' "
See also the previous post, on An Object of Beauty.
* For some related art, see Square Round.
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Saturday, September 7, 2013
Structure and Character
(Continued from May 4, 2013)
"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain"
"It is well
That London, lair of sudden
Male and female darknesses,
Has broken her spell."
— D. H. Lawrence in a poem on a London blackout
during a bombing raid in 1917. See also today's previous
posts, Down Under and Howl.
Backstory— Recall, from history's nightmare on this date,
the Battle of Borodino and the second London Blitz.
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Sunday, September 1, 2013
The Crossword Omen
August 30, 11:01 AM Comment-Worthy
August 30, 12:00 PM Hymn
August 31, 8:23 PM What Where
September 1, 5:48 AM The Crossword Omen —
Related material: A critic's remarks on the missing character "Bum"
in Beckett's play "What Where" and Rimbaud on the vowel "U"—
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Friday, August 30, 2013
Her
(A sequel to today's noon post, Hymn)
Portrait, in the 2013 film Oblivion , of a 2005 graduate
of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art —
London derrière.
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Hymn
"By recalling the past and freezing the present
he could open the gates of time…."
— Mark Helprin, In Sunlight and in Shadow
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
Immersion
Part of a New York Times banner ad last night—
(Fashion week dates 2012 —
New York Sept. 6-13, London Sept. 14-18,
Milan Sept. 19-25, Paris Sept. 25-Oct. 3.)
Some related prose suggested by a link in
last night's Log24 post—
The theory, he had explained, was that the persona
was a four-dimensional figure, a tessaract in space,
the elementals Fire, Earth, Air, and Water permutating
and pervolving upon themselves, making a cruciform
(in three-space projection) figure of equal lines and
ninety degree angles.
— The Gameplayers of Zan , a novel by M. A. Foster
See also, if you can find a copy, Jeff Riggenbach's
"Science Fiction as Will and Idea," Riverside Quarterly
Vol. 5, No. 3 (whole number 19, August 1972, ed. by
Leland Sapiro et al.), 168-177.
Some background—
Tuesday's Simple Skill and 4D Ambassador,
as well as Now What? from May 23, 2012.
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
Hey
The end of the beginning of the London Games
suggests other games —
Shadows (July 14) —
A Game of Shadows — "You know my methods."
Related religious material —
The Feast of Saint Jude, 2011.
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Thursday, July 5, 2012
Shard
A post suggested by an article on The Shard of London
in this morning's Wall Street Journal—
As for the "Personal Jesus" song that accompanies the above video tribute,
listen to Liam Neeson as the voice of Aslan in recent Narnia films
and consider the saying of C. S. Lewis that Aslan is not a tame lion.
Here Lewis may, if one likes, be regarded as the "inkling" of Heidegger
in last night's post—
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
Play and Interplay
The last paragraph of the previous post
(as updated at about 7:20 PM today)
suggests a search for the phrase
"play and interplay" that yields…
"He had accepted the world as the world,
but now he was comprehending the
organization of it, the play and interplay
of force and matter."
— Martin Eden by Jack London
This in turn suggests a review of the film "Queen to Play" —
(Background: Nabokov + Patterns.)
The review announces showings of the film at Clark University
in Worcester, Mass., on Sunday, October 30, 2011.
See also this journal on that date— "The Idea Idea"— and
references to a knight figure from today's date in 1985.
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Heralds of Light
On Harvard's Memorial Church in 2007—
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"John Harvard left no male heir to carry on the Harvard family name. Instead, the naming of the College in his honor was the undying legacy that his friends decided to grant to him. In so doing, they were saying to every succeeding generation that this was the kind of man whom they wanted others to emulate, whose spirit of courage, self-sacrifice and generosity embodied the very best of what they hoped Harvard College should become. On November 4, 2007, the gift of a tablet was presented to Harvard Memorial Church by the dean of Southwark Cathedral, London, the Rev. Colin Slee, and Emmanuel College, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of John Harvard's baptism. This, along with a combined brief exhibit called 'Heralds of Light,' which consisted in part of showing John Harvard's baptismal page from the Southwark records and his Emmanuel College signature— brought over for the occasion from England by Southwark and Emmanuel representatives—was about all the attention that Harvard University could muster to remember the 400th birthday of its namesake." — Arseny James Melnick (A.M., Harvard University, 1977), |
Related material from the entertainment world—
Phoenix Senior: "As the plaque reads, this is John Harvard,
founder of Harvard University in 1638. It's also called
the Statue of Three Lies. What are the three lies?"
