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Space

“Was ist Raum, wie können wir ihn erfassen und gestalten?” Walter Gropius, The Theory and Organization of the Bauhaus  (1923) This post was suggested by the Bauhaus song "Bela Lugosi's…

Sign

"Now we're partners in crime" — Ace of Base, "The Golden Ratio" Or not. "The Hunger" (1983) was directed by Tony Scott. See also Tony Scott in this journal.

Dickens for Child Buyers

"              … yet the dread Of dying, and being dead, Flashes afresh to hold and horrify." — Philip Larkin, "Aubade" From tonight's…

Core

  Grindhouse Madonna ,   Children at your feet….

Omega

Omega is a Greek letter, Ω , used in mathematics to denote a set on which a group acts.  For instance, the affine group AGL(3,2) is a group of 1,344…

In Memoriam

"For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross." — Gravity's Rainbow

Epistemic States

From Socrates to Waterloo — (Click images to enlarge.) See also today's earlier Epistemic Tetrads.

Grindhouse Madonna

See also "Welcome to Me" in Log24 and recent posts tagged Grindhouse. Update of 9 PM: The book that "The Martian" is based on is by Andy Weir. A somewhat Hindu…

Like a Prayer

"Let the choir sing." — Madonna

Welcome to Noplace

See an informative essay at noplace.no on the work of Oslo artist Josefine Lyche in connection with her current (June 12-21) exhibition, "Contact." A paragraph from that essay — See also Lyche in this…