http://withhiddennoise.net "One thing I've learned since I was born / that I must die since I was born" (Robert Filliou) Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:42:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "In his designs for bookbindings and jackets, Duchamp often made user of the continuity between front and back: in the chess book L'Opposition et les cases conjuguées sont reconciliées, 1932; in the designs for Hebdomeros and Ubu, executed by Mary Reynolds, 1935; in the cover made for Anthologie de l'humour ... http://withhiddennoise.net/2008/08/23/the-endless-book/ “With the signing of the agreement concluded between the Arensbergs and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on 28 December 1950, Duchamp's work, almost in its entirety, reached the care of a public collection without ever coming into contact with the art market. Duchamp's comment: ‘I never had such a feeling ... http://withhiddennoise.net/2008/08/23/to-bypass-the-market/ "Norbert A'Campo of the University of Basel once asked Grothendieck about something related to the Platonic solids. Grothendieck advised caution. The Platonic solids are so beautiful and so exceptional, he said, that one cannot assume such exceptional beauty will hold in more general situations." (Allyn Jackson's "Comme Appelé du Néant— As ... http://withhiddennoise.net/2008/08/20/beauty-is-nothing-but-the-beginning-of-terror/ (illustration from Allyn Jackson's "Comme Appelé du Néant— As If Summoned from the Void: The Life of Alexandre Grothendieck", Notices of the AMS, vol. 51, no. 10, November 2004.) http://withhiddennoise.net/2008/08/19/hexenkuche-1971/ Does it mean one thing with work, one with age, and so on? Or are the two opposing doors irrevocably closed? The song that started in the middle, did that close down too? Just because it says here I like tomatoes, is that a reason to call off victory? Yet it says, in such an understated way, ... http://withhiddennoise.net/2008/08/18/attabled-with-the-spinning-years/ "I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp ... http://withhiddennoise.net/2008/08/10/as-if-they-had-lost-them-themselves/ "It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree." (Buckminster ... http://withhiddennoise.net/2008/08/10/synergetics-52910/ "It follows from this that tauromachy can be taken for the typical example of an art in which the essential condition of beauty is a difference of phase, a deviation, a dissonance. No aesthetic pleasure would thus be possible without there being violation, transgression, excess and sin in relation to ... http://withhiddennoise.net/2008/08/09/a-difference-of-phase/ "Fleming did most of the talking. He ended up by asking us if we knew the definition of a gentleman. He waited and then said slowly: 'A gentleman is a person who uses the butter-knife when he's alone.' He looked at us triumphantly and we tried to force a laugh. My growing ... http://withhiddennoise.net/2008/08/06/not-even-improper/ "Well, I opened the door. The Doberman came at me raging and snarling and generally carrying on in the way he felt was expected of him. I threw him a fifty-five-pound reinforced concrete pork chop which knocked him silly. I spoke to Constanze. We used to walk down the street ... http://withhiddennoise.net/2008/08/01/thats-not-bad/