See Sternwürfel .
Update at 7 AM:
Monday, May 27, 2024
The Sternwürfel Variations
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Sunday, December 17, 2023
Sternwürfel 101 — “A Full Course of Instruction”
See also . . .
https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/joris/todtnauberg.html
and Sternwürfel in this journal.
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Friday, May 31, 2024
Art for Space Hoarders
"Minimalists are actually extreme hoarders:
they hoard space." — Douglas Coupland,
quoted here on May 18, 2017.
More-recent minimalist art —
In honor of the above Villains of Valley View, posts of June 3, 2022,
have now been tagged VVV Day.
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Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Saturday, February 27, 2021
The Pencil Case
Clue
Here is a midrash on “desmic,” a term derived from the Greek desmé
( δέσμη: bundle, sheaf , or, in the mathematical sense, pencil —
French faisceau ), which is related to the term desmos , bond …
(The term “desmic,” as noted earlier, is relevant to the structure of
Heidegger’s Sternwürfel .)
“Gadzooks, I’ve done it again!” — Sherlock Hemlock
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Monday, May 13, 2019
Doris Day at the Hudson Rock
" 'My public image is unshakably that of
America’s wholesome virgin, the girl next door,
carefree and brimming with happiness,'
she said in Doris Day: Her Own Story ,
a 1976 book . . . ."
From "Angels & Demons Meet Hudson Hawk" (March 19, 2013) —
From the March 1 post "Solomon and the Image," a related figure —
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Friday, March 1, 2019
Solomon and the Image
"Maybe an image is too strong
Or maybe is not strong enough."
— "Solomon and the Witch,"
by William Butler Yeats
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Thursday, September 29, 2016
Articulation
Cassirer vs. Heidegger at Harvard —
A remembrance for Michaelmas —
A version of Heidegger’s “Sternwürfel ” —
From Log24 on the upload date for the above figure —
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Ethno-Aesthetics
"Lévi-Strauss is an infatuated aesthetician."
— Boris Wiseman, Lévi-Strauss, Anthropology and Aesthetics ,
Cambridge University Press, 2007, p. 27
Last night's link from the Piper Laurie image leads to …
Related theoretical material — See Hudson + Tetrahedra.
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