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Sunday, December 29, 2024

For Harlan Kane: Husserl vs. Verhexung

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:17 pm

"Die Philosophie ist ein Kampf gegen die Verhexung
unsres Verstandes durch die Mittel unserer Sprache."

— Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations  (1953),  
Section 109
 

"The newly redesigned Museum of Modern art
bracketed a rectangular open space."

— Photo caption in a Dec. 23 New York Times  obituary
 

"The literature is replete with explanations of the benefits of
bracketing
, not only in phenomenological studies but in other
types of qualitative research."

— Thomas, S. P., & Sohn, B. K. (2023).
From Uncomfortable Squirm to Self-Discovery:
A Phenomenological Analysis of the Bracketing Experience.
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22.
https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231191635 

 

An application of the Husserl approach to Verhexung

Bracketing the phrase "Galois space" in the literature yields different
mathematical concepts, some derived from "Galois geometry," some
from "topological space."

The former relates to structures with a finite number of points, the latter
to structures with an infinite number of points. Sometimes the two sorts
of structure are related to one another.  For example . . .

Square and Rectangle, 16 and 24

Saturday, December 28, 2024

For Holy Innocents Day:  Open-Ended Architecture

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:00 pm

— Photo by Marcela Nowak

Watson’s Seventh (of May 2022)

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:08 pm

Compare and contrast —

Saturday, May 7, 2022

“Use Your Noodle” Image and Update

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:33 am

Click the above image to enlarge.

Update to yesterday's "Use Your Noodle" post . . .

Flusser's seven "pillars" appear to be the main sections of the Tractatus — numbered 1 through 7, with many intermediate numbered passages.

For a more geometric meditation on "the shape of things,"
see other posts tagged "Shape Constant" in this  journal.

Annals of Artspeak:
Exquisite Microcosms

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:08 pm

See also Exquisite and Microcosm in this  journal.

And for "Complete Unknown" fans . . .

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