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Sunday, December 17, 2023

Sternwürfel 101 — “A Full Course of Instruction”

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:57 pm

See also . . .

https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/joris/todtnauberg.html

and Sternwürfel  in this  journal.

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Star Cube Variations

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:55 am

Saturday, February 27, 2021

The Pencil Case

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:55 pm

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

Monday, May 13, 2019

Star Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:00 pm

"Before time began . . . ." — Optimus Prime

Doris Day at the Hudson Rock

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

" '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 —

Friday, March 1, 2019

Solomon and the Image

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 2:27 am

"Maybe an image is too strong
Or maybe is not strong enough."

— "Solomon and the Witch,"
      by William Butler Yeats

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Articulation

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:30 pm

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 —

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Ethno-Aesthetics

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:04 pm

"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 …

IMAGE- Stella Octangula and Claude Levi-Strauss

Related theoretical material — See Hudson + Tetrahedra.

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