On the threshold of knowledge: Pythagoreans, incommensurability and the experience of modernity.
The Greek experience, as we reconstitute it, accords special value to the “limit” and reemphasizes the long-recognize scandalousness of the irrational: the indecency of that which, in measurement, is immeasurable. (He who first discovered the incommensurability of the diagonal of the square perished; he drowned in a shipwreck, for he had met with a strange […]
“Today’s Program: Jackson Pollock, “Lavender Mist”, 1950” by Ilene Segalove, 1973
☛ The Metropolitan Museum of Art: “Today’s Program: Jackson Pollock, “Lavender Mist”, 1950” by Ilene Segalove, collage of offset lithographs, 35.6 x 43.2 cm (14 x 17 in.), 1973. Accession Number: 2011.114. Hi-res photo taken at The MET, June 2012 (CC-BY-NC-ND). Curator and writer Jessica Brier shared the following comment about this specific collage: Unexpectedly, […]
Incommunicability: Kafka’s “On Parables”
Many complain that the words of the wise are always merely parables and of no use in daily life, which is the only life we have. When the sage says: “Go over,” he does not mean that we should cross over to some actual place, which we could do anyhow if the labor were worth […]
