No sooner have I posted the previous, than I’ve come across this interview with the artist Elizabeth Zvonar, who has also constructed some of Hinton’s cubes – from rainbow-coloured glass, no less. I’d realy like to see these, but there aren’t any images of them on the site of the gallery hosting her show, sadly. [...]
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Cubic addendum
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art history, cubism, henderson, Hinton, zvonar on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ripples in Flatland
Posted in Uncategorized on August 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A link to a youtube video of Carl Sagan using Flatland as a demonstration model for describing higher dimensional space was posted last week by Fortean blog The Daily Grail. This fits snugly into the stream of twentieth century responses to Abbott’s book that exploits its pedagogical intent and Sagan’s lesson demonstrates just how effective [...]
Rucker on Boole-Stott / Hinton’s bigamy
Posted in Hinton, Howard Hinton, fourth dimension, tagged Hinton, rucker on June 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Rudy Rucker has onlined the intro to his edited collection of Hinton’s work here. After first encountering Hinton in Iain Sinclair’s White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings, this was the piece of writing that really got me hooked. It’s a real boon to have it online, so respect to the man like Rudy.
He’s linked to it as [...]
Angles conference
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Forthcoming conference paper
Flatland criticism…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Edwin Abbott, Flatland, fourth dimension, sci-fi, Science Fiction, SF, Suvin, Victorian Studies, victoriana on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In which the secondary criticism of Edwin Abbott Abbott’s text is reviewed and considered…
Hinton photos
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged C.H. Hinton, Charles Howard Hinton, What is the Fourth Dimension? on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the absence of a written post last week (immersion in secondary literature on Flatland has really just identified much further reading and not produced much in the way of original material), some archival Hinton imagery.
The first is a family photograph taken at the studio of K Yoshida in Kanazawa ca 1890 (the image is [...]
The dimensional romance continued…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 4d, Brake, C.H. Hinton, Charles Howard Hinton, Edwin Abbott, Flatland, fourth dimension, Hinton, nineteenth century, sci-fi, Science Fiction, SF, Suvin, Victorian Studies, victoriana, What is the Fourth Dimension? on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In which the publishing contexts of late 1884 [not to put too fine a date on it] are considered in relation to Abbott and Hinton.
Flatland illustrations
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 4d, Aristophanes, Edwin Abbott, Flatland, fourth dimension, illustration, nineteenth century, Shakespeare, Victorian Studies, victoriana on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In which the opneing and closing illustrations of Edwin Abbott’s Flatland are given some thought…
A Tangled Tale: knots, matter and magic in the 1870s
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Text of a paper given at the WiP conference at Birkbeck on 7 February 2009.
Introduction
Posted in Uncategorized on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To whit: prefatory remarks.
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