Click the above images for the corresponding Log24 dates.
Sunday, April 2, 2023
Monday, July 11, 2022
Monday, April 18, 2022
For the Church of Perfect Coordinates*
https://blacklistdeclassified.net/2022/04/15/
%f0%9f%94%b4-script-916-helen-maghi/ —
Red: If I may offer some counsel –
“Do not go where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.”
In the spirit of that, I bring an unusual case….
This post is in honor of Thandiwe Newton,
who left a Westworld trail —
Vide Bulk Apperception.
* Cf. a post from Day 3 of 2022.
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Sunday, January 23, 2022
Apperception for Newton
"So we beat on, boats against the current…"
— The Great Gatsby
Thandie Newton in "Reminiscence" (2021) —
The above Screen Rant article is from August 20, 2021.
From that same date —
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Saturday, January 22, 2022
“Adapting our powers of apperception”
The title phrase is from the Friday update at the end of
Thursday's "New-Age Trinity" post.
It comes from a November 2017 doctoral thesis at Harvard.
Related philosophical insights —
"Bulk apperception" in this journal, inspired by Maeve of Westworld:
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Thursday, January 20, 2022
New-Age Trinity
"Taken together, vibe, mood, and energy formed
something like a loose philosophical system.
They presented the world as a swirl of forces
that eluded capture in rational thought, but that
could nevertheless be acutely sensed and even
influenced with the right kind of effort."
— Mitch Therieau in The Drift , Jan. 19, 2022 —
https://www.thedriftmag.com/vibe-mood-energy/ .
See as well Pacific Rimming and Black Sparrow.
Related cinematic lore:
Cailee Spaeny and The Drift in "Pacific Rim: Uprising," as well as . . .
Related tune: "Gimme the Beat Boys."
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Update of 4:16 PM ET Friday, Jan. 21, 2021 —
From https://dash.harvard.edu/
bitstream/handle/1/39988028/
GRIETZER-DISSERTATION-2017.pdf —
Ambient Meaning: Mood, Vibe, System
A dissertation presented by Peli Grietzer
to The Department of Comparative Literature
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in
the subject of Comparative Literature,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
November 2017 —
[Edited to emphasize key notions]
"On the picture that I am suggesting, there exists a reciprocity between
the structure of our sensibility or sensible cognition (system),
the structure of our affective life or social experience (mood),
and the structure of our social-material performance or production (style/vibe)
— a reciprocity whose approximate equilibrium or ‘metastable state’ binds
the cognitive, affective, and material aspects of life into a coherent lifeworld
or ‘totality.’ One way to tell the story of this reciprocity is as follows. The system
of our sensibility—our faculty of sensuous cognition that discloses objects, properties,
and patterns—recapitulates the structure of the social-material world. We continuously
calibrate our sensibility by attuning it to our social-material world’s dominant patterns
and forms, adapting our powers of apperception to the task of navigating our
social-material world." (Pp. 145-146.)
Compare and contrast the following trinities:
Related tune — Meat Loaf at the Ryman, "Two out of three ain't bad."
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Friday, January 7, 2022
Friday, August 20, 2021
Diamond Brackets*
For more on the phrase "diamond brackets," see the post
Artistic Style of July 24, 2018.
This was the dies natalis (in the Catholic sense) of philosophy
professor Garth L. Kemerling.
From Kemerling's internet "Philosophy Pages" —
"First, it must be possible in principle to arrange and organize
the chaos of our many individual sensory images by tracing
the connections that hold among them. This Kant called
the synthetic unity of the sensory manifold.
Second, it must be possible in principle for a single subject
to perform this organization by discovering the connections
among perceived images. This is satisfied by what Kant called
the transcendental unity of apperception."
Related Log24 phrases —
"Intake Manifold" and "Bulk Apperception."
* See also Bracketing (phenomenology) in Wikipedia.
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Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Only Connect : Bulk Apperception* Continues.
The above Vanity Fair article was republished on the Web by VF
on September 3, 2013. See also this journal on that date.
Related religious remarks —
* “Bulk apperception” is a phrase from Westworld. See Log24 notes.
