For the title, see other posts tagged Super-8.
Click image for some background.
Related material —
The new URL supercube.space forwards to http://box759.wordpress.com/.
The term supercube is from a 1982 article by Solomon W. Golomb.
The related new URL supercube.group forwards to a page that
describes how the 2x2x2 (or eightfold, or "super") cube's natural
underlying automorphism group is Klein's simple group of order 168.
For further context, see the new URL supercube.art.
For some background, see the phrase Cube Space in this journal.
A David Mamet line from last night's 11:02 PM ET post —
"Something to do with an early computer." This suggests . . .
"The metaphor for metamorphosis no keys unlock." — Cullinane, 1986
See as well a different Franz.
From a post at midnight on the night of Jan. 7-8, 2018:
"The resulting figures look rather unimpressive
until they are superimposed, but then they yield
a variety of surprisingly orderly figures."
Context: See the tag The Overnight Case .
See as well a search in this journal for "Double Day."
Geometry for Jews continues.
The conclusion of Solomon Golomb's
"Rubik's Cube and Quarks,"
American Scientist , May-June 1982 —
Related geometric meditation —
Archimedes at Hiroshima
in posts tagged Aitchison.
* As opposed to Solomon's Cube .
From a post of Feb. 24 —
From a search for "Preparation" in this journal (see previous post) —
"It is almost inevitable to compare this book to Borevich-Shafarevich
Number Theory . The latter is a fantastic book which covers a large
superset of the material in Cohn's book. Borevich-Shafarevich is,
however, a much more demanding read and it is out of print.
For gentle self-study (and perhaps as a preparation to later read
Borevich-Shafarevich), Cohn's book is a fine read."
"I meant a larger map." — Number Six in "The Prisoner" (1967)
Presbyterian elder Reubin Askew was called “Jesus Christ Supersquare”
after completing his first year as governor of Florida—
Now Askew has completed his life.
See also other instances of “Super” in this journal.
Update of 10:30 AM March 13 —
For those who like puzzles, here is yet another
instance of “Super,” this one related to the pattern
in last evening’s post Obiter Dictum —
Readings for tonight, the Night of the Supermoon—
James Hillman
EGALITARIAN TYPOLOGIES
VERSUS THE PERCEPTION OF THE UNIQUE
“The kind of movement Olson urges is an inward deepening of the image,
an in-sighting of the superimposed levels of significance within it.
This is the very mode that Jung suggested for grasping dreams —
not as a sequence in time, but as revolving around a nodal complex.”
See as well "True Grids" (Log24, August 9, 2018).
The Wikipedia "Truchet tiles" article shown above illustrates Hillman's
"superimposed levels of significance."
For more levels, see Wang on Gõdel and other posts tagged For Stella Maris.
Below — The New York Times quotes its 1947 article on the opening
of a new college FM radio station. Vide the full article, in which the apt
Scylla-Charybdis metaphor was based on remarks by a Fordham Jesuit.
"Mephistopheles is not your name
I know what you're up to just the same
I will listen hard to your tuition
You will see it come to its fruition"
— Sting
The Fordham Jesuit of 1947 seems greatly superior to the Jesuits of today.
See Fordham in this journal.
Update of 1:57 AM ET Tuesday, October 22, 2024 —
See "Jesuit West Side" Story.
From the post Belgian Puzzle Art —
Related reading . . .
— "The Devil, unlike the angels, was at home in the world of phenomena.
He knew how to combine pure concepts with empirical intuitions …
which is the basic principle of linguistic creation."
(Noah Jonathan Jacobs, Naming-Day in Eden, Macmillan, 1958 …
In Macmillan 1969 revised edition, page 21.)
The figure of 25 parts discussed in
"On Linguistic Creation"–
— "Such is the square dance of Numbers."
(Jacques Derrida, Dissemination, 1972)
— "It all adds up."
(Saul Bellow, book title, 1994)
From a post, now private, in this journal on June 17, 2024 —
James Hillman
EGALITARIAN TYPOLOGIES
VERSUS THE PERCEPTION OF THE UNIQUE
“The kind of movement Olson urges is an inward deepening of the image,
an in-sighting of the superimposed levels of significance within it.
This is the very mode that Jung suggested for grasping dreams —
not as a sequence in time, but as revolving around a nodal complex.”
See as well "True Grids" (Log24, August 9, 2018).
Headline from The Independent —
Why we don’t let compassion get in
The Sicilian superyacht disaster proves one thing – Tuesday 20 August 2024 14:12 BST |
Related reading . . . Other posts now tagged "Original Conspiracy."
Wikipedia — In the original Tom Clancy novel of "The Sum of All Fears"
"The East Germans hope that the war will eliminate both superpowers
and punish the Soviets for betraying World Socialism . . . ."
In the film, the villainy originates NOT with communist East Germans,
but instead with an international conspiracy of neo-fascists.
(LA premiere — May 29, 2002).
The Puccini song "Nessun Dorma" played at the end of the film
is, in the film plot, a favorite of the fascists. It was also featured
at the balloon-drop ending of the Republican National Convention
after midnight on Friday morning, July 19, 2024.
Flashback to April 12, 2011 —
In the landscape of minimalism, John McCracken cuts a unique figure. He is often grouped with the “light and space” artists who formed the West Coast branch of the movement. Indeed, he shares interests in vivid color, new materials, and polished surfaces with fellow Californians enamored of the Kustom Kar culture. On the other hand, his signature works, the “planks” that he invented in 1966 and still makes today, have the tough simplicity and aggressive presence of New York minimalism…. “They kind of screw up a space because they lean,” McCracken has said of the planks. Their tilting, reflective surfaces activate the room, leaving the viewer uncertain of traditional boundaries. He notes that the planks bridge sculpture (identified with the floor) and painting (identified with the wall)…. His ultimate goal, as with all mystics, is unity— not just of painting and sculpture, but of substance and illusion, of matter and spirit, of art and life. Such ideas recall the utopian aspirations of early modernists like Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky. Related Art —
Unity
—Roman numeral I For a related figure, see a film review by A. O. Scott at The New York Times (September 21, 2010)— “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger” begins with an unseen narrator— , sounding a lot like — paraphrasing . You may remember the quotation from high school English, about how life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. The observation is attributed to the playwright himself (“Shakespeare once said”), rather than to Macbeth, whose grim experience led him to such nihilism, but never mind. In context, it amounts to a perfectly superfluous statement of the obvious.If life signifies nothing, perhaps the tall dark figure above signifies something . Discuss. |
Related (if only phonetically) drama . . . Detective Cruz at Planck's Café.
"At the present time there is no direct experimental evidence
that supersymmetry is a fundamental symmetry of nature . . . ."
— Introduction to the 1983 book
Superspace or One Thousand and One Lessons in Supersymmetry
Also from 1983 . . .
For direct experimental evidence of this symmetry, see . . .
From the 1983 introduction, a caveat lector :
"At the present time there is no direct experimental evidence that supersymmetry is a fundamental symmetry of nature, but the current level of activity in the field indicates that many physicists share our belief that such evidence will eventually emerge. On the theoretical side, the symmetry makes it possible to build models with (super)natural hierarchies. On esthetic grounds, the idea of a superunified theory is very appealing. Even if supersymmetry and supergravity are not the ultimate theory, their study has increased our understanding of classical and quantum field theory, and they may be an important step in the understanding of some yet unknown, correct theory of nature." |
The website PopAi.pro uses GPT-4 to summarize documents from the Web.
