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Romain Crelier - La Mise en Abîme.

At Bellelay Abbey.

> Photo: paikan07 (2013).

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Julia Steiner - Here and Where (2016).

> Photo: Serge Hasenböhler.

@ Bellelay Abbey.

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El Anatsui - Fresh and Fading Memories.

@ the Venice Biennale, on the exterior of the Palazzo Fortuny, 2007.

> Photo: Jean-Pierre Gabriel.

A monumental tapestry made from thousands of discarded aluminum bottle caps and other metal objects, stitched together with copper wire.

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The Polish pavilion @ Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2025.

The main theme is “Lares and Penates: On Building a Sense of Security in Architecture” [x]

> Photo: Anna Kolomiyets.

The eﬀect of arbitrary label-removals on addition of natural numbers.

Write N† for the quotient set of N obtained by identifying the elements 2 ∈ N and 3 ∈ N, i.e., by “removing the distinct labels” from the two distinct elements of N constituted by “2” and “3”. Thus, if one assumes that addition of natural numbers in N is suﬃciently “robust” in the sense that it is unaﬀected by the label-removal that gives rise to N†, then one immediately obtains the contradiction 1 + 3 = 3. In fact, of course, this “contradiction” does not imply the existence of any intrinsic defect in the theory of addition of natural numbers; rather, it simply implies that there is no logical relationship between addition in N and the operation induced on N† by addition in N, i.e., no logical relationship that allows one to deduce statements concerning addition in N from corresponding statements concerning the induced operation on N†.

- Brief Report on the Current Situation. Surrounding Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory (IUT), Shinichi Mochizuki (2023)

Merely manipulating symbols is not enough too guarantee knowledge of what they mean. I shall abbreviate this as: Syntax by itself is neither constitutive of nor sufficient for semantics.

- Is the Brain's Mind a Computer Program?, John Searle (1990)

Mathematical sets have for their elements not unities but other sets, and so on indefinitely. When a set is not empty, it is composed of multiple sets.

- History and Event in Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux (2011)

The strict necessity with which correlationism demonstrated that we can never think outside of subjectivity, is transmuted into the thought of an ontological necessity: we always experience subjectivity as a necessary, and hence eternal, principle from which no one can escape. We shall thus define as subjectalism every metaphysics that absolutizes the correlation of being and thought, whatever sense it attaches to the subjective and objective poles of such a relation. Hegelian idealism is obviously the paradigm of such a metaphysics of the Subject thought as the Absolute – but vitalism obeys the same logic, even if it does not always do so in full consciousness of its fundamental argument.

- Iteration, Reiteration, Repetition: A Speculative Analysis of the Meaningless Sign, Quentin Meillassoux (2012)

Indeed in real life a mathematical proposition is never what we want. Rather, we make use of mathematical propositions only in inferences from propositions that do not belong to mathematics to others that likewise do not belong to mathematics.

- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Wittgenstein

Mental action is exactly the special case of cybernetic self-regulation for which there is no non-neural body or “world in between”, where what counts is the epistemic content of cognitive affordances, and the selective exploitation of pre-existing internal models created in an ongoing process of spontaneous activation. For this reason, “instrumental” and “epistemic” inference almost converge for EAM-optimization: the causes revealed in this process are only causes of hierarchically deep perturbations; the causal structure to be found comprises only pre-existing internal models.

- The Problem of Mental Action- Predictive Control without Sensory Sheets, Thomas Metzinger (2017)

The specific "to infinity" of the real (for a genuine realogy) is the "in instanti" of the creature in relation to the God, who, as the "infinitum actu," is the "intra rem quamlibet," the "interior of everything real." So it is not simply that what is ultimate in the "contradictoriness" of the real turns out to be this "tension of opposites unto infinity" (in contrast to an ideal "system" sought by the various phenomenologies); rather, every particular "real moment" bears in itself the opposition between the "infinitum potentia" and the "infinitum actu" as its "most interior interior"- and thus not only as the final meaning of dynamically oscillating contrarieties, but as the dynamic origin of every real "moment."

- Phenomenology, Realogy, Relationology, Erich Przywara, Analogia entis: metaphysics: original structure and universal rhythm

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“A. “My name is —” B. “What does it matter?” A. “My country is —” B. “And what does that matter?” A. “I am of noble race.” B. “And if you were of the very dregs?” A. “I quitted life with a good reputation.” B. “And had it been a bad one?” A. “And now I lie here.” B. “Who are you and to whom are you telling this?””

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Paulus Silentiarius, Anth. Gr. 7.307

[οὔνομά μοι. τί δὲ τοῦτο; πατρὶς δέ μοι. ἐς τί δὲ τοῦτο; κλεινοῦ δ᾽ εἰμὶ γένους. εἰ γὰρ ἀφαυροτάτου; ζήσας δ᾽ ἐνδόξως ἔλιπον βίον. εἰ γὰρ ἀδόξως; κεῖμαι δ᾽ ἐνθάδε νῦν. τίς τίνι ταῦτα λέγεις;]