Saturday, April 12, 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
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
