An important principle in the philosophy of dialectics is the transformation of quantity into quality.
That is, a system which undergoes a significant enough “quantitative change” which eventually …
I believe techniques from math and science are able to help us produce stronger organizations (if the educational and political barriers can be worked through).
If this is true, we should probably be able to …
This is a piece I made recently titled In Transit.
It depicts paths, which each transition from random motion to a regular spiral motion as the letters along the path grow.
It is a generative piece, meaning it …
Mao wrote
The law of contradiction in things, that is, the law of the unity of opposites, is the basic law of materialist dialectics… The fundamental cause of the development of a thing is not external …
Recently I have been doing some math again. Mostly exercises for a class I’m auditing on combinatorial limits.
One thing I forgot about math is how most of the time spent doing math is spent feeling very …
$$\newcommand{\Set}[1]{\\{ #1 \\}}$$ In his book Logics of Worlds, Badiou gives a formal mathematical definition of a “world”, but does not construct a single concrete example. In this note, I give a concrete …
A few more prints I’ve done recently. Here are some Risograph prints I made in 2023 and the first half of 2024. Apologies for the photos being a bit dim.
Posters for a Seeing Red talk. A map to the …
Happy New Year!
There is a well-known cellular-automaton based method for generating images that look like caves.
Each cell is either “empty” or a “wall”. The rule is: if the immediate …
Tarkovsky’s “Sacrifice” is an incredible film. The film successfully captures a shred of the absolute: the truth of the unending process of living and dying. A central image of the film …
