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Rota on Husserl

The previous Log24 post quotes Husserl on the perception of the cube.  See also Mort de Grothendieck .

Annals of Perception

The Religion of Modernism

See posts tagged Modernism. "… and the clocks were striking thirteen."

May We?

John Burt Foster Jr. in Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism  (Princeton U. Press, 1993, p. 224) — At the time of The Waste Land , in a comment on…

Time, Space, Code

Some words and an image related to today's posts —

Time in Space

A sequel to Space Station 76 : "Starship 63," alias "Mad Men in Space," alias … "Ascension," a 3-night miniseries  on the Syfy Channel, Monday-Wednesday, Dec. 15-17. See also 1963 in…

Sermon

"In digital circuit theory, combinational logic  (sometimes also referred to as time-independent logic) is a type of digital logic which is implemented by Boolean circuits, where the output is a pure function of the present input…

Speak, Memory

Continued from Halloween 2012. Suggested by yesterday afternoon's Combinational Delight. "…the output is a pure function of the present input only. This is in contrast to sequential logic, in which the…

Grim Pen

The title refers to remarks linked to this afternoon : "An ingenious story line serves to convey the mysteriousness of destiny, the 'grim pen' of fate that encloses Hazel…

Combinational Delight

For St. Lucia's Day — A book that links the title of today's previous post, Narrative Metaphysics, with Nabokov's "combinational delight."