Also on November 4, 2007—
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Salvation for Gopnik
Yesterday afternoon's post Universals Revisited linked
(indirectly) to an article in the current New Yorker on
the Book of Revelation —
"The Big Reveal: Why Does the Bible End That Way?"
The connection in that post between universals and Revelation
may have eluded readers unfamiliar with a novel by
Charles Williams, The Place of the Lion (London, Gollancz, 1931).
The article's author, Adam Gopnik, appears in the following
Google Book Search, which may or may not help such readers.
Should Gopnik desire further information on Williams and salvation,
he may consult Steps Toward Salvation: An Examination of Coinherence
and Substitution in the Seven Novels of Charles Williams ,
by Dennis L. Weeks (American University Studies: Series 4, English
Language and Literature. Vol. 125), XV + 117 pp., Peter Lang Publishing, 1991.
The ninth item in the above search refers to a boxed set
of the seven novels themselves—
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Hegel
Those impressed by George Steiner's remark on Hegel in the previous post may consult…
(The Christian Examiner. Volume LXXX. New Series, Volume I. January, March, May, 1866.
New York: James Miller, Publisher, 522, Broadway. Boston: Walker, Fuller, & Co.
No. CCLIV, Art. IV.– THE SECRET OF HEGEL.
By C. C. Everett, pp. 196-207.
A review of…
The Secret of Hegel, being the Hegelian System in Origin, Principle, Form, and Matter.
By James Hutchinson Sterling. In two volumes.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. 1865. 8vo, 2 vols.)
On Hegel, from the review—
"He starts not from the beginning, but from the heart, of the world.
There never was a time when this pure Being— which, in its
undivided absoluteness, is indistinguishable from nothing;
as pure, unbroken light is indistinguishable from darkness—
was by itself alone; but this absolute Being is yet the foundation
and the groundwork of whatever is."
For more on Hegel's logic, see Marxists.org.
See also Steiner on chess and Lenin in The New Yorker
(September 7, 1968, page 133).
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Closure
Christopher Hitchens on J. K. Rowling—
“We must not let in daylight upon magic,” as Walter Bagehot remarked in another connection, and the wish to have everything clarified is eventually self-defeating in its own terms. In her correct determination to bring down the curtain decisively, Rowling has gone further than she should, and given us not so much a happy ending as an ending which suggests that evil has actually been defeated (you should forgive the expression) for good.
Greater authors— Arthur Conan Doyle most notably— have been in the same dilemma when seeking closure. And, like Conan Doyle, Rowling has won imperishable renown for giving us an identifiable hero and a fine caricature of a villain, and for making a fictional bit of King’s Cross station as luminous as a certain address on nearby Baker Street. It is given to few authors to create a world apart, and to populate it as well as illustrate it in the mind.
"A fictional bit of King's Cross Station"—
Throughout the series, Harry has traveled to King's Cross Station, either to depart for Hogwarts or return to London on the Hogwarts Express. The station has always symbolized the crossroad between the Muggle world and the Wizarding realm and Harry's constant shuffling between, and his conflict with, the two extremes. As Harry now finds himself at a transition point between life and death, it is purely to be expected that he would see it within his own mind as a simulacrum of that station. And though Dumbledore assures Harry that he (Harry) is not actually dead, it seems Harry can choose that option if he so wishes. Harry has literally and figuratively been stripped bare, and must decide either to board a train that will transport him to the "other side", or return to the living world…. — Wikibooks.org
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
Paranoia Strikes Deep
Tens of Millions of Smartphones Come With Spyware
Preinstalled, Security Analyst Says
Published December 01, 2011 – FoxNews.com
For details, see comments at YouTube.
Related entertainment—
1. Tara Fitzgerald in "New World Disorder" (1999)—
We skipped the light fandango
turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
but the crowd called out for more
2. Tara Fitzgerald in "Broken Glass" (2011)—
And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale
— Procol Harum song at beginning and end of "The Net" (1995)
“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,
quoted here on Kristallnacht 2011
See also, from "The Net"—
Decompiling Wolfenstein
"In Wolfenstein 3D , the player assumes the role of an American soldier
of Polish descent… attempting to escape from the Nazi stronghold of
Castle Wolfenstein." — Wikipedia
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
For Galois
Tue Oct 25, 2011 08:26 AM [London time]
from the weblog of Peter Cameron—
Today is Évariste Galois’ 200th birthday.