Input at PopAi on May 2, 2024:
The URL "http://www.log24.com/log/Diamond_Theory-1976-pp-1-12.pdf"
Output at PopAi, after a quick reading and analysis by GPT-4:
Diamond_Theory-1976-pp-1-12.pdf 12 Pages The document appears to be an excerpt from a preprint titled "Diamond Theory" by Steven H. Cullinane, dated 1976. The text discusses theoretical aspects of matrices composed of geometric figures, focusing on properties related to symmetry, permutations, and abstract structure. Main Concepts and Definitions: The author introduces the concept of a "geometric matrix," a matrix whose elements are geometric figures, specifically triangular subsets of a square. He defines a "diamond" as a foursquare matrix with triangular elements. The text details the remarkable properties of a diamond-like matrix D, including its symmetrical behavior under various permutations of elements, rows, columns, and sub-squares. Additionally, the text addresses the algebraic properties of matrices by relating their elements to those of a finite field. Theoretical Properties and Theorems: Several key theorems are proposed, demonstrating the structural properties of matrices. One fundamental theorem states that any matrix from a set F can be expressed as a linear combination of block matrices. Other theorems delve into the regularity of matrices, defining a matrix as "regular" if it remains unchanged or converts to its complement under certain flips and rotations. The text also describes the process of forming a "normal" matrix and the conditions under which matrices can be considered plaid or normal based on the behavior of their block maps and regularities. Applications and Miscellaneous Problems: The author reflects on the discovery of these properties during the process of creating an abstract painting and extends the exploration to include various types of matrices such as cyclic, quadratic, and skew foursquares. The document concludes with miscellaneous problems and an addendum on generalized matrix multiplication, suggesting further research directions and applications of the theory presented. In summary, "Diamond Theory" presents an intricate analysis of the structural and algebraic properties of matrices composed of geometric shapes, with implications for other mathematical domains. The work is a blend of geometry and abstract algebra, providing a foundation for understanding the symmetry and transformations of matrices with an artistic origin. Some questions you may ask: What properties of the diamond-like matrix D did the author discover in 1975? What is the relationship between the properties of D and the four group according to the document? How does the document define a 'good set' of four black and white geometric figures? What theorem is used to explain the behavior of superimposing two members of Mn(F) according to the document? |
Transcription —
(With one correction … The Meta.ai phrase "the group of 322,560"
was changed to "a group of 322,560" … and one addition — the
acronym MOG was defined. Superscript numerals for missing footnotes
were removed.)
You What is the Cullinane diamond theorem? Meta AI The Cullinane diamond theorem states that every image of D (a 4×4 array of two-color diagonally divided square tiles) under the group G (a group of 322,560 permutations of these 16 tiles) has some ordinary or color-interchange symmetry. Here are some key points about the theorem :
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"The title of the book … is taken from a speech by Mephistopheles in Goethe’s Faust. As translated by Carlyle F. MacIntyre (New Directions, 1941), the speech is this: I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to light, that supercilious light which now disputes with Mother Night her ancient rank and space, and yet can not succeed; no matter how it struggles, it sticks to matter and can’t get free. Light flows from substance, makes it beautiful; solids can check its path, so I hope it won’t be long till light and the world’s stuff are destroyed together."
— Vonnegut, Kurt. Mother Night: A Novel |
Mutternacht , as opposed to Mutter Nacht , is tonight,
the night of December 20-21, Winter Solstice Eve.
See "Cube Space" + Lovasz.
This search was suggested by . . .
The conclusion of Solomon Golomb's
"Rubik's Cube and Quarks,"
American Scientist , May-June 1982 —
"Pint comes from the Old French word pinte and perhaps ultimately
from Vulgar Latin pincta meaning 'painted,' for marks painted on
the side of a container to show capacity.*
* "Pint," Merriam-Webster.com. 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2013."
"Ride a painted pony . . ." — Play It as It Lays song
"I love you Mony Mony . . . ." — Another song
James Hillman
EGALITARIAN TYPOLOGIES
VERSUS THE PERCEPTION OF THE UNIQUE
“The kind of movement Olson urges is an inward deepening of the image,
an in-sighting of the superimposed levels of significance within it.
This is the very mode that Jung suggested for grasping dreams —
not as a sequence in time, but as revolving around a nodal complex.”
. . . Or, sometimes, as . . .
From the American Mathematical Society today —
Robert Earl Tubbs (1954-2023)
May 15, 2023
"Tubbs, associate professor of mathematics at
the University of Colorado Boulder, died April 11, 2023,
at the age of 69. He received his PhD in 1981 from
Penn State University under the supervision of
W. Dale Brownawell. His research interests included
number theory, especially transcendental number theory,
the intellectual history of mathematical ideas and mathematics,
and the humanities."
This journal on the dies natalis of Tubbs had the third of three
posts tagged "Space and Form." Those posts dealt with European
cultural history related to Tubbs's interests. The "Space and Form"
posts, along with today's previous Log24 post, suggest a review of
the Nov. 10, 2021 post titled European Culture. An image from that post —
Those who share Cassirer's enthusiasm for myth may regard the
above Josefine Lyche version of my work as a sort of "secret writing,"
to quote a phrase of Cassirer's I find very distasteful. But there is nothing
secret about it, although there is some resemblance to written characters.
This post's title was suggested by a Salinger quote in the European Culture post.
Update on the next day, May 17 —
Further reading in Cassirer's Mythical Thought indicates that in the
passages above, on Schelling, he may be presenting a parody of
Schelling when he writes "a poem hidden behind a wonderful
secret writing." Later, on page 10, he asks, sensibly,
"… is there, perhaps, a means of retaining the question
put forward by Schelling's Philosophie der Mythologie
but of transferring it from the sphere of a philosophy of
the absolute to that of critical philosophy?"
There has reportedly been "an upsurge of interest" in Cassirer —
"In the digital cafeteria where AI chatbots mingle,
Perplexity AI is the scrawny new kid ready to
stand up to ChatGPT, which has so far run roughshod
over the AI landscape. With impressive lineage, a wide
array of features, and a dedicated mobile app, this
newcomer hopes to make the competition eat its dust."
— Jason Nelson at decrypt.co, April 12, 2023
What Barnes actually wrote:
"The final scene — the death of Simone most movingly portrayed,
I understand, by Geraldine Librandi, for the program did not specify
names — relied on nothing but light gradually dying to a cold
nothingness of dark, and was a superb theatrical coup."
Saturday, September 17, 2016
A Box of Nothing
|
For those who prefer comedy —
Related search results —
From a different Adelson, in a Log24 post from 2003 —
Related geometric entertainment —
"Rubik's Cube, and the simpler [2x2x2] Super Cube, represent
one form of mathematical and physical reality."
— Solomon W. Golomb, "Rubik's Cube and Quarks:
Twists on the eight corner cells of Rubik's Cube
provide a model for many aspects of quark behavior,"
American Scientist , Vol. 70, No. 3 (May-June 1982), pp. 257-259
From the last (Nov. 14, 2022) of the Log24 posts now tagged Groups and Spaces —
From the first (June 21, 2010) of the Log24 posts now tagged Groups and Spaces —
Also on the above Berlin date —
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
|
The above is about a subspace of the
24-dimensional vector space over GF(2)
. . . "An entire world of just 24 squares,"
to adapt a phrase from other Log24
posts tagged "Promises."
