The forests of the unconscious
We start from a large data-set $V=\{ k,l,m,n,\dots \}$ (texts, events, DNA-samples, …) with a suitable distance-function ($d(m,n) \geq 0~d(k,l)+d(l,m) \geq d(k.m)$) which measures the (dis)similarity...
View ArticleA newish toy in town
In a recent post I recalled Claude Levy-Strauss’ observation “In Paris, intellectuals need a new toy every 15 years”, and gave a couple of links showing that the most recent IHES-toy has been spreading...
View ArticleGrothendieck’s gribouillis (5)
After the death of Grothendieck in November 2014, about 30.000 pages of his writings were found in Lasserre. Since then I’ve been trying to follow what happened to them: Where are Grothendieck’s...
View ArticleBourbaki and TØP : East is up
Somehow I missed all the excitement, five years ago. From Bourbaki’s Wikipedia page. In 2018, the American musical duo Twenty One Pilots released a concept album named Trench. The album’s conceptual...
View ArticleBourbaki = Bishops or Banditos?
In this series I’m trying to make sense of the inclusion of Nicolas Bourbaki in the storyline of Trench, the fifth studio album by American musical duo Twenty One Pilots (or TØP). That story is about...
View ArticleWhere’s Bourbaki’s Dema?
In this series I’m trying to figure out why the Bourbaki-group was an inspiration for the storyline of Trench, the fifth studio album by American musical duo Twenty One Pilots (or TØP). Trench-lore...
View ArticleWeil photos used in Dema-lore
On April 20th of 2018, twenty one pilots updated their store page to include a video with a hidden message at the end of it. and with a bit of sleuthing it led to a page on the dmaorg.info site...
View ArticleDema2Trench, AND REpeat
There’s this band Twenty One Pilots and they’ve woven a complicated story around some of their albums, notably Blurryface, Trench, and Scaled and Icy. Since Trench, an important component of that story...
View ArticleTØP PhotoShop mysteries
Suppose you’re writing a book, and for the duration of that project you keep a certain photo as your desktop-background. I guess we might assume that picture to be inspirational for your writing...
View Article9 Bourbaki founding members, really?
The Clique (Twenty Øne Piløts fanatic fanbase) is convinced that the nine Bishops of Dema were modelled after the Bourbaki-group. It is therefore of no surprise to see a Photoshopped version...
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