Performativizing Papyrocentricity #61

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

Orchid KidThe Orchid Hunter: A Young Botanist’s Search for Happiness, Leif Bersweden (Short Books 2017)

Deep in the DarkThe Tunnel, Eric Williams (1951)

Faces and FactsThe Self-Portrait: A Cultural History, James Hall (Thames & Hudson 2014)

Persian PoolReligions of Iran: From Prehistory to the Present, Richard Foltz (Oneworld 2013)

Hooky HereUnknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, Peter Hook (Simon & Schuster 2012)

#MiTooMorbidly Miriam: The Mephitic Memoirs of Miriam B. Stimbers, Dr Miriam B. Stimbers (TransVisceral Books 2018)


• Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR

Methylomania

अभि द्यां महिना भुवमभीमां पृथिवीं महीम् ।
कुवित्सोमस्यापामिति ॥८॥
हन्ताहं पृथिवीमिमां नि दधानीह वेह वा ।
कुवित्सोमस्यापामिति ॥९॥ — ऋग्वेदः सूक्तं १०.११९

“In my vastness, I surpassed the sky and this vast earth. Have I not drunk Soma? / Yes! I will place the earth here, or perhaps there. Have I not drunk Soma?” — Ṛg Veda, Mandala 10, Hymn 119, lines 8-9, translated by Wendy Doniger


Note: The title of this incendiary intervention is a portmanteau of “methylated” and “megalomania”. “Methylated” comes from the ancient Greek μέθυ, meaning “wine” and related to μέθυστος “drunk, intoxicated” (OED).

The Hex Fractor #2

Pre-previously on Overlord-in-terms-of-issues-around-the-Über-Feral, I looked at the fractals created when various restrictions are placed on a point jumping at random half-way towards the vertices of a square. For example, the point can be banned from jumping towards the same vertex twice in a row or towards the vertex to the left of the vertex it has just jumped towards, and so on.

Today I want to look at what happens to a similar point moving inside pentagons and hexagons. If the point can’t jump twice towards the same vertex of a pentagon, this is the fractal that appears:

Ban second jump towards same vertex (v + 0)


Ban second jump towards same vertex (color)


If the point can’t jump towards the vertex immediately to the left of the one it’s just jumped towards, this is the fractal that appears:

Ban jump towards v + 1


Ban jump towards v + 1 (color)


And this is the fractal when the ban is on the vertex two places to the left:

Ban jump towards v + 2


Ban jump towards v + 2 (color)


You can also ban more than one vertex:

Ban jump towards v + 0,1


Ban jump towards v + 1,2


Ban jump towards v + 1,4


Ban jump towards v + 1,4 (color)


Ban jump towards v + 2,3


And here are fractals created in similar ways inside hexagons:

Ban jump towards v + 0,1


Ban jump towards v + 0,3


Ban jump towards v + 0,1,2


Ban jump towards v + 0,1,2 (color)


Ban jump towards v + 0,1,4


Ban jump towards v + 0,1,5


Ban jump towards v + 0,2,4


Ban jump towards v + 0,2,4 (color)


Ban jump towards v + 1,2,3


Ban jump towards v + 1,2,3 (color)


Ban jump towards v + 1,2,4


Ban jump towards v + 1,2,4, (color)


Ban jump towards v + 1,3,5


Ban jump towards v + 1,3,5 (color)


Ban jump towards v + 1,2


Ban jump towards v + 1,2


Ban jump towards v + 1,3


Ban jump towards v + 1,3 (color)


Ban jump towards v + 1,5


Ban jump towards v + 1,5 (color)


Ban jump towards v + 2,3


Ban jump towards v + 2,3 (color)


Ban jump towards v + 2,4


Ban jump towards v + 2,4 (color)


Elsewhere other-accessible:

Square Routes Re-Verticed

A Counter-Cultural Conundrum

If three keyly committed core components of the counter-cultural community say “in terms of” 105 times in an hour, how many times will one keyly committed core component of the counter-cultural community say “prior to” in terms of 23 minutes?


Elsewhere Other-Accessible:

Ex-term-in-ate!
Titus Graun: Heresy, Homotextuality, Hive-Mind
All O.o.t.Ü.-F. posts engaging issues around I.T.O.

A Clockwork Orang

A portrait of the clockmaker Thomas Mudge by Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1772)


Note: The title of this incendiary intervention was buried by Anthony Burgess in the title of his magisterial A Clockwork Orange (1962): in Malay, orang means “man” (as in orangutan, “man of the forest”). The book asks whether man is clockwork or has free will. Obviously, Thomas Mudge was a “clockwork orang” in another sense.