Update of 1:45 AM ET Sept. 18, 2022 —
It seems* from a Magma calculation that
the resemblance of the above extended
cube-motif code to the Golay code is only
superficial.
Without the highly symmetric generating codewords that were added
to extend its dimension from 8 to 12, the cube-motifs code apparently
does , like the Golay code, have nonzero weights of only 8, 12, 16, and 24 —
Perhaps someone can prove there is no way that adding more generating
codewords can turn the cube-motif code into the Golay code.
* The "seems" is because I have not yet encountered any of these
relatively rare (42 out of 4096) purported weight-4 codewords. Their
apparent existence may be due to an error in my typing of 0's and 1's.
From the Stillwell remembrance, a Shenitzer quote —
"An English major may or may not be a novelist or a poet,
but would undoubtedly be expected to be able to evaluate
a novel or a poem. The term 'English major' implies some
historical, philosophical, and evaluative training and
competence. It is sad but true that the term 'mathematician'
does not imply corresponding training and competence."
Related material — The previous post, and posts tagged Super-8.
From a Toronto Star video on the Langlands program —
From a review of the 2017 film "Justice League" —
"Now all they need is to resurrect Superman (Henry Cavill),
stop Steppenwolf from reuniting his three Mother Cubes
(sure, whatever) and wrap things up in under two cinematic
hours (God bless)."
See also the 2018 film "Avengers of Justice: Farce Wars."
See Osterman and Brosterman.
Logline for Osterman Meets Brosterman! — See Super-8.
"Living in Los Angeles is living in the cradle of the industry I fantasized about being a part of since my father gifted me his Sears Super-8 movie camera when I was seven years old. Hollywood is a city but it is also a mythology. A magical fantasy. A living dream. And yes, a dream is a mere sigh away from becoming a nightmare. Many tears have been shed around this town. They’ve been watering the soil for generations, adding more lush green to this transient desert mirage. As Nathanael West wrote in his ode to those on the fringes of Hollywood in his 1939 novel, The Day of the Locust , ‘Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.' " — Adam Rifkin, quoted on Jan. 25, 2022 |
See related remarks from a different author in a Log24 search
for a John O'Hara title, "Hope of Heaven."
"Black art" → "Black magic"
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2022-05-28/
Keasha Dumas Heath, executive director at
Keasha Dumas Health, executive supervisor at |
Consider the source.
"Edward Bulwer-Lytton (infamous author of the opening line,
'It was a dark and stormy night') was a Victorian-era writer.
In 1870, he published a science fiction novel, The Power of
the Coming Race, which describes an underground race of
superhuman angel-like creatures and their mysterious energy
force, Vril, an 'all-permeating fluid' of limitless power."
— From a source linked-to in the post Vril Chick.
"Credit where credit is due" . . .
See box-space.design.
Related cinematic remarks —
From Third Text , 2013, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 774–785 — "Genealogy of the Image in Histoire(s) du Cinéma : Godard, Warburg and the Iconology of the Interstice" * * * * P. 777 — Godard conceives of the image only in the plural, in the intermediate space between two images, be it a prolonged one (in Histoire(s) there are frequent instances of black screens) or a non-existent one (superimposition, co-presence of two images on screen). He comments: ‘[For me] it’s always two, begin by showing two images rather than one, that’s what I call image, the one made up of two’ [18] and elsewhere, ‘I perceived . . . cinema is that which is between things, not things [themselves] but between one and another.’ [19] 18. Jean-Luc Godard and Youssef Ishaghpour, "Archéologie du cinéma et mémoire du siècle," Farrago ,Tours, 2000, p. 27. The title of this work is reflective of the Godardian agenda that permeates Histoire(s) . 19. Jean-Luc Godard, "Introduction à une véritable histoire du cinéma," Albatros , Paris,1980, p. 145 |
See as well Warburg in this journal.
"… Mathematics may be art, but to the general public it is
a black art, more akin to magic and mystery."
— Sir Michael Atiyah, quoted here on April 4, 2016.
Supercube.space, supercube.group, supercube.art.
See also the Supercube channel at are.na.
"The Cable Guy isn't necessarily the first one you would expect
to make a comeback, but that's exactly what he has done
this Sunday during the big game."
Related material — Cable Girl —
From The Atlantic on February 10, 2022 —
"Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem" —
What else is new?
From this journal on June 5, 2019 —
Also on June 5, 2019 —
"SS refers to SuperSpeed,
a new transfer rate…"
And then there is USB,
the Universal Serial Bus . . .
From a post of 11/11, 2003.
From the Log24 post Literary Notes (March 10, 2015) —
We’ve talked before about how feeling different from the people around us – “mutant” was the word you used – informs or underpins the burgeoning writer’s mentality. Could you expand on that? By mutant, I mean that state in childhood and adolescence of isolation, sometimes blissful, often bewildering, when you realize that you have little in common with the people closest to you – not because you are superior in intelligence or sensitivity, but because you perceive the world in an utterly different way, which you assume to be a failing on your part. It was only through reading and discovering characters who shared that feeling that I realized when I was about 14 that I wasn’t insane. And yes, I think that the sensation, the awareness and then the conviction that your perception of the world is not what might be called conventional, is essential to the making of an artist. It is a little like speaking a different language from the people around you – it affords you solitude, but it also means that you are sometimes misunderstood.
— From an interview by Glen Duncan |
Related superimposition —
Caption in the above image:
"It's me, Paul Newman, speeding by in my racing car."
See as well yesterday's All Souls' Day post Figure Studies .
"Play is not playing around." — Friedrich Fröbel
Except when it is . . .
Abbey Drucker, Figure Study in Motion , Instagram, Nov. 2, 2021.
Related graphic meditation —
"The resulting figures look rather unimpressive
until they are superimposed, but then they yield
a variety of surprisingly orderly figures."
A play by George Bernard Shaw is the source of the book title at
the end of the previous post — "Music is the brandy of the damned ."
This suggests a corresponding song title . . .
From the album "The Time of the Assassins."
The above image is not of the singer's own background.
"Similarities and parallels can be drawn between alebrijes
and various supernatural creatures from Mexico's indigenous
and European past." — Wikipedia on the subject of today's
Google Doodle.
"Today’s Doodle celebrates the 115th birthday of
a Mexican artist who turned his dreams into reality…."
Not always a good idea. See the novel in the previous post.
Update on April 20, 2021 —
The following was added today to the above summary:
“It describes a group of 322,560 permutations, later known as
‘the octad group,’ that now plays a role in speculative high-energy physics.
See Moonshine, Superconformal Symmetry, and Quantum Error Correction .”
From a post of August 30, 2015 —
“… recall the words of author Norman Mailer
that summarized his Harvard education —
‘At times, bullshit can only be countered
with superior bullshit.’ “
And at times, non-bullshit is required.
BS from The New York Times Friday on the mathematical fields
known as topology and analysis in the 1960s —
“The two fields seemed to be nearly irremediably divided,
because topology twists objects around, and analysis
needs them to be rigid.”
Some less ignorant remarks from 1986:
The above Gauss-Bonnet theorem (ca. 1848) is explained in a talk titled
“Analysis Meets Topology” labeled with the above Emma Stone date —
From a link in the previous post —
From Log24 on October 25, 2013 —
Rhetorical questions by art critic Michael Glover—
“Has this kind of abstraction to do with ideas
of the spiritual? Are we supposed to see behind
what we have here some kind of evidence of
superhuman energies at work in the universe?
