Log24

"The four base units commute and satisfy
the multiplication table of the Klein 4 group."

— Bernd Schmeikal, article accepted
    for publication on 11 April 2015

See also Log24 on 11 April 2015 (Orthodox Holy Saturday).

From the February 2016 article in the previous post —

"Over a century has passed since the publication,
in the Paris newspaper Le Figaro  on 20 February 1909,
of a frontpage article by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti which
came to be known as the Manifesto of Futurism ."

This suggests a review of the 20 February 2009  posts now tagged

"A Modernist Manifesto ."

The previous post's link to posts tagged March 8, 2018,
suggests a look at recent thoughts by a Melbourne academic:

Manifesto in Green and Red

(Continued … See “Is Fiction the Art of Lying?” by Mario Vargas Llosa, 
a New York Times  essay of October 7, 1984.)

"A non-fiction writer must have the freedom
to imagine the facts they [sic ] use."

Sure they must.

Who you gonna call?

Continued from Halloween Manifestos 2013 and from Poster —

Related material:  The Lindbergh Manifesto and The Leibniz Medal.

See also Cruz and the Coeur d'Alene Manifesto —

The previous three posts —

• A Manifesto for Mira
• Putting the Globe in Global
• Back to the Blackboard

​— suggest a review of a post from April 11, 2015:

Michael Starbird on Mathematics —

In Starbird's philosophical fable, the "fifth element" is change .
See also the recent post White Mischief.

"The Manifesto of Futurism  Revisited" —     

Related material — "Manifesto" in this  journal — 
                                 more specifically, "Manifest O."

The phrase GET SPIKED BY EMAIL* above suggests a review of
"Something in the Way She Moves" and "Marissa and the Dropbox."

See also …

Marissa Mayer, not amused —

* "Get spiked in your inbox every Friday for free."

Illustration from The New York Times  of the
book discussed in today's noon post , subtitled

Four Big Ideas and How
They Made the Modern World  —

Related enumerative rhetoric:  The Starbird Manifesto.

In memory of a woman who died on August 5th:

An excerpt from Svetlana Boym’s

“Nostalgic Technology:
Notes for an Off-modern Manifesto” —

For further remarks on art and technology,
see posts tagged Stevens Owl.

See also Wenders and Lindbergh in this journal.

See also…

Spelling Bee:
Manifesto I vs. Manifesto II—

I   The Commonist Manifesto
II  The Anti-Commonist Manifesto

Google's Choice:

The People's Choice:

From University Book Store, Seattle, Washington—

Related material—

From a page on Reality Hunger: A Manifesto  at DavidShields.com—

"The book's epigraph is a statement from Picasso: 'All art is theft.'"

Update of 3 PM EDT April 7—

"… we get inspiration from everywhere, and there's a bright line between inspiration and slavish imitation. (I was going to throw in the Picasso quote 'All art is theft' here, but I've looked that up in both the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (and the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, just in case) and in the new Yale Book of Quotations, and can't find it. So I'll just have to steal without the glamour of Picasso having said it was okay.)"

— Weblog post by Erin McKean

"Epistulae ad familiares" (adfamiliares for short) at livejournal.com—

"Prefatory notes evoke a Republic of Letters— or at least an academic support group— in which the writer claims membership. In fact, they often describe something much more tenuous, the group of those who the author wishes had read his work, offered him references, or at least given him the time of day. Hence they retain something of the literary— not to say fictional— quality of traditional poets' prayers." (Anthony Grafton, The Footnote: A Curious History)

P.S. This book rules.  Why did I wait so long to read it?

* See a definition. See also this  journal's previous post, Patterns in the Carpets. As for "those who the author wishes had read his work," see a quotation from an author mentioned in that post, Greg Egan, that seems relevant to the suicide outside Harvard's Memorial Church last Saturday during the morning Yom Kippur service—

… The word "transhumanism" (or, even worse, "posthumanism") sounds like a suicide note for the species, which effectively renders it a political suicide note for any movement by that name. No doubt there are people prepared to spend 90% of their time and energy explaining that they didn't intend  any negative connotations, but this is not one of those cases where other people will be to blame if "transhumanists" are reviled as the enemies of humanity on purely linguistic grounds. It's no use people proclaiming "Please, read my 1,000-page manifesto, don't just look at one word!"….

— Greg Egan on April 23, 2008,** at Metamagician and the Hellfire Club

Related material— A livejournal note on the Memorial Church suicide, nihilism, and a "final crux."

** Footnote to a footnote— See also Log24 on April 23, 2008— Shakespeare's birthday.

 
Two reviews from the February 2008 Notices of the American Mathematical Society:

From a review of

A Certain Ambiguity
(A Mathematical Novel)
by Gaurav Suri and Hartosh Singh Bal
Princeton University Press
Hardcover, US$27.95, 281 pages —

“From the Habermas-Lyotard debate (see [1] for an introduction) to the Sokal hoax ([4]), to recent atheist manifestos on the bestseller lists (e.g., [2]) the question of foundations for intellectual thought and especially for intellectual debate has never been more critical or urgent.”

[1] M. Bérubé, What’s Liberal about the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education, W. W. Norton, 2006.
[2] S. Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation, Knopf, 2006.
[4] A. Sokal and P. Bricmont, Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science, Picador, 1999.

— Danny Calegari of Caltech

Also in the February Notices– a review of a book, Superior Beings: If They Exist, How Would We Know?, in which the author

“.. uses elementary ideas from game theory to create situations between a Person (P) and God (Supreme Being, SB) and discusses how each reacts to the other in these model scenarios….

In the ‘Revelation Game,’ for example,
the Person (P) has two options:
1) P can believe in SB’s existence
2) P can not believe in SB’s existence
The Supreme Being also has two options:
1) SB can reveal Himself
2) SB can not reveal Himself….

… [and] goals allow us to rank all the outcomes for each player from best… to worst…. The question we must answer is: what is the Nash equilibrium in this case?”

The answer is what one might expect from the American Mathematical Society:

“… the dominant strategy for both is when SB does not reveal Himself and P does not believe in His existence.”

Other strategies are, of course, possible. See last year’s entries.

See also
the life of John Nash,

for whom the above
equilibrium is named.

ART WARS continued…

Braque

“The senses deform, the mind forms.  Work to perfect the mind.  There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.”

— Georges Braque, Reflections on Painting, 1917

Those who wish to follow Braque’s advice may try the following exercise from a book first published in 1937:

Hint: See the above picture of
Braque and the construction of
a tesseract.

Matrix Theory

“At the heart of The Matrix, buried under layers of cinema craft, is a meditation on the difference between essence and appearance. It’s a trip into Plato’s cave.”

— McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker Manifesto