“Das mathematische Denken vervielfältigt sich selbst”. (Novalis).

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“… müsste man erstmal definieren.

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Source: Bibliothek Schlag, Zürich
Anton Räderscheidt, Maler mit Modell, 100 x 80cm, 1928
Collection of Musée d’Art moderne de la Vile de Paris

Primitive rituals, … [argues] Mumford, were “basic to the whole development of human culture”; they stabilized Paleolithic man through repetitive acts that produced predictable effects. Early man was first a collector and later a hunter; from animals he learned how to gather food before discovering how to kill for it. Kings created the prototype machines from people: they organized manpower to build monuments and wage war. Source: Time Magazine, Friday, Jun. 09, 1967

Machinen, Geräte, Werkzeuge breiten Ordnungen aus. Ritual und Tanz waren die ersten Maschinen der Geschichte. Sie stabilisierten das Innen und ermöglichten so erst eine stabile Wahrnehmung (Mumford).
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Technology throws light upon mental conceptions.
“intervals of gradualness.”
Quantity into quality.
Or sweetness: where there is more light than logic.
A full number of things in a very few words.
(Louis Zukofsy: A acht)

Source: Rudolf zur Lippe: Geometrisierung des Menschen. Oldenburg: Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem der Universität Oldenburg, 1983, p. 33

Paracelsus`Book of Bad and Good Fortune:
The sun shines upon all of us equally
With its luck. The summer comes
To all of us equally
With its luck. Our love is unequal
(Louis Zukofsky: A zwölg)

Stinkhorns are amazing mushrooms, notorious for popping up suddenly and unexpected in urban settings. (M.Kuo)