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Saturday, September 26, 2020
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Apperception
From BUtterfield 8 (1960) —
From the 7/20/2017 post "Divided Attention" —
Another phrase for divided attention is "bulk apperception."
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Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Friday, May 31, 2019
Sunday, December 23, 2018
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Mira and the Intruders* Present …
Epiphany 2012: An Exercise
in Bulk Apperception
This post was suggested by . . .
a New Orleans song as played by Bix Beiderbecke,
by a trailer for a new Zemeckis film that appeared at YouTube
on the way to the New Orleans song, and by
the longing for Bix by Mira Sorvino in "Intruders."
The YouTube Bix date, Jan. 6, 2012, suggested a trip back
to that date via a Zemeckis Cube (see "Ready Player One.")
From Log24 on Epiphany 2012 —
A version of the Zemeckis Cube —
From the Zemeckis trailer —
* See a Log24 search for Mira + Intruders.
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Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Raiders of the Lost Images
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" —
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Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Stoned: A Reading for St. Stephen’s Day
See also Log24 posts now tagged Apperception.
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Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Midnight Special
From a Log24 search for "Midnight Special."
Update of 12:45 AM the same night —
"I appreciate simple, iconic and timeless forms —
things that can adapt or serve multiple purposes
and avoid being easily labelled. At the same time,
I love parts and fragments that reveal how things
move or work. Mostly, anything that tells its
own story and isn’t generalized or clad in some
sort of ornamental icing."
— Charlottesville, VA, architect Fred Wolf, who seems
to have been associated with the business name
"Gauss LLC " in Charlottesville.
And I appreciate bulk apperception.
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Thursday, July 20, 2017
Divided Attention
The previous post alluded to the phrase "undivided attention."
An example of divided attention —
The "Orphan Black" scene (at right above) is from a post, "Art's Space,"
of Saturday, July 15, 2017. The themes of the Orphan Black series —
in the context of Silicon Valley, not of Orphan Black — were discussed
in the Los Angeles Review of Books on Monday, July 17, 2017. Other
Silicon Valley themes appear in the recent film "The Circle" (at left above).
Another phrase for divided attention is "bulk apperception."
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Undeniable
From "Silicon Valley’s Bonfire of the Vainglorious"
By W. Patrick McCray in the Los Angeles Review of Books
on Monday, July 17, 2017 —
"Whether people are information, chemistry, or indeed
'spirit' or 'soul' has kept stoned undergraduates talking
into the wee hours and philosophers employed, but
there’s now an undeniable commercial aspect to all of
this."
"You have my (divided) attention." — The Singularity.
(See the link on "At" in this journal on Monday.)
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Monday, July 17, 2017
Athens Meets Jerusalem . . .
At the Googleplex .
For those whose only interest in higher mathematics
is as a path to the occult …
Plato's Diamond and the Hebrew letter Aleph —
and some related (if only graphically) mathematics —
Click the above image for some related purely mathematical remarks.
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Friday, June 23, 2017
Annals of Art and Design
The life of Mr. Breder is not unrelated to that of Carl Andre.
See also, in this journal, Bulk Apperception.
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Friday, June 2, 2017
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Reopening the Tesseract
Dialogue from the film "Interstellar" —
Cooper: Did it work?
TARS: I think it might have.
Cooper: How do you know?
TARS: Because the bulk beings
are closing the tesseract.
Related material — "Bulk apperception"
in this journal, and …
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017
About
From a post of March 16, 2017 —
"Bulk apperception" is defined in the Westworld script
as "basically, overall intelligence." The phrase is apparently
unique to Westworld.
These two words do, however, nearly occur together
in at least one book — Andrew Feffer's The Chicago
Pragmatists and American Progressivism :
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
“Bulk Apperception”
"By groping toward the light we are made to realize
how deep the darkness is around us."
— Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy ,
Random House, 1973, page 118
"Dear boys — We’re going to have some fun, aren’t we?"
— Maeve in "Westworld," Season 1, Episode 6,
after her "bulk apperception" has been upgraded
to the maximum.
"Bulk apperception" is defined in the script as "basically,
overall intelligence." The phrase is apparently unique to "Westworld."
These two words do, however, nearly occur together in
at least one book — Andrew Feffer's The Chicago Pragmatists
and American Progressivism :
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