Saturday, June 10, 2023
Red Dot Award
Green Mountain, Red Mountain
Tom Wolfe on art theorists in The Painted Word (1975) :
"It is important to repeat that Greenberg and Rosenberg
did not create their theories in a vacuum or simply turn up
with them one day like tablets brought down from atop
Green Mountain or Red Mountain (as B. H. Friedman once
called the two men). As tout le monde understood, they
were not only theories but … hot news,
straight from the studios, from the scene."
Anthony Lane in The New Yorker on June 2, 2023 —
"The album cover was a minor but deliriously popular art form
that was limited not just by shape—a neat fit, incidentally, for
the square format favored by many modish photographers of
the sixties—but also by the prospect of its own inevitable death.
Technology gave, and technology hath taken away."
See as well a mountain along with red and green album covers
in this journal on June 8.
Some will prefer the green and red crystal from Melencolia I
(adapted from the uncolored original) on the cover of the
1948 edition of Doctor Faustus.
Green, Orange, Black
The colors surrounding Watson's body in the above
"bandeau" photo suggest a review. A search in this journal
for Green+Orange+Black yields . . .
In the above image, the "hard core of objectivity" is represented
by the green-and-white eightfold cube. The orange and black are,
of course, the Princeton colors.
Sunday, September 22, 2019
Colorful Tale
“Perhaps the philosophically most relevant feature of modern science
is the emergence of abstract symbolic structures as the hard core
of objectivity behind— as Eddington puts it— the colorful tale of
the subjective storyteller mind.”
— Hermann Weyl, Philosophy of Mathematics and
Natural Science , Princeton, 1949, p. 237
"The bond with reality is cut."
— Hans Freudenthal, 1962
From page 180, Logicomix — It was a dark and stormy night …
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Colorful Tales
“Perhaps the philosophically most relevant feature of modern science
is the emergence of abstract symbolic structures as the hard core
of objectivity behind— as Eddington puts it— the colorful tale of
the subjective storyteller mind.”
— Hermann Weyl, Philosophy of Mathematics and
Natural Science , Princeton, 1949, p. 237
Harvard University Press on the late Angus Fletcher, author of
The Topological Imagination and Colors of the Mind —
From the Harvard webpage for Colors of the Mind —
Angus Fletcher is one of our finest theorists of the arts,
the heir to I. A. Richards, Erich Auerbach, Northrop Frye.
This… book… aims to open another field of study:
how thought— the act, the experience of thinking—
is represented in literature.
. . . .
Fletcher’s resources are large, and his step is sure.
The reader samples his piercing vision of Milton’s
Satan, the original Thinker,
leaving the pain of thinking
as his legacy for mankind.
A 1992 review by Vinay Dharwadker of Colors of the Mind —
See also the above word "dianoia" in The Echo in Plato's Cave.
Some context …
This post was suggested by a memorial piece today in
the Los Angeles Review of Books —
A Florilegium for Angus Fletcher
By Kenneth Gross, Lindsay Waters, V. N. Alexander,
Paul Auster, Harold Bloom, Stanley Fish, K. J. Knoespel,
Mitchell Meltzer, Victoria Nelson, Joan Richardson,
Dorian Sagan, Susan Stewart, Eric Wilson, Michael Wood
Fletcher reportedly died on November 28, 2016.
"I learned from Fletcher how to apprehend
the daemonic element in poetic imagination."
— Harold Bloom in today's Los Angeles florilegium
For more on Bloom and the daemonic, see a Log24 post,
"Interpenetration," from the date of Fletcher's death.
Some backstory: Dharwadker in this journal.
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Colorful Tale
(A sequel to yesterday's ART WARS and this
morning's De Colores )
“Perhaps the philosophically most relevant feature
of modern science is the emergence of abstract
symbolic structures as the hard core of objectivity
behind– as Eddington puts it– the colorful tale
of the subjective storyteller mind.” — Hermann Weyl
(Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science ,
Princeton, 1949, p. 237)
See also Deathly Hallows.
