I still want to go to that bar in Zizek called Buenos Aires. On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Joseph Gray <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > -*-*--**---***-----*****--------******** > -*-*--**---***-----***** > -*-*--**---*** > -*-*--** > -*-* > -* > -- www.metastableequilibrium.blogspot.com
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