Keith, you know you're largely responsible for Culturevirus even being aware of these things.
I still want to go to that bar called Zizek in Buenos Aires On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Keith Tilford <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a Bourbaki quote, no? Oulipo was in fact modeled after their > endeavors. Lacan even attempted to produce something like a 'secret > society' of psychoanalysts in his day that never really materialized. > Bourbaki is largely responsible for Lacan's turn to structure and the > matheme in his work. Andre Weil, one of Bourbaki's co-founders, solved > Levi-Strauss' kinship problem by using the well defined concept of > mathematical structure that Bourbaki had invented, and he subsequently wrote > the appendix to Strauss' seminal re-worked thesis that would eventually play > an enormous role in the replacement of existentialism by structuralism > within philosophy. Category theory is also a Bourbaki offshoot to some > extent. Etc., etc. > > Mmmm...rigor. > > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Joseph Gray <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> "It provoked some hostility, too, mostly on the side of classical >> analysts; they approved of rigour but not of high abstraction. Around >> 1950, also, some parts of geometry were still not fully axiomatic — in >> less prominent developments, one way or another, these were brought >> into line with the new foundational standards, or quietly dropped. >> This undoubtedly led to a gulf with the way theoretical physics is >> practised.[5]" >> >> we haven't even taken this to where it goes in other arenas. playing >> softly here, for the benefit of the uninitiated. >> >> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:51 PM, glerm soares <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > >> > 2009/5/6 Jon Mitten <[email protected]> >> >> >> >> I was, of course, referring to this: >> > >> > >> > http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/impostor.png >> > http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/no_pun_intended.png >> > >> > http://xkcd.com/267/ >> > >> > >> > >> > -*-*--**---***-----*****--------******** >> > Harvard & Roy Arts Council >> > list options: >> > http://grauwald.com/mailman/listinfo/hrac_grauwald.com >> > -*-*--**---***-----*****--------******** >> > -*-*--**---***-----***** >> > -*-*--**---*** >> > -*-*--** >> > -*-* >> > -* >> > >> > >> >> -*-*--**---***-----*****--------******** >> Harvard & Roy Arts Council >> list options: >> http://grauwald.com/mailman/listinfo/hrac_grauwald.com >> -*-*--**---***-----*****--------******** >> -*-*--**---***-----***** >> -*-*--**---*** >> -*-*--** >> -*-* >> -* > > > > -- > www.metastableequilibrium.blogspot.com > > -*-*--**---***-----*****--------******** > Harvard & Roy Arts Council > list options: > http://grauwald.com/mailman/listinfo/hrac_grauwald.com > -*-*--**---***-----*****--------******** > -*-*--**---***-----***** > -*-*--**---*** > -*-*--** > -*-* > -* > > -*-*--**---***-----*****--------******** Harvard & Roy Arts Council list options: http://grauwald.com/mailman/listinfo/hrac_grauwald.com -*-*--**---***-----*****--------******** -*-*--**---***-----***** -*-*--**---*** -*-*--** -*-* -*