Is this some kind of manifestation of the force
that through the green fuse drives the flower—
to quote a line from Dylan Thomas?”
Rhetorical answer —
New York magazine's "The Cut" —
BAD SCIENCE
JULY 14, 2016
Why It Took Social Science Years to Correct a Simple Error
About ‘Psychoticism’
By Jesse Singal
"What should we make of all of this? Partly, of course, this is
a story of conflicting personalities, of competitiveness between
researchers, of academics acting — let’s be frank — like dicks."
Or, worse, like New York Times reporter Benedict Carey —
A Theory About Conspiracy Theories
In a new study, psychologists tried to get a handle on the personality types that might be prone to outlandish beliefs.
By Benedict Carey, New York Times science reporter, . . . . The personality features that were solidly linked to conspiracy beliefs included some usual suspects: entitlement, self-centered impulsivity, cold-heartedness (the confident injustice collector), elevated levels of depressive moods and anxiousness (the moody figure, confined by age or circumstance). Another one emerged from the questionnaire that aimed to assess personality disorders — a pattern of thinking called “psychoticism.” Psychoticism is a core feature of so-called schizo-typal personality disorder, characterized in part by “odd beliefs and magical thinking” and “paranoid ideation.” In the language of psychiatry, it is a milder form of full-blown psychosis, the recurrent delusional state that characterizes schizophrenia. It’s a pattern of magical thinking that goes well beyond garden variety superstition and usually comes across socially as disjointed, uncanny or “off.”
In time, perhaps some scientist or therapist will try to slap a diagnosis on believers in Big Lie conspiracies that seem wildly out of line with reality. For now, Dr. Pennycook said, it is enough to know that, when distracted, people are far more likely to forward headlines and stories without vetting their sources much, if at all. |
Some elementary fact-checking reveals that historical definitions
of "psychoticism" vary greatly. Carey forwards this bullshit without
vetting his sources much, if at all.
James Hillman
EGALITARIAN TYPOLOGIES
VERSUS THE PERCEPTION OF THE UNIQUE
“The kind of movement Olson urges is an inward deepening of the image,
an in-sighting of the superimposed levels of significance within it.
This is the very mode that Jung suggested for grasping dreams —
not as a sequence in time, but as revolving around a nodal complex.”
See also posts tagged The Well.
Well, which is it, Hillman? Superimposing or revolving?
"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—
Writer Robert Avrech on director Brian De Palma —
“Both Brian and I greatly admire Alfred Hitchcock so we were
pretty much on the same page aesthetically. That’s how I came
to write Body Double , a superb thriller that immediately thrust
me into the Hollywood limelight.”
— https://www.opednews.com/populum/page.php?
f=Behind-the-Scenes-with-Hol-by-Joan-Brunwasser-
American-Jews_Hollywood_Interviews_Judaism-Jewish-
131219-897.html
Writer Robert Avrech on director Brian De Palma —
“Both Brian and I greatly admire Alfred Hitchcock so we were
pretty much on the same page aesthetically. That’s how I came
to write Body Double , a superb thriller that immediately thrust
me into the Hollywood limelight.”
— https://www.opednews.com/populum/page.php?
f=Behind-the-Scenes-with-Hol-by-Joan-Brunwasser-
American-Jews_Hollywood_Interviews_Judaism-Jewish-
131219-897.html
See also Avrech in this journal —
"Even when some parts of the show don’t feel like they’re working,
the production is always top notch and eye-popping. The score, too,
is top notch here, but it’s the use of Pink Floyd’s 'The Dark Side of
the Moon' that resonates most."
— Kevin Lever on the Westworld May 3 Season 3 finale
Image from Log24 posts tagged Spectral Valhalla —
“In his big book, Gravity [sic ], Wheeler puts our space
into what he calls superspace, and speculates on the
most basic physical laws which operate on superspace.
He comes to the (to me) surprising conclusion that the
rock-bottom laws are the laws of the propositional calculus!”
— Martin Gardner, letter to Donald E. Knuth, 8 January 1976,
on cover of Notices of the American Mathematical Society ,
March 2011 issue.
Fact check —
Related reading —
"I know then that the story is there, buried in what I call
my magma. It’s absolute chaos but the novel is in there,
lost in a mass of dead elements, superfluous scenes
that will disappear or scenes that are repeated several
times from different perspectives, with different characters.
It’s very chaotic and makes sense only to me. But the story
is born under there."
— Mario Vargas Llosa, interviewed in The Paris Review ,
Issue 116, Fall 1990
Vargas Llosa is the author of "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter."
See also a Log24 search for "Seix Barral."
For scriptwriter-related remarks by one Julia Carmel in yesterday's online
New York Times , see an obituary about a Tuesday, Feb. 25, death.
See also Log24 posts from Tuesday, Feb. 25, now tagged Deutsche Schule .
From Corrections: Jan. 1, 2020 —
The astronomy article, by Dennis Overbye, is dated Dec. 23* (a Monday).
The above reference to "Tuesday" is explained by the fine print
at the bottom of the Science Times article — "A version of this article
appears in print on [Tuesday] , Section D, Page 6 of the
New York edition with the headline: In Battle of Giant Telescopes,
Outlook for the U.S. Dims."
From the article as quoted on Thursday, Dec. 26,
at https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com —
"Now, as the wheels of the academic and government bureaucracy begin to turn, many American astronomers worry that they are following in the footsteps of their physicist colleagues. In 1993, Congress canceled the Superconducting Super Collider, and the United States ceded the exploration of inner space to Europe and CERN, which built the Large Hadron Collider, 27 miles in diameter, where the long-sought Higgs boson was eventually discovered. The United States no longer builds particle accelerators. There could come a day, soon, when Americans no longer build giant telescopes. That would be a crushing disappointment to a handful of curious humans stuck on Earth, thirsting for cosmic grandeur. In outer space, nobody can hear you cry." Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/science/telescopes-magellan-hawaii-astronomy.html |
Related material from this journal on April 2, 2019 —
Cover design by Greg Stadnyk, available in an animated gif.
* See also this journal on Dec. 23.
Frindle, Helen. The Sentient Shield . “But why, I am not aware or can’t remember anything; previous lives, contracts, whatever.” “Perhaps not, but the block has been removed. As I understand blocks are placed because the person would not be able to cope with the information of their past life, or lives, or experiences that may have been so terrible. It seems however that what is happening is that you are now needed to wake up and remember and that is why the block has been removed.” “Wake up. I don’t understand. I am sorry, I keep repeating myself but I don’t understand!” Maddy shook her herself and went quiet, she thought perhaps she needed to listen to Pam. “At this present time no, but it has been removed and you will begin to become, let’s say, more aware and remember.” “Remember what, here I go again, it seems like a riddle to me and I am beginning to feel very odd, in fact even a little frightened. It seems as if we are venturing into things that are rather supernatural.” |
Amen. See also The Crosswicks Curse.
Previously in Log24: Trudeau and the Story Theory of Truth.
More-recent remarks by Trudeau —
Bible Stories for Skeptics
Review
About the Author
Product details |
Log24 on the above publication date — July 6, 2014 —
For Harlan Kane
From this journal on Feb. 5, 2009:
"In the garden of Adding
live Even and Odd…
And the song of love's recision
is the music of the spheres."
