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*(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

Diplomatic progress has been abandoned in favour of war. War is an academic exercise, with academics weighing the blood. Blood weighs more if there exist geopolitical stakes. Gaza is weightless. War weighs more if it's weighed in ordnance which can be converted to orders and sales. This is

From the beginning of the history of the moving image’s development, note that it is moving, from the beginning, the moving image has captured the indetermination we find in nature. That is, the indetermination that is contingent on our material conditions.  Freed from those conditions, the moving image, the

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