Serpent logics: a ramble
[ by Charles Cameron — continuing my exploration of a pattern language of thoughts, both verbal and imagistic ]
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This is a ship-shipping ship, shipping shipping ships. pic.twitter.com/GqzTB866WK via @usmanm
— Nat. Maritime Museum (@NMMGreenwich) October 15, 2013
One of my favorite patterns derives from the nesting of Russian dolls inside Russian dolls, so it’s only appropriate to start with an example of what I can only call.. Matrioshka shipping!
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It’s my habit, as you may have seen, to collect certain “ways of thinking” in the miniature format provided by my Twitterstream. Whether you think of them as logical forms, patterns in a pattern language, or amuse-bouches for the mind, they are here to delight and instruct — and when you pile a whole lot of them up together, they can make you just a touch dizzy.
Today I’ll be bringing my collection up to date with two posts, Serpent logics: a ramble, and Serpent logics: the marathon. If you want a quick look at some of the neat patterns I’ve seen since I last posted on these topics, this post — Serpent logics: a ramble — is the one for you. If, after reading it, you want a gruelling, hilarious, insightful, insane, devious, extended course in this kind of pattern recognition — try Serpent logics: the marathon.
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Here’s one from today, tweeted as I was prepping this post — in a category I’ll simply call…
Counter-intuitive?
When the personal is not political. Indian-origin slave-owner in UK a Marxist-Communist. http://t.co/R0i8krpLE4
— Shivam Vij (@DilliDurAst) November 24, 2013
Admit it, that’s just a trifle mind-blowing, no? C’mon!
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Serpent Bites Tail:
Here’s a light-and-dark-hearted example of the ourobouros or serpent-bites-tail recursive patterm, with a hat tip to Allan Stairs:
What is the operation by which a self relates itself to its own self, transparently? Selfie.
— KimKierkegaardashian (@KimKierkegaard) September 18, 2013
Follow Kim Kierkegaardashian (@KimKierkegaard) on Twitter if you like mashups between the deepest of theologians and the shallowest of celebrities…
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I have no idea what category this one belongs in, so I’ll slip it in here. It’s from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, protecting our digital private parts:
It's great even NSA is using our Tor explainer. But they're violating our CC license by classifying it Top Secret. https://t.co/m1B2kzsr0W
— EFF (@EFF) October 4, 2013
Oh my! A Clash of Classifications!
The EFF even has it’s own playful-serious version of the NSA logo —
— as the DoubleQuote above — juxtaposing how the Agency views itself with how the EFF sees it — illustrates…
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DoubleQuotes in the Wild
The Wailing Wall in Jerusalm and Spain… pic.twitter.com/nNmm6cbGtp via @SonParecidos
— Kasper Ploegman (@Kasper_P) November 19, 2013
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