— The Midrash Jazz Quartet in
City of God , by E. L. Doctorow (2000).
From this journal on the date of
the above post by Gavaler:
The Quantum Tesseract Theorem Revisited
"The secret is that the super-mathematician expresses by the anticommutation
of his operators the property which the geometer conceives as perpendicularity
of displacements. That is why on p. 269 we singled out a pentad of anticommuting
operators, foreseeing that they would have an immediate application in describing
the property of perpendicular directions without using the traditional picture of space.
They express the property of perpendicularity without the picture of perpendicularity.
Thus far we have touched only the fringe of the structure of our set of sixteen E-operators.
Only by entering deeply into the theory of electrons could I show the whole structure
coming into evidence."
A related illustration, from posts tagged Dirac and Geometry —
Compare and contrast Eddington's use of the word "perpendicular"
with a later use of the word by Saniga and Planat.
From Pi Day 2017 —
"Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard."
“God’s plan for man in this world is Adam and Eve,
not Adam and Steve.”
— The late William E. Dannemeyer, who reportedly
died at 89 on July 9, 2019.
Hollywood offers a second opinion —
— The garden of Eden. The birthplace of Adam and Eve and Steve. — Steve? Who's Steve? — Steve is the original supermodel. The first of the purebloods.
"It's very easy to say, 'Well, Jeff couldn't quite connect these dots,'"
director Jeff Nichols told BuzzFeed News. "Well, I wasn't actually
looking at the dots you were looking at."
— Posted on March 21, 2016, at 1:11 p.m,
Adam B. Vary, BuzzFeed News Reporter
"Magical arrays of numbers have been the talismans of mathematicians and mystics since the time of Pythagoras in the sixth century B.C. And in the 16th century, Rabbi Isaac ben Solomon Luria devised a cosmological world view that seems to have prefigured superstring theory, at least superficially. Rabbi Luria was a sage of the Jewish cabalist movement — a school of mystics that drew inspiration from the arcane oral tradition of the Torah.
According to Rabbi Luria's cosmology, the soul and inner life of the hidden God were expressed by 10 primordial numbers
— "Things Are Stranger Than We Can Imagine," |
A later article about this same William Boyd —
"In the end, it’s this indifference on the part of the tastemakers
that makes Boyd’s project a worthy one, pointing as it does to
their ability to treat as real whatever they choose, and to deny
the reality of other things simply by redirecting their gaze."
Also on November 14, 2011 —
"Cell 461" quote from Curzio Malaparte superimposed on a scene from
the 1963 Godard film "Le Mépris " ("Contempt") —
"The architecture… beomes closely linked to the script…."
Malaparte's cell number , 461, is somewhat less closely linked
to the phrase "eternal blazon" —
Irving was quoted here on Dec. 22, 2008 —
The Tale of
the Eternal Blazon
by Washington Irving
“Blazon meant originally a shield , and then
the heraldic bearings on a shield .
Later it was applied to the art of describing
or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper
manner; and finally the term came to signify
ostentatious display and also description or
record by words or other means . In Hamlet ,
Act I Sc. 5, the Ghost, while talking with
Prince Hamlet, says:
‘But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears of flesh and blood.’
Eternal blazon signifies revelation or description
of things pertaining to eternity .”
— Irving’s Sketch Book , p. 461
Update of 6:25 PM ET —
"Self-Blazon… of Edenic Plenitude"
(The Issuu text is taken from Speaking about Godard , by Kaja Silverman
and Harun Farocki, New York University Press, 1998, page 34.)
Casa Malaparte, also known as Villa Malaparte —
Related film image with architectural quotation superimposed —
Related art prose —
The New Yorker reviewing "Bumblebee" —
"There is one reliable source for superhero sublimity,
and it’s all the more surprising that it’s a franchise with
no sacred inspiration whatsoever but, rather, of purely
and unabashedly mercantile origins: the 'Transformers'
series, based on a set of toys, in which Michael Bay’s
exhilarating filmmaking offers phantasmagorical textures
of an uncanny unconscious resonance."
— Richard Brody on December 29, 2018
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime
Some backstory — A Riddle for Davos, Jan. 22, 2014.
See also the Verwandlungslehre link from the previous post
and The Hassenfeld Legacy (for Harlan Kane).
The title abbreviates* that of a collection of Wittgenstein's remarks:
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The above "spirit guide" was suggested by yesterday's post
on Knuth as Yoda and by the paper in today's previous post,
"Shadowhunter Tales."
This post's title, "CV," is from . . .
"Kiernan Brennan Shipka (born November 10, 1999)
is an American actress. She is best known for starring as
Sabrina Spellman on the Netflix supernatural horror series
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–present)." — Wikipedia
As noted here earlier, Shipka turned 18 on Nov. 10 last year.
From Log24 on that date —
Another 18th birthday in Story Space —
Screenshot of a tweet by space writer Shannon Stirone
posted at 10:57 PM ET October 12 —
See also NASA + Wiig.
Stirone has an opinion piece in today's online New York Times promoting NASA.
Discussing the Hubble Space Telescope, she claims that . . .
"Hubble peers deep into space, patiently collecting the universe’s traveling light,
then delivering it to us in never before seen images: galaxies, supernovas and
nebulae. It is a time machine. And without it we wouldn’t know we are inside
a galaxy that is just one of possibly trillions."
The previous post, "One Plus One," suggests some further
art-historical remarks on interality —
From Third Text , 2013, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 774–785 — "Genealogy of the Image in Histoire(s) du Cinéma : Godard, Warburg and the Iconology of the Interstice" * * * * P. 775 — My discussion will focus on the significance of the concept of the ‘space in-between,’ its importance for Godard’s work and its role in a relational historiography of images more broadly. I hope to corroborate how Godard functions as a twenty-first century archaeologist of the moving image, constructing a meta-cinematic collage that, while consisting of an indexing of (almost exclusively) pre-existing filmic samples, ends up becoming a hybrid work of art in its own right. Godard, in the final analysis, expands the Warburgian programme of iconology into that of a cinematographic iconology of the interstice. * * * * P. 777 — Godard conceives of the image only in the plural, in the intermediate space between two images, be it a prolonged one (in Histoire(s) there are frequent instances of black screens) or a non-existent one (superimposition, co-presence of two images on screen). He comments: ‘[For me] it’s always two, begin by showing two images rather than one, that’s what I call image, the one made up of two’ [18] and elsewhere, ‘I perceived . . . cinema is that which is between things, not things [themselves] but between one and another.’ [19] 18. Jean-Luc Godard and Youssef Ishaghpour, "Archéologie du cinéma et mémoire du siècle," Farrago ,Tours, 2000, p. 27. The title of this work is reflective of the Godardian agenda that permeates Histoire(s) . 19. Jean-Luc Godard, "Introduction à une véritable histoire du cinéma," Albatros , Paris,1980, p. 145 * * * * P. 783 — If it is in ‘the in-between’ that thought is born, then for Godard cinematography as ‘a form that thinks . . . was born with the advent of modern painting.’ [62] 62. Godard and Ishaghpour, op. cit., pp 45–46. * * * * P. 785 — Warburg commented on the signification of the black spaces that he placed between images in his analysis of the network of intervals in Mnemosyne , by quoting Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s dictum ‘the truth inhabits the middle space.’ [68] This citation induces a feeling of déjà-vu for the viewer of Histoire(s). The link was not missed by Warburg himself, as one of his diary entries testifies: ‘We can compare this phenomenon [the iconology of the interval] to that of the cinematic montage, the domain of the interpretation is an intervallic one.’ [69] 68. Warburg, Mnemosyne , pp 135–146. 69. Warburg is quoted in Didi-Huberman, L’image survivante, p. 503. (Georges Didi-Huberman, L’image survivante. Histoire de l’art et temps des fantômes selon Aby Warburg , Minuit, Paris, 2002) |
From The New York Times on June 20, 2018 —
" In a widely read article published early this year on arXiv.org,
a site for scientific papers, Gary Marcus, a professor at
New York University, posed the question:
'Is deep learning approaching a wall?'
