From the Sunday night post Euclid Alone,
the new site Beauty Bare —
(The first-post date of April 12 is apparently based on UTC time.)
From today’s previous post, A Model Echo —
Monday, April 12, 2021
Two Versions of Bare Beauty
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A Model Echo
The previous Log24 post, on mathematics, was titled
“Models: A Return to Utrecht.”
After writing that post I decided to check out another sort of
Utrecht model, and found a surprising echo:
“A Return to Utrecht: The Sylvia Kristel Archives.”
Recommended related reading: Kristel’s obituary in The Telegraph .
Recommended related music:
https://www.google.com/search?q=
%22show+us+the+way+to+the+next+little+girl%22+bowie .
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Models: A Return to Utrecht
References to a 1960 conference paper by Freudenthal in this journal
suggest another paper from the same conference …
See as well other posts now tagged . . .
For my own work on models, see
Finite Geometry of the Square and Cube.
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Sunday, April 11, 2021
Euclid Alone . . .
A view of my HC page (the logged-in version) —
The new site Beauty Bare —
The first-post date of April 12 is apparently based on UTC time.
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Dot Patterns
Apparently because of its usual visual representation,
the Fano plane has now been put in the Wikipedia category
“Dot patterns.”
Some dot patterns many will prefer: Braille Nude.
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Space Itself
See the title in this journal. This review was suggested by
a phrase of Catherine Flynn:
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Saturday, April 10, 2021
Possibility
The previous post, on a Joyce symposium in
Utrecht on June 15-20, 2014, suggests a review
of this journal in June 2014. From June 21
of that year —
"Without the possibility that
an origin can be lost, forgotten,
or alienated into what springs
forth from it, an origin could
not be an origin. The possibility
of inscription is thus a necessary
possibility, one that must always
be possible."
— Page 157 of The Tain of the Mirror:
Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection ,
by Rodolphe Gasché, Harvard U. Press, 1986
Related art suggested by the above modal logic —
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Gap Dance in Utrecht
(See also Gap Dance elsewhere in this journal.)
"… the Wake seemed to be everywhere
at the Utrecht Joyce Symposium."
"What I saw at the Symposium at Utrecht
were scholars working to close the gap
between the multifaceted complexity
of the text and the vastly greater complexity
of the readers experiencing it."
— "Along the Krommerun: The Twenty-Fourth International
James Joyce Symposium, Utrecht, The Netherlands,
15-20 June 2014," by Andrew Ferguson, University of Virginia.
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"Central to these structural and aesthetic innovations, however, is a mundane element: the wooden dowel. The dowel is a small peg of variable length; its ends lack distinct heads, allowing it work in any direction. The dowels remain hidden in the Red Blue Chair as they connect rail to rail and rail to plank, invisible yet essential to the chair's appearance and its defiance of convention and gravity. Critics have noted the chair's flouting of the rules of modern architectural semantics: Yves-Alain Bois writes of the elements that function simultaneously in two ways, as both supporting prop and supported cantilever, as subverting "the functionalist ethic of modernist architecture — the dictum that would have one meaning per sign". It is the dowel that allows the elements of the chair to attain so subtly this semantic complexity. The chair's innovations are not technological, but rather concern the arrangement and deployment of existing materials and elements. The dowel is a modest but highly adaptable means of joining: while the dovetail joint requires two equally sized components, the mortise and tenon involves a male and a female element, and the housed joint requires an extended zone of contact, the dowel neutrally connects all kinds of elements to one another, its single point allowing maximum freedom in the orientation of the connected elements." — Page 25 of "From Dowel to Tesseract," |
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
A Wonderful Model
” Ironically, the bestselling ‘historian’ of time
seems stuck in the past, known throughout his life
to put up posters of Marilyn Monroe in his office,
visit ‘gentlemen’s clubs’ and claim that women were
‘a mystery.’ ” — Philip Ball, March 1, 2021
See related material on a Mystery Woman of Cuernavaca.
See as well the March of Hawking’s death in posts tagged Spring Awakening —
“… a wonderful model of a small church or chapel.”
— Andrew Cusack, March 20, 2018
For another wonderful model in Bavaria, see Straight Line Fever.
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Friday, April 2, 2021
Another Abstract Signature
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Saturday, December 21, 2019
Last of the God Professors
From some autobiographical remarks by Simon During,
who was featured in the previous post —
For more on the phrase “god professor,” see
“The Ownership of Knowledge in Higher Education
in Australia 1939-1996,” Hannah Forsyth, Ph.D. thesis,
University of Sydney, 2012
Simon During at Utrecht earlier this year —
For the Church of Synchronology, other April 11, 2019, remarks —
See in particular the phrase “Eritis sicut dei ” in the Log24 remarks.
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Friday, July 11, 2014
Back to 1955
Nick Fury takes the Tesseract…
… which travels back to 1955
(see The Call Girls, Nov. 3, 2013)…
Above: A 1955 cover design by Robert Flynn.
Images from December 1955…
… and a fictional image imagined in an earlier year:
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