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Activity stream of Ivak Iroovvud
21 Apr 2019
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Phonology - Homo Faux Nigh Is This 21 Apr, 19:23 2019
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String Encoding - Polycode 21 Apr, 19:06 2019
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Materiality - Language Kept Happening 21 Apr, 18:10 2019
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Formal Semantics - Room With Montague 21 Apr, 18:00 2019
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Cellular Automata - OHELLOHI ILIEHIDE Variations 21 Apr, 17:30 2019
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Pragmatics - A Gricean and Speech Act Analysis of a Conversation 5 changes by one user 21 Apr, 17:28 2019 ▼
17 Apr 2019
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What was at stake for me in the piece was whether the most abstract theorem I knew, the most apparently removed from the human that I knew but also allegedly very profound (in what it distills; the Yoneda Lemma is not so much a complex piece of math in itself, as a tool, or a result that shows that the abstract language of category theory "works"), could become literary in a significant & affective way. I feel, in this literally sophomoric attempt, that the answer is no. But maybe a better writer could pull it off.
It was formatted and submitted for this conference on Math And Art, which sounded amazing to me at the time. It was rejected, because it was bad (what disgusting metaphors, cloying phrasing!); however I was also suspected of plagiarism by the final reviewer, because I'd posted a draft on a blog, not under my name but under that character of Calvino's which has, for whatever reason, become default pseudonym. Out of spite, I have not attended the conference.
I found out about the math / art conference because a summer research thing I did in Iowa took us to the big math conference in Seattle (the Joint Math Meetings) and they had a poetry night, with flyers on the seat. Me and my partner had been rejected from the other undergrad research conference because we forgot to remove the LaTex dollar signs around math symbols. The poetry night was really sad: it opened with this painter / speaker who had done math before and had a blurb from Denise Levertov, but in fact just told this impossibly banal love story while comparing the John and Susan style lovers to something from set theory or whatever, in front of the worst kind of imitative, commoditized form, abstract expressionism (ie bright colors for the man and the woman), and then there was an open reading. It provoked professional and existential dread (the place designated for me is no place for me! And yet I knew people existed at this intersection: Barry Mazur, Vladimir Tasic, Nicanor Parra). There was like one real poet getting his mfa or something from JHU and then a lot of older professors and algebra teachers who'd written limericks and sonnets about differentiation or whatever. All very aspiring-to-and-failing-to-reach irritated James Maxwell. I read a mediocre shifting lippogram which one person told me on the escalator he thought was cool! This ameliorated some of the professional and existential dread.
All this to say, I'm glad I learned early just how much the academy cares about its punctuation (you might read this wiki as a sort of protest of that fact). Not that punctuation isn't great. Another time I went to a packed talk in Modern Culture and Media (a department I failed to sufficiently study) by a French theorist, whose name I do not remember, that was sort of about how punctuation is where affect enters the encoded linear text, and it was really cool, he brought out a Chekhov story about a bureaucrat who dreams of processing exclamation marks, and the page of Tristram Shandy that's just a giant period registering a death.
08 Mar 2019
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The potato's buddings were bitter. Even fried in good canola oil the rhizomes go down hard. An English tree tastes better at an English dinner party, in the English arbor.
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Right, if you responded with meaning, you would be useless. Oh, yes, indeed, my advisor recommended you (and was correct) and my critique facilitator recommended you (and was correct). The committee's only inductee on merit, from outside the family
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Right, if you responded with meaning, you would be useless. Oh, yes, indeed, my advisor recommended you (and was correct) and my critique facilitator recommended you (and was correct)
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Right, if you responded with meaning, you would be useless. Oh, right, my advisor recommended you (and was correct) and my critique facilitator recommended you (and was correct)
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What are you doing here, Smith? I didn't know you
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22 Feb 2019
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Biography - Booking Faces 22 Feb, 15:54 2019
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Category Theory - Three Translations of the Yoneda Lemma 22 Feb, 15:51 2019
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Titled, "Untitled" 22 Feb, 01:38 2019
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Don't take it personally, Qfwfq. I like your name. Tell me more stories. Let me tell your stories. I take you as a trope for anthropomorphizing, itself, a patron spirit, if that mollifies
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08 Feb 2019
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Titled, "Untitled" 08 Feb, 04:07 2019
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Category Theory - Three Translations of the Yoneda Lemma 08 Feb, 03:43 2019
27 Jan 2019
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Recursion - doiwritemyself? 27 Jan, 01:59 2019
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Category Theory - Three Translations of the Yoneda Lemma 27 Jan, 01:15 2019
22 Jan 2019
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I do find more resonance in how Lem and the Strugatsky brothers figure the alien and the AI as this oblique, terribly powerful, more terribly unknowable, thing, which our mere minds bash up against, than any of your iRobots (AIs following rules into technicalities different & perhaps subtler than our values) or Childhood's Ends (Arthur Clarke: the alien or the ai augmentation leading us into Transcendence, which is generally a transparent and not, i believe, very substantial, troping of Heaven: lots of good food and teleportation and high-dimensional chess and noble smiles). I think it even speaks better to the current highly-specialized and somewhat underwhelming (albeit, rapidly advancing) "artificial intelligence"s than our current . Even the whole "singularity" thing seems to lean often on that transcendence trope
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I do find more resonance in how Lem and the Strugatsky brothers figure the alien and the AI as this oblique, terribly powerful, more terribly unknowable, thing, which our mere minds bash up against, than any of your iRobots (AIs following rules into technicalities different & perhaps subtler than our values) or Childhood's Ends (Arthur Clarke: the alien or the ai augmentation leading us into Transcendence, which is generally a transparent and not, i believe, very substantial, troping of Heaven: lots of good food and teleportation and high-dimensional chess and noble smiles)
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A text I wrote 5 years ago (eg when 19), its subtexts, undesirable obsessions, are apparent and repulsive, a danger to the project of new writing.