He wrote, 'As is so often the case, the patterns extracted
by deep learning are more superficial than they initially appear.' "
See as well an image from posts tagged Quantum Suffering . . .
The time above, 10:06:48 PM July 16, is when I saw …
"What you mean 'we,' Milbank?"
"All our words from loose using
have lost their edge."
— Ernest Hemingway
"Cut! That was mint!"
— Line from "Super 8" (2011)
Related material — posts tagged Blacklist Thread.
Three hidden keys open three secret gates
Wherein the errant will be tested for worthy traits
And those with the skill to survive these straits
Will reach The End where the prize awaits
— Ready Player One , by Ernest Cline
“Look, my favorite expression is,
‘When you go up to the bell, ring it,
or don’t go up to the bell.’ …
We’ve gone too far. We have to ring the bell.”
— Mel Brooks on “The Producers”
in The New York Times today.
A 2016 Scribner edition of Stephen King’s IT —
Related material —
Mystery box merchandise from the 2011 J. J. Abrams film Super 8
Three hidden keys open three secret gates
Wherein the errant will be tested for worthy traits
And those with the skill to survive these straits
Will reach The End where the prize awaits
— Ready Player One , by Ernest Cline
Related text —
Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram
aedificabo ecclesiam meam et tibi
dabo claves regni caelorum
Related imagery —
From Steven Spielberg's film "Ready Player One" (2018) —
From this journal on June 17, 2003 —
From The New York Times on Easter night, 2007 —
See as well Rosalind Krauss on LeWitt:
A passage that may or may not have influenced Madeleine L'Engle's
writings about the tesseract :
From Mere Christianity , by C. S. Lewis (1952) —
"Book IV – Beyond Personality: I warned you that Theology is practical. The whole purpose for which we exist is to be thus taken into the life of God. Wrong ideas about what that life is, will make it harder. And now, for a few minutes, I must ask you to follow rather carefully. You know that in space you can move in three ways—to left or right, backwards or forwards, up or down. Every direction is either one of these three or a compromise between them. They are called the three Dimensions. Now notice this. If you are using only one dimension, you could draw only a straight line. If you are using two, you could draw a figure: say, a square. And a square is made up of four straight lines. Now a step further. If you have three dimensions, you can then build what we call a solid body, say, a cube—a thing like a dice or a lump of sugar. And a cube is made up of six squares. Do you see the point? A world of one dimension would be a straight line. In a two-dimensional world, you still get straight lines, but many lines make one figure. In a three-dimensional world, you still get figures but many figures make one solid body. In other words, as you advance to more real and more complicated levels, you do not leave behind you the things you found on the simpler levels: you still have them, but combined in new ways—in ways you could not imagine if you knew only the simpler levels. Now the Christian account of God involves just the same principle. The human level is a simple and rather empty level. On the human level one person is one being, and any two persons are two separate beings—just as, in two dimensions (say on a flat sheet of paper) one square is one figure, and any two squares are two separate figures. On the Divine level you still find personalities; but up there you find them combined in new ways which we, who do not live on that level, cannot imagine. In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube. Of course we cannot fully conceive a Being like that: just as, if we were so made that we perceived only two dimensions in space we could never properly imagine a cube. But we can get a sort of faint notion of it. And when we do, we are then, for the first time in our lives, getting some positive idea, however faint, of something super-personal—something more than a person. It is something we could never have guessed, and yet, once we have been told, one almost feels one ought to have been able to guess it because it fits in so well with all the things we know already. You may ask, "If we cannot imagine a three-personal Being, what is the good of talking about Him?" Well, there isn't any good talking about Him. The thing that matters is being actually drawn into that three-personal life, and that may begin any time —tonight, if you like. . . . . |
But beware of being drawn into the personal life of the Happy Family .
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24966339 —
"The colorful story of this undertaking begins with a bang."
And ends with …
"Galois was a thoroughly obnoxious nerd,
suffering from what today would be called
a 'personality disorder.' His anger was
paranoid and unremitting."
"Just fancy a scale model of Being
made out of string and cardboard."
— Nanavira Thera, 1 October 1957,
on a model of Kummer's Quartic Surface
mentioned by Eddington
"… a treatise on Kummer's quartic surface."
The "super-mathematician" Eddington did not see fit to mention
the title or the author of the treatise he discussed.
See Hudson + Kummer in this journal.
See also posts tagged Dirac and Geometry.
The title was suggested by the name "ARTI" of an artificial
intelligence in the new film 2036: Origin Unknown.
The Eye of ARTI —
See also a post of May 19, "Uh-Oh" —
— and a post of June 6, "Geometry for Goyim" —
Mystery box merchandise from the 2011 J. J. Abrams film Super 8
An arty fact I prefer, suggested by the triangular computer-eye forms above —
This is from the July 29, 2012, post The Galois Tesseract.
See as well . . .
Mystery box merchandise from the 2011 J. J. Abrams film Super 8 —
A mystery box that I prefer —
Click image for some background.
See also Nicht Spielerei .
Tom Wolfe in The Painted Word (1975) —
“I am willing (now that so much has been revealed!)
to predict that in the year 2000, when the Metropolitan
or the Museum of Modern Art puts on the great
retrospective exhibition of American Art 1945-75,
the three artists who will be featured, the three seminal
figures of the era, will be not Pollock, de Kooning, and
Johns-but Greenberg, Rosenberg, and Steinberg.
Up on the walls will be huge copy blocks, eight and a half
by eleven feet each, presenting the protean passages of
the period … a little ‘fuliginous flatness’ here … a little
‘action painting’ there … and some of that ‘all great art
is about art’ just beyond. Beside them will be small
reproductions of the work of leading illustrators of
the Word from that period….”
The above group of 322,560 permutations appears also in a 2011 book —
— and in 2013-2015 papers by Anne Taormina and Katrin Wendland:
From a Toronto Star video pictured here on April 1 three years ago:
The three connected cubes are labeled "Harmonic Analysis," 'Number Theory,"
and "Geometry."
Related cultural commentary from a review of the recent film "Justice League" —
"Now all they need is to resurrect Superman (Henry Cavill),
stop Steppenwolf from reuniting his three Mother Cubes
(sure, whatever) and wrap things up in under two cinematic
hours (God bless)."
The nineteenth-century German mathematician Felix Christian Klein
as Steppenwolf —
Volume I of a treatise by Klein is subtitled
"Arithmetic, Algebra, Analysis." This covers
two of the above three Toronto Star cubes.
Klein's Volume II is subtitled "Geometry."
An excerpt from that volume —
Further cultural commentary: "Glitch" in this journal.