De Colores
See orange, black, green at The Daily Princetonian
and in this journal.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Colorful Tale
"Perhaps the philosophically most relevant feature
of modern science is the emergence of abstract
symbolic structures as the hard core of objectivity
behind— as Eddington puts it— the colorful tale
of the subjective storyteller mind."
— Hermann Weyl in Philosophy of Mathematics
and Natural Science , Princeton, 1949, p. 237
Tom Wolfe on art theorists in The Painted Word (1975) :
"It is important to repeat that Greenberg and Rosenberg
did not create their theories in a vacuum or simply turn up
with them one day like tablets brought down from atop
Green Mountain or Red Mountain (as B. H. Friedman once
called the two men). As tout le monde understood, they
were not only theories but … hot news,
straight from the studios, from the scene."
The Weyl quote is a continuing theme in this journal.
The Wolfe quote appeared here on Nov. 18, 2014,
the reported date of death of Yale graduate student
Natasha Chichilnisky-Heal.
Directions to her burial (see yesterday evening) include
a mention of "Paul Robson Street" (actually Paul
Robeson Place) near "the historic Princeton Cemetery."
This, together with the remarks by Tom Wolfe posted
here on the reported day of her death, suggests a search
for "red green black" —
The late Chichilnisky-Heal was a student of political economy.
The search colors may be interpreted, if one likes, as referring
to politics (red), economics (green), and Robeson (black).
See also Robeson in this journal.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
The Uploading
(Continued from March 9.)
A detail from "Feist Sings 1, 2, 3, 4"—
"Uploaded by Jul 18, 2008"
on
Those who prefer, as Weyl put it,
"the hard core of objectivity"
to, as Eddington put it,
"the colorful tale of the subjective storyteller mind"
may consult this journal on the same day… July 18, 2008.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Saturday July 19, 2008
Bertram Kostant, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at MIT, on an object discussed in this week's New Yorker:
Hermann Weyl on the hard core of objectivity:
Steven H. Cullinane on the symmetries of a 4×4 array of points:
A Structure-Endowed Entity
"A guiding principle in modern mathematics is this lesson: Whenever you have to do with a structure-endowed entity S, try to determine its group of automorphisms, the group of those element-wise transformations which leave all structural relations undisturbed. You can expect to gain a deep insight into the constitution of S in this way." — Hermann Weyl in Symmetry Let us apply Weyl's lesson to the following "structure-endowed entity."
What is the order of the resulting group of automorphisms? |
The above group of
automorphisms plays
a role in what Weyl,
following Eddington,
called a "colorful tale"–
This puzzle shows
that the 4×4 array can
also be viewed in
thousands of ways.
"You can make 322,560
pairs of patterns. Each
pair pictures a different
symmetry of the underlying
16-point space."
— Steven H. Cullinane,
July 17, 2008
For other parts of the tale,
see Ashay Dharwadker,
the Four-Color Theorem,
and Usenet Postings.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Friday July 18, 2008
Hard Core
David Corfield quotes Weyl in a weblog entry, "Hierarchy and Emergence," at the n-Category Cafe this morning:
"Perhaps the philosophically most relevant feature of modern science is the emergence of abstract symbolic structures as the hard core of objectivity behind– as Eddington puts it– the colorful tale of the subjective storyteller mind." (Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science [Princeton, 1949], p. 237)
For the same quotation in a combinatorial context, see the foreword by A. W. Tucker, "Combinatorial Problems," to a special issue of the IBM Journal of Research and Development, November 1960 (1-page pdf).
See also yesterday's Log24 entry.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Thursday July 17, 2008
CHANGE FEW CAN BELIEVE IN |
Continued from June 18.
Jungian Symbols
of the Self —
Compare and contrast:
Jung's four-diamond figure from
Aion — a symbol of the self —
Jung's Map of the Soul,
by Murray Stein: