For Candlebrow University:

For logicians —

For poets —

For geometers —

Return  of the well-dressed man with a beard —

"…on Saturday…."

* See other chess art and a related poem.

"Play It as It Lays."

A review by Robert Ghrist of a paper on aperiodic
Wang tilings suggests a search in this journal for Wang tiles.

A resulting image seems appropriate for today's posts,
which include a reference to a renowned Prada-wearer.

"She's like the wind." — Song lyric. See as well Hexagram 57.

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 —

From my RSS feeds last night —

This  journal  on Wednesday, December 28, 2022 —

For those who prefer a "liturgical, ecstatic style" —

(A sequel to Social Geometry)

Number mysticism I prefer, from a post of Nov. 15 last year —

Other social notes from that May weekend —

Some related reading for Cormac McCarthy —

The Topos of Unconsciousness .

The title refers to a post discussing a date, 
that of last year's Feast of St. Thomas Becket. 

Related material —

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/movies/ruggero-deodato-dead.html .

The title is from . . .

https://booksonthewall.com/blog/samuel-beckett-quote-fail-better/ .

This post was suggested by yesterday's Feast of St. Thomas Becket —

A Beckett-related flashback linked to here yesterday —

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." 

"The novelist Cormac McCarthy has been a fixture around
the Santa Fe Institute since its embryonic stages in the
early 1980s. Cormac received a MacArthur Award in 1981
and met one of the members of the board of the MacArthur
Foundation, Murray Gell-Mann, who had won the Nobel Prize
in physics in 1969. Cormac and Murray discovered that they
shared a keen interest in just about everything under the sun
and became fast friends. When Murray helped to found the
Santa Fe Institute in 1984, he brought Cormac along, knowing
that everyone would benefit from this cross-disciplinary
collaboration." — https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/
cormac-and-sfi-abiding-friendship

Joy Williams, review of two recent Cormac McCarthy novels —

"McCarthy has pocketed his own liturgical, ecstatic style
as one would a coin, a ring, a key, in the service of a more
demanding and heartless inquiry through mathematics and
physics into the immateriality, the indeterminacy, of reality."

A Demanding and Heartless Coin, Ring, and Key:
 

COIN
 

RING

"We can define sums and products so that the G-images of D generate
an ideal (1024 patterns characterized by all horizontal or vertical "cuts"
being uninterrupted) of a ring of 4096 symmetric patterns. There is an 
infinite family of such 'diamond' rings, isomorphic to rings of matrices
over GF(4)."
 

KEY

"It must be remarked that these 8 heptads are the key to an elegant proof…."

— Philippe Cara, "RWPRI Geometries for the Alternating Group A₈," in 
Finite Geometries: Proceedings of the Fourth Isle of Thorns Conference 
(July 16-21, 2000), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, ed. Aart Blokhuis,
James W. P. Hirschfeld, Dieter Jungnickel, and Joseph A. Thas, pp. 61-97.
 

For those who prefer a "liturgical, ecstatic style" —

. . . as well as starring in Alpha Dog and in . . .

Or: The Sontag Puzzlement

Wikipedia on "Heavenly Creatures" —

"Juliet introduces Pauline to the idea of 'the Fourth World',
a Heaven without Christians where music and art are
celebrated. Juliet believes she will go there when she dies.
Certain actors and musicians have the status of saints in
this afterlife, such as singer Mario Lanza, with whom
both girls are obsessed."

   Related material — Sontag + Camp .

The above title is from Northrop Frye —

"Is it possible* that understanding the nature of clarity and order
can cast suspicion on the very ideas of clarity and order?"

— Douglas Sadao Aoki, University of Alberta, "The Thing Never
Speaks for Itself: Lacan and the Pedagogical Politics of Clarity,"
Harvard Educational Review , Vol. 70, No. 3, Fall 2000,
Copyright © by President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Related scholarly citation by Aoki —

The cited source: 

* For the diamond as a symbol of possibility , see modal diamond box .

In memory of an editor/author who reportedly died on September 12 . . .

Vide  an anthology he edited that was published on November 1, 2013,
and two Log24 posts from that date —

Colorful Tale  (11/1/2013)

See the title phrase in this journal.
See also posts from last August tagged Storyville.

Orange and Black at the White House  (11/1/2013)

See Josh Lederman's AP story on this year's
colorful White House Halloween decorations.
Orange and black are also the Princeton colors.
See as well The Crosswicks Curse.

* "Story space" is a phrase from Log24 on September 12.

(A sequel to Geometry for Jews.)

The Lévi-Strauss formula —

Related posts: Dueling.