The event will be celebrated with the publication of a new transcription
and translation of Galois’ works (edited by Peter M. Neumann)
by the European Mathematical Society. The announcement is here.
Cameron's further remarks are also of interest.
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
Sequel
From post 4017 in this journal (do not click links)—
"Thanks to University Diaries for an entry on Clancy Martin,
a philosophy professor in the 'show me' state, and his experiences with AA."
Neither link in this quote works anymore.
See instead Martin in the London Review of Books .
Lottery hermeneutics, however, still seems usable.
Today's midday NY lottery "163" may be taken as a sequel
to both the page number "162" in today's noon post—
— Humboldt's Gift , page 163 (Penguin Classics, 1996)
— and a sequel to University Diaries ' meditation today on the Nobel literature prize,
which includes a quote from the winner:
"At last my life returns. My name appears like an angel.
Outside the walls a trumpet signal blows…. It is I! It is I!"
— Tomas Tranströmer, "The Name"
As for the evening NY numbers 014 and 5785, see Hexagram 14,
Not Even Wrong , and 5/7/85.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Opening Act
A Log24 post yesterday morning referred to a Neil Young song.
That song could, it turns out, be regarded as an opening act for a musician who died in London early this morning—
AP story— … Spokesman Mick Houghton said Wednesday that [Bert] Jansch died early Wednesday morning….
Jansch was a founding member of the British folk group Pentangle and had inspired a generation of rock and folk guitarists with his acoustic mastery….
Houghton says his final solo performances were opening for Canadian rocker Neil Young earlier this year.
In memoriam… "Well, I dreamed I saw the knights in armor coming…"
Background… The Pentangle in Sir Gawain and The Lyke-Wake Dirge performed by Pentangle.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Relativity Problem Revisited
A footnote was added to Finite Relativity—
Background:
Weyl on what he calls the relativity problem—
“The relativity problem is one of central significance throughout geometry and algebra and has been recognized as such by the mathematicians at an early time.”
– Hermann Weyl, 1949, “Relativity Theory as a Stimulus in Mathematical Research“
“This is the relativity problem: to fix objectively a class of equivalent coordinatizations and to ascertain the group of transformations S mediating between them.”
– Hermann Weyl, 1946, The Classical Groups , Princeton University Press, p. 16
…. A note of Feb. 20, 1986, supplied an example of such coordinatizations in finite geometry. In that note, the group of mediating transformations acted directly on coordinates within a 4×4 array. When the 4×4 array is embedded in a 4×6 array, a larger and more interesting group, M 24 (containing the original group), acts on the larger array. There is no obvious solution to Weyl’s relativity problem for M 24. That is, there is no obvious way* to apply exactly 24 distinct transformable coordinate-sets (or symbol-strings ) to the 24 array elements in such a way that the natural group of mediating transformations of the 24 symbol-strings is M 24. ….
Footnote of Sept. 20, 2011:
* R.T. Curtis has, it seems, a non-obvious way that involves strings of seven symbols. His abstract for a 1990 paper says that in his construction “The generators of M 24 are defined… as permutations of twenty-four 7-cycles in the action of PSL2(7) on seven letters….”
See “Geometric Interpretations of the ‘Natural’ Generators of the Mathieu groups,” by R.T. Curtis, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (1990), Vol. 107, Issue 01, pp. 19-26. (Rec. Jan. 3, 1989, revised Feb. 3, 1989.) This paper was published online on Oct. 24, 2008.
Some related articles by Curtis:
R.T. Curtis, “Natural Constructions of the Mathieu groups,” Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. (1989), Vol. 106, pp. 423-429
R.T. Curtis. “Symmetric Presentations I: Introduction, with Particular Reference to the Mathieu groups M 12 and M 24” In Proceedings of 1990 LMS Durham Conference ‘Groups, Combinatorics and Geometry’ (eds. M. W. Liebeck and J. Saxl), London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Series 165, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. 380–396
R.T. Curtis, “A Survey of Symmetric Generation of Sporadic Simple Groups,” in The Atlas of Finite Groups: Ten Years On , (eds. R.T. Curtis and R.A. Wilson), London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Series 249, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 39–57
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Monday, August 8, 2011
Diamond Theory vs. Story Theory (continued)
Richard J. Trudeau, a mathematics professor and Unitarian minister, published in 1987 a book, The Non-Euclidean Revolution , that opposes what he calls the Story Theory of truth [i.e., Quine, nominalism, postmodernism] to what he calls the traditional Diamond Theory of truth [i.e., Plato, realism, the Roman Catholic Church]. This opposition goes back to the medieval "problem of universals" debated by scholastic philosophers.
