Log24

Sunday, October 15, 2017

The Strength at the Centre

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

The title, a phrase from a poem by Wallace Stevens,
was suggested by the previous post, "Center."

See posts tagged May 19 Gestalt in particular, 
May 19, 2007 — "Point of View."

Saturday, October 14, 2017

Center

Rosalind Krauss in 1978

"To get inside the systems of this work,
whether LeWitt's or Judd's or Morris's,
is precisely to enter
a world without a center,
a world of substitutions and transpositions
nowhere legitimated by the revelations
of a transcendental subject. This is the strength
of this work, its seriousness, and its claim to modernity." 

Wikipedia

"The center of
the quaternion group,
Q8 = {1, −1, i, −i, j, −j, k, −k} ,
is {1, −1}."

Illustration from a post of Feb. 3,  2011

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110203-Scholia.jpg.

In Principio:

Red October  continues …

See also Molloy in this  journal.

Related art  theory —

Geometry of the 4×4 Square 

Friday, October 13, 2017

Sicut Erat

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:26 pm

Smith College in 2011 on some music by Dan Brown's brother —

"Using the conventions of a traditional five-movement
Roman Catholic Mass to revere Darwin’s body of work,
Gregory Brown, Smith’s assistant director of choral
activities and a composer of choral music, is
collaborating with Craig Phillips, an early music specialist
and member of the classical a cappella male quartet
New York Polyphony, to create the piece Missa Charles Darwin . 
Brown is building the work in three large-scale sections and
scoring it for a male vocal quartet, which will be performed by
New York Polyphony."

https://www.smith.edu/insight/stories/darwin.php

Dan Brown has said his brother's Missa  helped suggest his new novel Origin .

Material from Smith College related to a performance of
Missa Charles Darwin  at the college on Feb. 4, 2011 —

Dan Brown, in the following passage, claims that an eight-ray star with arrowheads
at the rays' ends is "the mathematical symbol for entropy."  Brown may have first
encountered this symbol at a questionable "Sacred Science" website.  Wikipedia
discusses some even less  respectable uses of the symbol.

My own version of the above symbol (from the pure mathematics of group actions
on a 3×3 square) appeared here the day before  the Friday, Feb. 4, 2011,
Smith College Darwin Mass . . .

See posts now tagged The Next Thing.

Speak, Memra

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 11:59 am

The above was suggested by a Log24 review of October 13, 2002,
which in turn suggested a Log24 search for Carousel that yielded
(from Bloomsday Lottery) —

See as well Asimov's "prime radiant," and an illustration
of the number 13 as a radiant prime

"The Prime Radiant can be adjusted to your mind,
and all corrections and additions can be made
through mental rapport. There will be nothing to
indicate that the correction or addition is yours.
In all the history of the Plan there has been no
personalization. It is rather a creation of all of us 
together. Do you understand?"  

"Yes, Speaker!"

— Isaac Asimov, 
    Second Foundation , Ch. 8: Seldon's Plan

"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime

See also Transformers in this journal.

Powered by WordPress