*(not imperial) †(in the present, 4 March 2026: Iran) I. Classical Geometric Order c. 5th century BCE–late antiquity Key shift: Movement subordinated to geometry. * Plato — ideal forms as spatial intelligibility * Aristotle — ordered cosmos; teleological motion * Euclidean geometry formalises space as stable structure * Polis as body politic: centred, proportioned, bounded

why am I mediating this through AI? for structural reasons, because I have nobody to keep up with me and, because I want you to keep up with me, I think what the AI writes is easier than I am to understand. when I read that Claude AI quicker than

[link] is very interesting because it shows a complete misprision which I had not suspected was possible. From the notion of lines of correspondence connecting successive frames, with small variations to accommodate movement, it drew the conclusion that this density confirmed the presence of duration. I began: you completely misunderstood

In taking up some lines from ⑧, before ⑩, the current post assays brevity, as Dorothy Parker says the soul of lingerie, so is more in keeping with the format of a Digest as I describe it here, where there is an email link, which, just as I encourage you to subscribe

—in- and finite, in- and animate; natural, artificial; living, mechanical, dead... The list goes on, but we have lost the sense, say since the publication of Frankenstein, of what is artificial and mechanical being also inanimate, dead. Rather than make a mystery of a living machine, a finite body, or

After cinema what does memory do? This is the question I am trying to answer. By 'after cinema' I mean after its advent as a globally accessible technology, a globally successful technology, which spread out to all four corners of the world, since the world then had them,