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  The Ascension of Dieter Grau

Launched from Cuber

Continued from Nobel Note (Jan. 29, 2014). From Tradition in Action , "The Missal Crisis of '62," remarks on the revision of the Catholic missal in that year— "Neither can…

For Rilke's Panther

The title refers to yesterday evening's remarks titled "Free the Philosophical Beast" in The Stone , a NY Times  weblog.  The January 2015 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical…

Say Hello to My Little Friend

For some backstory, see Feast of the Holy Innocents, 2012.

Antidotes…

… to last night's TV premiere of the Syfy miniseries "Ascension," also known as "Mad Men in Space" — See also Sunday's observances here and at St. Rose of Lima…

Mythic Metaphysics

Today's 8:01 PM post quoted Husserl on the perception of the cube. Another approach to perception of the cube, from Narrative  Metaphysics on St. Lucia's Day —    …

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…