Y Imagery:
In a message dated 3/17/02 11:24:20 AM, wtropic@ufl.edu
writes:
Re: Y Imagery
<< Try the vietnam vet memorial by Maya Lin. Its half a wishbone at least
>et al,
In a message dated 3/17/02 4:56:25 PM, gulmer@english.ufl.edu writes:
RE- Re- Free FRE
<< more Y's
the Y correspondence is accessed on my site through an animated gif of
the Challenger explosion that produced the Y contrails, which inspired
the man who designed the Astronaut's memorial.
www.nwe.ufl.edu/elf/experiments2.html
best
Greg >>
In a message dated 3/18/02 3:27:22 PM, gulmer@english.ufl.edu
writes:
prose
<<CONDUCTION
The wishing custom is explicitly invoked as a supplement to empirical
problem-solving. The wish takes up where practical utility leaves off.
The wish does not replace empirical reason, but resonates with the
Holocaust imperative of Warumverbot ("here there is no 'why,'" said
of
the concentration camps). As a consultation, the wish draws upon the
fourth mode of inference--conduction (after abduction, deduction,
induction)--the reasoning specific to image. Image inference moves from
the given to the unknown along an associative chain of shapes: in this
case, the Y shape of the initial wishbone. Image inference opens
conceptual idea or eidos ("shape" as "topos" or topic) to
any natural or
designed shape, as a possible category or place for gathering
heterogeneous bits of information into an order (chora). Thus the
wishbone Y traverses other semantic domains such as the Pythagorean Y,
dowsing (the Y-shaped dowsing rod), the switch in all its embodiments
(from railroad "frogs" to routers), the Y contrails formed by the
Challenger shuttle when it exploded, and bifurcation points in chaos.
The resulting (temporary) eidos may be used as an image classification
system (a metaphysics) to re-articulate reality. The consulting premise
is that what constitutes a "problem" (and possible solutions) is
determined by what a category system renders thinkable.>>
In a message dated 3/20/02 11:46:27 AM, gulmer@english.ufl.edu
writes:
Re- revised draft Y
<< Hi Will
ok, I look forward to getting the leonardo piece (sounds really good).
also, here is a URL for a pic of a woman holding a dowsing rod (upside
down Y). for the Y collection (you might want to edit it a bit, I see I
didn't remove the text part).
web.nwe.ufl.edu/~gulmer/book/dowsing.jpg
best
g >>
In a message dated 3/24/02 12:46:27 PM, gulmer@english.ufl.edu
writes:
Re- N Y Time(s) 2
<< Will
the Y in New York is open as a switch also
and another for the Y collection, relevant to the Haitian encounter
source of our syncretic divination is the fact that the Y shape is
important in the sign code of Voudun (Vodou, Voodoo etc) known as "veve."
best
Greg >>
In a message dated 4/13/02 1:34 PM, Willpap writes:
Re2: Soft Wishing Y Glue
<<No doubt this will work for the pixel-bit-pom, also built from correspondances,
string many of these together and you have a confluence, an attractive image
that sticks.>>
In a message dated 7/5/02 4:11:06 PM, gulmer@english.ufl.edu
writes:
Re: 9-11 (fwd)
<< Hi Will
just a bit of info passed along from Nina Hofer, who was involved with a
journal issue relating to 9-11. You probably saw the flyer to which she
refers.
how goes it?
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 06:45:51 -0400
From: Nina Hofer <adeline@ufl.edu>
I checked out your FRE site and particularly the wishing why.
I gave lee a contribution to the project
a xerox sheet which was pastered everywhere after 9/11
the nyc subway token symbol
slightly altered to read both as nyc and as a peace symb ol.
it is of course also a wishbone.
In a message dated 7/06/02 8:26 PM, Willpap writes:
Re: 9-11 (fwd)
Hello Greg,
Thanks for the forward. Another addition to the my-sterious symbol system. Yes
we did see the many peace signs around NYC After 911 and the Y configuration
within has occurred to me. Attached to this e-mail is yet another uncanny screen
image that dawned on me as and I have begun to spend some time at our barn and
property in Western Mass. The barn is registered in town as the the "Music
Barn." No doubt the architect consulted voodoo and could see the future.
Let me know if you can't open the image and I will put it on the Web.
Feeling a bit behind in getting material to you since I have been detoured latey
by multiple visits from family wanting to see our new abode. Monday and this
week you should begin to see a flow of words and images as I can finally get
back to work again. Really apologize if this holds you up at all but this move
has taken more time than than Iever thought.
Until a few days hence...
Will
In a message dated 7/5/02 4:11:06 PM, gulmer@english.ufl.edu writes:
<< Hi Will
just a bit of info passed along from Nina Hofer, who was involved with a
journal issue relating to 9-11. You probably saw the flyer to which she
refers.
how goes it? >>
In a message dated 7/7/02 11:38:33 AM, gulmer@english.ufl.edu
writes:
Re- barnscreens
<< the jpg came through fine.
what a great room, and view! plus
the peace Y is imposed on the mystorical popcycle quadrant. very
useful to think in these terms: we are plugged into a basic geometric
shape, read as an eidos, to be followed wherever it leads--the heuretic
flash of digital inference, conduction, leaping through the encyclopedia.
bst
G >>
In a message dated 7/08/02 10:44 PM, Willpap writes:
Re- barnscreens
Follow the Y it wherever it leads. An excellent idea. The wishing walk. This
could well be the navigational answer to the myside of this choragraphy. Does
it split or come together?
This Yeidos has so many resosances- it is musical after all. But they do seem
to come from your haunting. Here are some more inferences upon/through the screen
screens:
There are two barn screens side-by-side, suggesting the splitting, the doubling,
the recognition/reoccurrence of this in that, the problem of singular apprehension,
ideology, etc.
The lightning bolt, the eidos of your conduction theory, splits as it hits the
earth, the upside down the Y as it crosses the horizontal bar on the barn screens.
And so it is with the process of digital search as the first question always
splits into more and more avenues. (This is the reflection of the digital binary.)
At times we follow the path that seems to conduct the most, at others the choice
is random.
And I remember you drew a voodun symbol of an upsidedown Y with a third line
between the fork. I can't help thinking of the barn interior, its library and
artifacts, holding, embodying so many references to the "noblility"
of euro/greek literate tradition- deduction- and then, this method as it passes
through the voodoo screen- methods of conduction. also ref. your idea of the
Caribbean/Greek/Jew.
One more note,
<<leaping through the encyclopedia>> there a number older books
in the library called "Cyclopedias" suggesting knowledge is less comprehensive
and more ambulatory.
I'm thinking online.
W Double YY and ll>>