The search for Langlands in the previous post
yields the following Toronto Star illustration —
From a review of the recent film "Justice League" —
"Now all they need is to resurrect Superman (Henry Cavill),
stop Steppenwolf from reuniting his three Mother Cubes
(sure, whatever) and wrap things up in under two cinematic
hours (God bless)."
For other cubic adventures, see yesterday's post on A Piece of Justice
and the block patterns in posts tagged Design Cube.
A scholium on the previous post, "Mother Ship Meets Mother Church" —
"Consider Saint Hedwig of Silesia (1174–1243), for example,
who is elegantly depicted in this catalogue, striking a pose
with her prayer book, rosary, and Virgin and child statue
(a reminder of the legitimacy of her sex), along with boots
slung over her elbow so she could walk barefoot like
the apostles. Between miracles, she was also known to
supervise construction of new convents. Hedwig is but
a snowflake on the iceberg of the extraordinary role of
actual women in the Middle Ages, to which more evidence
is added continually thanks the Feminae database."
On the recent film "Justice League" —
From DC Extended Universe Wiki, "Mother Box" —
"However, during World War I, the British rediscovered
mankind's lost Mother Box. They conducted numerous studies
but were unable to date it due to its age. The Box was then
shelved in an archive, up until the night Superman died,
where it was then sent to Doctor Silas Stone, who
recognized it as a perpetual energy matrix. . . ." [Link added.]
The cube shape of the lost Mother Box, also known as the
Change Engine, is shared by the Stone in a novel by Charles Williams,
Many Dimensions . See the Solomon's Cube webpage.
See too the matrix of Claude Lévi-Strauss in posts tagged
Verwandlungslehre .
Some literary background:
Who speaks in primordial images speaks to us
as with a thousand trumpets, he grips and overpowers,
and at the same time he elevates that which he treats
out of the individual and transitory into the sphere of
the eternal. — C. G. JUNG
"In the conscious use of primordial images—
the archetypes of thought—
one modern novelist stands out as adept and
grand master: Charles Williams.
In The Place of the Lion he incarnates Plato’s
celestial archetypes with hair-raising plausibility.
In Many Dimensions he brings a flock of ordinary
mortals face to face with the stone bearing
the Tetragrammaton, the Divine Name, the sign of Four.
Whether we understand every line of a Williams novel
or not, we feel something deep inside us quicken
as Williams tells the tale.
Here, in The Greater Trumps , he has turned to
one of the prime mysteries of earth . . . ."
— William Lindsay Gresham, Preface (1950) to
Charles Williams's The Greater Trumps (1932)
For fans of what the recent series Westworld called "bulk apperception" —
Ken Yuszkus, Salem News staff photo
SALEM — The former MIT professor from Hamilton
accused of trying to swindle his son’s widow and children
out of nearly $5 million pleaded not guilty to the charges
on Friday in Salem Superior Court.
John Donovan Sr., 75, was clutching a set of rosary beads
as he entered his plea before Judge Timothy Feeley.
Donovan was indicted last month by an Essex County grand jury
on 13 counts, including larceny, forgery and witness intimidation.
. . . .
— Julie Manganis, Salem News staff writer, Jan. 13, 2018
See also other posts tagged Systems Programming.
"Nowdays, Halloween involves plastic figures of ghosts and bats
bought from the supermarket; this is driven by commerce and
in some people’s view is an American import. But it is clear that
this time of year was traditionally regarded as one where the barrier
between this world and the other was low, and supernatural
manifestations were to be expected."
Remarks related to another "barrier" and vértigo horizontal —
See also a search for Horizon + "Western Australia" in this journal.
From that search: A sort of horizon, a "line at infinity," that is perhaps
more meaningful to most Cameron readers than the above remarks
by Borges —
Wikipedia: Taiji (philosophy) Etymology The word 太極 comes from I Ching : "易有太極,是生兩儀,兩儀生四象,四象生八卦,八卦定吉凶,吉凶生大業。" Taiji (太極) is a compound of tai 太 "great; grand; supreme; extreme; very; too" (a superlative variant of da 大 "big; large; great; very") and ji 極 "pole; roof ridge; highest/utmost point; extreme; earth's pole; reach the end; attain; exhaust". In analogy with the figurative meanings of English pole, Chinese ji 極 "ridgepole" can mean "geographical pole; direction" (e.g., siji 四極 "four corners of the earth; world's end"), "magnetic pole" (Beiji 北極 "North Pole" or yinji 陰極 "negative pole; cathode"), or "celestial pole" (baji 八極 "farthest points of the universe; remotest place"). Combining the two words, 太極 means "the source, the beginning of the world". Common English translations of the cosmological Taiji are the "Supreme Ultimate" (Le Blanc 1985, Zhang and Ryden 2002) or "Great Ultimate" (Chen 1989, Robinet 2008); but other versions are the "Supreme Pole" (Needham and Ronan 1978), "Great Absolute", or "Supreme Polarity" (Adler 1999). |
"God said to Abraham …." — Bob Dylan, "Highway 61 Revisited"
Related material —
See as well Charles Small, Harvard '64,
"Magic Squares over Fields" —
— and Conway-Norton-Ryba in this journal.
Some remarks on an order-five magic square over GF(52):
on the numbers 0 to 24:
22 5 18 1 14
3 11 24 7 15
9 17 0 13 21
10 23 6 19 2
16 4 12 20 8
Base-5:
42 10 33 01 24
03 21 44 12 30
14 32 00 23 41
20 43 11 34 02
31 04 22 40 13
Regarding the above digits as representing
elements of the vector 2-space over GF(5)
(or the vector 1-space over GF(52)) …
All vector row sums = (0, 0) (or 0, over GF(52)).
All vector column sums = same.
Above array as two
orthogonal Latin squares:
4 1 3 0 2 2 0 3 1 4
0 2 4 1 3 3 1 4 2 0
1 3 0 2 4 4 2 0 3 1
2 4 1 3 0 0 3 1 4 2
3 0 2 4 1 1 4 2 0 3
— Steven H. Cullinane,
October 16, 2017
From the online New York Times this morning —
"Origin is Mr. Brown’s eighth novel. It finds his familiar protagonist,
the brilliant Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconography
Robert Langdon, embroiled once more in an intellectually challenging,
life-threatening adventure involving murderous zealots, shadowy fringe
organizations, paradigm-shifting secrets with implications for the future
of humanity, symbols within puzzles and puzzles within symbols and
a female companion who is super-smart and super-hot.
As do all of Mr. Brown’s works, the new novel does not shy away from
the big questions, but rather rushes headlong into them."
— Profile of Dan Brown by Sarah Lyall
See also yesterday's Log24 post on the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels.
"She wrote her doctoral thesis, which was supervised
by Friedrichs, on the stability of a spherical implosion
and was awarded her Ph.D. in 1951."
— MacTutor
See also a related Google Image Search.
For images from the reported date of Morawetz's death,
see Theology for Child Buyers.
Update of 2:56 PM ET Friday, August 11, 2017 —
Legacy.com and NYU now report that Morawetz died
on Tue., Aug. 8, not, as the AMS reported, on Mon., Aug. 7.
(The AMS has now corrected its error.)
For sloppiness about mathematics that echoes this
sloppiness about dates, see a post of Tue., Aug. 8.
Excerpt from the above story —
"The project could also be a new frontier for Mr. Koons.
'It’s superconceptual,' said Judith Benhamou-Huet,
a French art critic and blogger, in that 'he’s giving
the concept but not the realization.' She compared
the approach to that of Sol LeWitt, who sold wall drawings
that buyers then executed on their own."
