October 20, 2006

• Conceptual Art:

  High Concept
  
  (Continued from 8/23/05)

  "At present, such relationships can
  at best be heuristically described
  in terms that invoke some notion
  of an 'intelligent user standing
  outside the system.'"

  -- Gian-Carlo Rota in
  Indiscrete Thoughts, p. 152

  Related Material

  The Devil's Bible and
  Nothing Nothings (Again).

  The Context

  One context for the Rota quote
  is Paul Halmos's remark, quoted
   
  in today's New York Times,
  that mathematics is
  "almost like being
  in
  touch with God."

  Another context is

  Log24 on Aug. 29, 2005.

  
  Here is the original context:

  

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