(Trudeau may never have heard of, and at any rate did not mention, an earlier 1976 monograph on geometry, "Diamond Theory," whose subject and title are relevant.)
From yesterday's Sunday morning New York Times—
"Stories were the primary way our ancestors transmitted knowledge and values. Today we seek movies, novels and 'news stories' that put the events of the day in a form that our brains evolved to find compelling and memorable. Children crave bedtime stories…."
— Drew Westen, professor at Emory University
From May 22, 2009—
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The above ad is by
Diamond from last night’s
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For further details, see Saturday's correspondences |
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Crossing the Bridge
Continued from July 15th…
Monstrance
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In memory of painter Lucian Freud, |
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"Just a flesh wound." — The Black Knight
For related material, see Crossing the Bridge
and this morning's post The Race.
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Sunday, July 10, 2011
Wittgenstein’s Diamond
Philosophical Investigations (1953)—
97. Thought is surrounded by a halo.
—Its essence, logic, presents an order,
in fact the a priori order of the world:
that is, the order of possibilities * ,
which must be common to both world and thought.
But this order, it seems, must be
utterly simple . It is prior to all experience,
must run through all experience;
no empirical cloudiness or uncertainty can be allowed to affect it
——It must rather be of the purest crystal.
But this crystal does not appear as an abstraction;
but as something concrete, indeed, as the most concrete,
as it were the hardest thing there is
(Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus No. 5.5563).
— Translation by G.E.M. Anscombe
All propositions of our colloquial language
are actually, just as they are, logically completely in order.
That simple thing which we ought to give here is not
a model of the truth but the complete truth itself.
(Our problems are not abstract but perhaps
the most concrete that there are.)
97. Das Denken ist mit einem Nimbus umgeben.
—Sein Wesen, die Logik, stellt eine Ordnung dar,
und zwar die Ordnung a priori der Welt,
d.i. die Ordnung der Möglichkeiten ,
die Welt und Denken gemeinsam sein muß.
Diese Ordnung aber, scheint es, muß
höchst einfach sein. Sie ist vor aller Erfahrung;
muß sich durch die ganze Erfahrung hindurchziehen;
ihr selbst darf keine erfahrungsmäßige Trübe oder Unsicherheit anhaften.
——Sie muß vielmehr vom reinsten Kristall sein.
Dieser Kristall aber erscheint nicht als eine Abstraktion;
sondern als etwas Konkretes, ja als das Konkreteste,
gleichsam Härteste . (Log. Phil. Abh. No. 5.5563.)
Related language in Łukasiewicz (1937)—
* Updates of 9:29 PM ET July 10, 2011—
A mnemonic from a course titled “Galois Connections and Modal Logics“—
“Traditionally, there are two modalities, namely, possibility and necessity.
The basic modal operators are usually written 
(square) for necessarily
and 
(diamond) for possibly. Then, for example, P can be read as
‘it is possibly the case that P .'”
| See also Intensional Semantics , lecture notes by Kai von Fintel and Irene Heim, MIT, Spring 2007 edition—
“The diamond ⋄ symbol for possibility is due to C.I. Lewis, first introduced in Lewis & Langford (1932), but he made no use of a symbol for the dual combination ¬⋄¬. The dual symbol □ was later devised by F.B. Fitch and first appeared in print in 1946 in a paper by his doctoral student Barcan (1946). See footnote 425 of Hughes & Cresswell (1968). Another notation one finds is L for necessity and M for possibility, the latter from the German möglich ‘possible.’” Barcan, Ruth C.: 1946. “A Functional Calculus of First Order Based on Strict Implication.” Journal of Symbolic Logic, 11(1): 1–16. URL http://www.jstor.org/pss/2269159. Hughes, G.E. & Cresswell, M.J.: 1968. An Introduction to Modal Logic. London: Methuen. Lewis, Clarence Irving & Langford, Cooper Harold: 1932. Symbolic Logic. New York: Century. |
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Friday, June 24, 2011
The Cube
Click the above image for some background.
Related material:
Skateboard legend Andy Kessler,
this morning's The Gleaming,
and But Sometimes I Hit London.
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