A New, Improved Version of Quantum Suffering !
Background for group actions on the eightfold cube —
See also other posts now tagged Quantum Suffering
as well as — related to the image above of the Great Wall —
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Eightfold Suffering:
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Quantum Suffering
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Hart the Knife*
For Spaceballs fans . . .
A web page from the father of Vi Hart, co-author of the
2014 quaternion-model article cited in the previous post:
* The title was suggested by the following video —
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Quaternion Group Models
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Professional Style
For an example of the admirable Schwartz style, see a recent letter.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Her Fair Lady
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The Schwartz Meme
Aficionados of the preposterous joke
(see yesterday's post Epstein on Art)
may consult a Google Image Search for
Schwartz Meme.
I prefer Schwartz même —
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The Seventh Function . . .
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Monday, May 28, 2018
Figaro (by Cartier)
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Epstein on Art
Joseph Epstein in the online Weekly Standard
on May 24, 2018, at 3:03 PM —
| Hilton Kramer, in a powerful essay called “Revenge of the Philistines,” praised Wolfe’s account of the sociology of the visual art of the time. On the comedy inherent in the subject, he noted, Wolfe “is illuminating and often hilarious.” Yet, when it came to the analysis of ideas, Kramer felt, “when it comes down to actual works of art and the thinking they both embody and inspire, Wolfe is hopelessly out of his depth . . . and, no doubt, beyond his true interests.” He faulted Wolfe for his inability to understand the historical context of the contemporary situation in art or how we have come to where we are in a way that carries us well beyond “the drawing-room comedy of The Painted Word .” Kramer concluded: “It is this fundamental incomprehension of the role of criticism in the life of art—this enmity to the function of theory in the creation of culture—that identifies The Painted Word , despite its knowingness and its fun, as a philistine utterance, an act of revenge against a quality of mind it cannot begin to encompass and must therefore treat as a preposterous joke.” |
For Kramer in greater depth, see an online biography.
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Skewers
A piece co-written by Ivanov, the author noted in the previous post, was cited
in my "Geometry of the 4×4 Square."
Also cited there — A paper by Pasini and Van Maldeghem that mentions
the Klein quadric.
Those sources suggested a search —
The link is to some geometry recently described by Tabachnikov
that seems rather elegant:
For another, more direct, connection to the geometry of the 4×4 square,
see Richard Evan Schwartz in this journal.
This same Schwartz appears also in the above Tabachnikov paper:
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Sunday, May 27, 2018
Heptagons, Quilts, Mathieu Groups
The phrase "ghostly heptagons" appears in A Piece of Justice , a 1995 novel
by Jill Paton Walsh that features some fictional politically correct mathematics.
(See the previous post.)
Related material from a Google search today —
The Ivanov book is new:
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“What Interests Me”
See also a Log24 search for A Piece of Justice .
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Saturday, May 26, 2018
Friday, May 25, 2018
Dirty Dating
A background check of a date from the previous post —
March 12, 2013 — yields . . .
- Conclave (For the Garden of Good and Evil)
- Smoke and Mirrors (Art by Josefine Lyche)
- Michael Porter: The Great and Powerful
A Wikipedia check of Porter yields . . .
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This date from Wikimedia — 3 March 2007 — leads to
a post in memory of Myer Feldman, presidential advisor
and theatrical producer.
"It's been dirty for dirty
Down the line . . ."
— Joni Mitchell,
"For the Roses" album (1972)
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Grid Design
Click the grid for the tag 5×5 in this journal.
A related book —
See also the previous post, Bucharest Semiotics.
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Thursday, May 24, 2018
Bucharest Semiotics
See Solomon Marcus in this journal.
Related art —
Related fictions: The Seventh Function of Language (2017)
and Lexicon (2013). I prefer Lexicon .
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Part and Hole
See also other posts now tagged Hole.
The above review of a Feb. 13, 2018, post was suggested by the
publication date below . . .
. . . and by today's Arts & Letters Daily item that linked to it —
Note, in Album , the activities of
Barthes in Bucharest during 1948.
From a May 20 Log24 post, "A Cryptic Message" —
"Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story." — Title of a book by D.T. Max
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Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Annals of Entertainment
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Spotlight
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Doppelgänger
The previous post suggests a media review.
Doppelgangers from the wonderful world of entertainment —
“We have a clip.” — Kalle (Kristen Wiig on SNL)
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Monday, May 21, 2018
Crux
Illustration for a Warren Times Observer story of May 12, 2018 —
Related literary background —
Iacta est.
"That's the crux of it, brother."
— William Monahan's "Mojave" script
See as well a related post on
Sunset and Selma, LA.
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Sunday, May 20, 2018
Maniac Strudel
(In memory of Will Alsop and Bill Gold)
Related material: Alice, a Log24 post of Nov. 12 (11/12), 2017.
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Sometimes Function Follows Form
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Not So Cryptic
From the date of the New York Times James Bond video
referenced in the previous post, "A Cryptic Message" —
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