Saturday, April 12, 2025
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Psychology as Asemics ~ On the Ambiguity of Literary Device / EZE, 2025
Strings
Top Brass
Wood for Irony
Snare
Slide Trombone
Disco Ball
Monday, April 7, 2025
Toward Finite Math / EZE.2025
J.P. Mayberry
John Penn Mayberry (Wikipedia)
Natural Number Arithmetic in the Theory of Finite Sets by J. P. Mayberry and Richard Pettigrew
The Foundation of Mathematics in the Theory of Sets (Internet Archive)
Foundations of Mathematics (The n-Category Cafe)
Set Theory
Set Theory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
An Introduction to Set Theory by William A. R. Weiss
Sets, Relations, Functions by Ivo Düntsch and Günther Gedigas
A Book of Set Theory by Charles C. Pinter
Notes on Set Theory ... by Andrew Marks
Mathematical Foundations a la Set Theory
Set Theory and Foundations of Mathematics by Sylvain Poirier
Anti-Cantor Theory (Wikipedia)
The Uses and Abuses of the History of Topos Theory by Colin McLarty
Set Theory and its Place in the Foundations of Mathematics by Mirna Dzamonja
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Friday, March 28, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
An Asemics of Garbage Speech / EZE, 2025
On the Importance of Being Understood
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On Garbage Speech
Beyond its aspect of insult as trash talk, which seems, in part, to promulgate the values of one community over the values of another, garbage speech is the excess of the communal. It is performance.
What is the meaning of such performance? Its meaning is in the emphasis of power so embodied. After all, the power to escape interpretation is the power to escape community.
But the power to escape community is also the power to escape an immediate need to be understood as anything other than power(ful) itself.
Not that there is not an excess of non-sense in such performance, but the outcome of acommunal speech is not so much non-sense as much as it is the excess of speech itself. This aspect of excess is waste. This excess is the very act of refuse.
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Monday, March 24, 2025
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Skepticism as Asemics / EZE, 2025
Skepticism acknowledges the incomplete and the disconnected, but skepticism does not necessarily offer another path, i.e., another means, i.e., another solution, to the path it has thrown into question. Indeed, at one extreme, skepticism might just force us to let go of an issue entirely, and at the another extreme, skepticism might (at least, seemingly) throw the entire world into question. Yet when it draws our attention to the tenuousness of our connections, skepticism may help us acknowledge the cul de sac. But by calling a matter into question, skepticism forces us to suspend belief and in so doing, also give us a means to investigate the matter at hand. Such is asemics.
Political Skepticism
Friday, March 21, 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Escher Asemics / EZE, 2025
Escher
Asemics as Impossibility
Escher Sentence
Waterfall
Belvedere
Ascending and Descending
Friday, March 14, 2025
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Sunday, March 2, 2025
An Asemics of Science / EZE, 2025
Science for the Public
Scientific Truth as ...
The Problem of Teleology
History of Science
Happy Accidents
Asemics
Limitations
Toward Community
Funding for Science, Historically
Asia
Europe
Great Britain
United States
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Friday, February 28, 2025
Asemics as the Value of Sacrifice and of Sentiment / EZE, 2025
Asemics as the Value of Sacrifice and of Sentiment
1) The first principle of a rationalist theory of value currently in play follows Ayn Rand and Objectivist philosophy, and it is fundamental to creating asemics: Deny sacrifice, especially, self-sacrifice, as meaningful. Note that meaning here plays to a context of rationality. The self-sacrifice, this irrational act, becomes the asemic.
2) Enact a business model to interpret human behavior as rational or not. For example, enact a business model to manage the legal system. Everything thereby tends to become negotiable whether it is or not. The not becomes the asemic. Rule of law passes to the bid. Justice passes to the aggressor.
3) Develop a categorical imperative that divides the world into winners and losers. Losers are those people who have sacrificed themselves for a claim of a good of some sort. Servants are losers who work for the common good. Winners are those people who serve their own self-interest, i.e., their own ends. The losers are the asemic, and the winners have meaning, at least of the photo opportunity sort.
4) In contradistinction to Ayn Rand, who was atheist, re-make religion, especially Christianity, as a means to a different end rather than oppose religion as an empty theology. For example, when the end desired of religion is something other than self-sacrifice, re-make a religion such as Christianity as a Prosperity Gospel. Such a re-make, of course, serves to undo the sacrificial aspect of the religion.
5) Consider loss and the like as something akin to an insurance claim where insurance has no value for sentiment, which thereby becomes asemic, and the pay-out for the claim is replacement value, asemic value excluded. But what potential does this asemic value then acquire? politically, socially, ... otherwise?
6) Preserve the asemic in emojis, but look to the icon of the negotiation table as that which remains of shared meaning among communities otherwise a-communal.
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
An Asemics of Steven Pinker / EZE, 2025
Language as an Experience of Sense and of Affect
- Imagine Language as an Experience of Language
- Imagine Language on the Way to Meaning ~ Imagine Language on the Way to a Question of Language
- As [__________] Called into Question, imagine Asemics as a Question of Affect (or Lack Thereof) in Relation to a Sense of [*]
Pinker
Other than Pinker
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Monday, February 24, 2025
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Asemic Hermeneutics / EZE, 2025
Toward Defining Hermeneutics
Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning
Ontology
Circle
Relations
Asemics
Assemblage
A re-situation of meaning
Often, devoid of context
Ahistorical disjunction, for instance
Value here is not value there
Value is not necessarily emergent
Circle of Meaning
Disconnect
Conjecture
De-reference
Meaning almost anything
Meaning near to nothing
Method
Inconsistent
Unstable
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Sunday, February 16, 2025
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Fake Conflict Asemics? / EZE, 2025
A Fake Conflict for Galileo?
Science and Religion for the Catholic Church
Beyond Catholicism?
The Geocentric Milton in Paradise Lost
Of Two Cultures?
American Protestantism
A Sociology for a Fake Conflict?