See also the previous post and Rota on Beauty.
* A reference to Truly Tasteless Jokes , by Blanche Knott
(Book 1 of 11, Ballantine Books paperback, May 1985, page 50).
Quixote Vive! — Terry Gilliam, June 4, 2017
Review of a post from March 7, 2017 —
"The supervisory read-only memory (SROM)
— Elliot Williams at Hackaday , March 4, 2017, From a reply to a comment on the above story —
"You are singing a very fearful and oppressive tune. A perhaps less oppressive tune —
Related scene — Richard Kiley in "Blackboard Jungle," 1955: |
Sounds like a job for Amy Adams.
Amy Adams at the Lancia Café in Taormina, Sicily, on June 15, 2013.
Adams was in Taormina for the Italian premiere of her Superman film.
From Balboa Press —
More than a pretty face designed to identify a product, a logo combines powerful elements super boosted with sophisticated branding techniques. Logos spark our purchasing choice and can affect our wellbeing. Lovingly detailed, researched and honed to deliver a specific intention, a logo contains a unique dynamic that sidesteps our conscious mind. We might not know why we prefer one product over another but the logo, designed to connect the heart of the brand to our own hearts, plays a vital part in our decision to buy. The power of symbols to sway us has been recognised throughout history. Found in caves and in Egyptian temples they are attributed with the strength to foretell and create the future, connect us with the divine and evoke emotions, from horror to ecstasy, at a glance. The new symbols we imbue with these awesome powers are our favourite brand logos. • Discover the unconscious effect of these modern symbols that thrust our most successful global corporations into the limelight and our lives. • Learn to make informed choices about brands. • Find out how a logo reflects the state of the brand and holds it to account. |
The date of the above remarks on a logo change, March 24, 2016,
suggests a review of a Log24 post from that date —
A Scottish physicist credited with key experimental work
in the sensing of space-time ripples has died, today's
online New York Times reports.
From a BBC obituary online on Wed., March 8, 2017 —
An unconventional R.I.P. from this journal on March 7,
the reported date of the ripple-seeker's death —
"The supervisory read-only memory (SROM)
in question is a region of proprietary code
that runs when the chip starts up,
and in privileged mode."
— Elliot Williams at Hackaday , March 4, 2017,
"Reading the Unreadable SROM"
Some R.I.P. backstory from a recent film, "Passengers" —
DECK TWO – LIBRARY – DAY
Aurora sits at a library workstation . . .
AURORA
What about research articles, any kind of
technical documents?
WORKSTATION
Hibernation technology is proprietary.
The following articles deal with the subject
on a theoretical level.
For a "theoretical level" I prefer, see a passage quoted in
the above March 7 Log24 post, "Hackaday Story" —
" You will find to the left of the House of Hades
a spring,
And by the side thereof standing
a white cypress.
To this spring approach not near.
But you shall find another,
from the lake of Memory
Cold water flowing forth, and there are
guardians before it.
Say, 'I am a child of Earth and starry Heaven;
But my race is of Heaven alone.
This you know yourselves.
But I am parched with thirst and I perish.
Give me quickly
The cold water flowing forth
from the lake of Memory.' "
See as well today's previous post.
A post suggested by remarks of J. D. Salinger in
The New Yorker of November 19, 1955 —
Wikipedia: Taiji (philosophy) Etymology The word 太極 comes from I Ching : "易有太極,是生兩儀,兩儀生四象,四象生八卦,八卦定吉凶,吉凶生大業。" Taiji (太極) is a compound of tai 太 "great; grand; supreme; extreme; very; too" (a superlative variant of da 大 "big; large; great; very") and ji 極 "pole; roof ridge; highest/utmost point; extreme; earth's pole; reach the end; attain; exhaust". In analogy with the figurative meanings of English pole, Chinese ji 極 "ridgepole" can mean "geographical pole; direction" (e.g., siji 四極 "four corners of the earth; world's end"), "magnetic pole" (Beiji 北極 "North Pole" or yinji 陰極 "negative pole; cathode"), or "celestial pole" (baji 八極 "farthest points of the universe; remotest place"). Combining the two words, 太極 means "the source, the beginning of the world". Common English translations of the cosmological Taiji are the "Supreme Ultimate" (Le Blanc 1985, Zhang and Ryden 2002) or "Great Ultimate" (Chen 1989, Robinet 2008); but other versions are the "Supreme Pole" (Needham and Ronan 1978), "Great Absolute", or "Supreme Polarity" (Adler 1999). |
See also Polarity in this journal.
* A phrase adapted, via Salinger,
from a poem by Sappho—
Ἴψοι δὴ τὸ μέλαθρον,
Υ᾽μήναον
ἀέρρετε τέκτονεσ ἄνδρεσ,
Υ᾽μήναον
γάμβροσ ἔρχεται ἶσοσ Ά᾽ρευϊ,
[Υ᾽μήναον]
ανδροσ μεγάλο πόλυ μείζων
[Υ᾽μήναον]
Cypress Spring
" You will find to the left of the House of Hades
a spring,
And by the side thereof standing
a white cypress.
To this spring approach not near.
But you shall find another,
from the lake of Memory
Cold water flowing forth, and there are
guardians before it.
Say, 'I am a child of Earth and starry Heaven;
But my race is of Heaven alone.
This you know yourselves.
But I am parched with thirst and I perish.
Give me quickly
The cold water flowing forth
from the lake of Memory.' "
"The supervisory read-only memory (SROM)
in question is a region of proprietary code
that runs when the chip starts up,
and in privileged mode."
— Elliot Williams at Hackaday , March 4, 2017,
"Reading the Unreadable SROM"
From a reply to a comment on the above story —
"You are singing a very fearful and oppressive tune.
You ought to try to get it out of your head."
A perhaps less oppressive tune —
Related scene —
Richard Kiley in "Blackboard Jungle," 1955:
See also the Go chip in this journal.
Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker today reacts to the startling
outcomes of three recent contests: the presidential election,
the Super Bowl, and the Oscar for Best Picture —
"The implicit dread logic is plain."
Related material —
Transformers in this journal and …
“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
See also …
The above figure is from Ian Stewart's 1996 revision of a 1941 classic,
What Is Mathematics? , by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins.
One wonders how the confused slave boy of Plato's Meno would react
to Stewart's remark that
"The number of copies required to double an
object's size depends on its dimension."
The previous post presented Plato's Meno diagram as
an illustration of (superimposed) yin and yang.
For those who prefer a more fluid approach to yin and yang —
From a June 15, 2016, Caltech news release on gravitational waves —
Audio The "chirp" tones of the two LIGO detections are available for download. Formats are suitable as ringtones for either iPhone or Android devices. (Instructions for installing custom ringtones) September 2015 Detection December 2015 Detection |
Related commentary from July 2015 and earlier —
See posts tagged Haiku.
A different perspective —
From RIP, a post of Wednesday, March 16, 2016 —
See also earlier posts tagged Sermon Weekend.
From Balboa Press —
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"Logos and logic, crystal hypothesis,
Incipit and a form to speak the word
And every latent double in the word…."
— Wallace Stevens,
"Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,"
Section I, Canto VIII
The novel Blood on Snow , set in Oslo, was published
by Knopf on April 7, 2015. This journal on that date —
Log24 on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 7:00 PM Seven years ago in this journal — |
A related image —
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