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Monday, August 8, 2011
Diamond Theory vs. Story Theory (continued)
Richard J. Trudeau, a mathematics professor and Unitarian minister, published in 1987 a book, The Non-Euclidean Revolution , that opposes what he calls the Story Theory of truth [i.e., Quine, nominalism, postmodernism] to what he calls the traditional Diamond Theory of truth [i.e., Plato, realism, the Roman Catholic Church]. This opposition goes back to the medieval "problem of universals" debated by scholastic philosophers.
(Trudeau may never have heard of, and at any rate did not mention, an earlier 1976 monograph on geometry, "Diamond Theory," whose subject and title are relevant.)
From yesterday's Sunday morning New York Times—
"Stories were the primary way our ancestors transmitted knowledge and values. Today we seek movies, novels and 'news stories' that put the events of the day in a form that our brains evolved to find compelling and memorable. Children crave bedtime stories…."
— Drew Westen, professor at Emory University
From May 22, 2009—
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The above ad is by
Diamond from last night’s
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Mood Music
"You ain't been blue; no, no, no.
You ain't been blue,
Till you've had that mood_indigo."
–Indigo (web color) (#4B0082)
"This pigment (web color #4B0082) represents
the way the color_indigo was always reproduced
in pigments, paints, or colored pencils in the 1950s."
For related mythology, see indigo.
See also a search for "Coltrane + telepathic."
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
A Gathering for Gardner
"You ain't been blue; no, no, no.
You ain't been blue,
Till you've had that mood indigo."
— Song lyrics, authorship disputed
Indigo (web color) (#4B0082)
"Pigment indigo (web color indigo) represents
the way the color indigo was always reproduced
in pigments, paints, or colored pencils in the 1950s."
Related mythology:
Indigo Children and the classic
1964 film Children of the Damned
Related non-mythology:
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Friday, September 4, 2009
Friday September 4, 2009
Closing the Circle
Continued from Monday
“This is a chapel
of mischance;
ill luck betide it, ’tis
the cursedest kirk
that ever I came in!”
Philip Kennicott on
Kirk Varnedoe in
The Washington Post:
“Varnedoe’s lectures were
ultimately about faith,
about his faith in
the power of abstraction,
and abstraction as a kind of
anti-religious faith in itself….”
Kennicott’s remarks were
on Sunday, May 18, 2003.
They were subtitled
“Closing the Circle
on Abstract Art.”
Also on Sunday, May 18, 2003:
“Will the circle be unbroken?
As if some southern congregation
is praying we will come to understand.”
Princeton University Press:
See also
Parmiggiani’s
Giordano Bruno —
Dürer’s Melencolia I —
and Log24 entries
of May 19-22, 2009,
ending with
“Steiner System” —
George Steiner on chess
(see yesterday morning):
“There are siren moments when quite normal creatures otherwise engaged, men such as Lenin and myself, feel like giving up everything– marriage, mortgages, careers, the Russian Revolution– in order to spend their days and nights moving little carved objects up and down a quadrate board.”
“Allegoric associations of death with chess are perennial….”
Yes, they are.
April is Math Awareness Month.
This year’s theme is “mathematics and art.”
Cf. both of yesterday’s entries.
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Friday, May 22, 2009
Friday May 22, 2009
Steiner System
New York Times
banner this morning:
Related material from
July 11, 2008:
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The HSBC Logo Designer — Henry Steiner
Born in Austria and raised in New York, Steiner was educated at Yale under Paul Rand and attended the Sorbonne as a Fulbright Fellow. He is a past President of Alliance Graphique Internationale. Other professional affiliations include the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Chartered Society of Designers, Design Austria, and the New York Art Directors' Club. His Cross-Cultural Design: Communicating in the Global Marketplace was published by Thames and Hudson (1995). |
He is an internationally recognized corporate identity consultant. Based in Hong Kong, his work for clients such as HongkongBank, IBM and Unilever is a major influence in Pacific Rim design.
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Charles Taylor,
"Epiphanies of Modernism," Chapter 24 of Sources of the Self (Cambridge U. Press, 1989, p. 477):
"… the object sets up
See also Talking of Michelangelo.
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Related material suggested by
an ad last night on
ABC's Ugly Betty season finale:
Diamond from last night's
Log24 entry, with
four colored pencils from
Diane Robertson Design:
See also
A Four-Color Theorem.
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