Misplaced: why do #novelists disguise real locations? (2015)

"...apart from #Faulkner the #modernist #novel forewent, for the most part, the fictitious place. #Joyce’s Dublin, #Bely’s St Petersburg, #Musil’s Vienna, #Döblin’s Berlin, #DosPassos’s Manhattan, Céline’s Paris, #Woolf’s #London were almost overwhelmingly realistic. Was this a reaction to the quaintness of Little Baddington, Glimmerglass Lake, Dotheboys Hall, Pemberley, Tillietudlem and Langdirdum?"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/26/misplaced-why-do-novelists-disguise-real-locations

#books

A racehorse of genius. #Musil https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/65797785

Right now, #Musil's 'Stabat Mater' with Kaspárková, Balázová, Javorský and Nosek from #Brno https://pst.cr/dQV18 #wch

In 20 minutes, #Musil's 'Stabat Mater' with Kaspárková, Balázová, Javorský and Nosek from #Brno https://pst.cr/dQV18 #wch

Today, #Musil's 'Stabat Mater' with Kaspárková, Balázová, Javorský and Nosek from #Brno https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/musils_stabat_mater_with_kasparkova_balazova_javorsk_and_nosek_from_brno/74896/ #wch

#CfP für die #Tagung "'Das Unglück von Gymnasiasten'? Robert Musil in Didaktik und Pädagogik", die vom 13.-15. April 2023 in Klagenfurt und online stattfinden wird.

🗓️Deadline für Abstracts: 15. März 2023

📌Weitere Informationen: https://avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/das-unglueck-von-gymnasiasten-robert-musil-in-didaktik-und-padagogik-klagenfurt/ #fidavlnews @germanistik @litstudies #Musil #Didaktik #Pädagogik

❝The same thing cannot, however, be said about mathematics; for here we have the new method of thought, pure intellect, the very well‑spring of the times, the fons et origo of an unfathomable transformation.❞

— Robert #Musil • #DMOE
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_3#Transformations_of_Discourse

❝It is understandable that an engineer should be completely absorbed in his speciality, instead of pouring himself out into the freedom and vastness of the world of thought, even though his machines are being sent off to the ends of the earth; for he no more needs to be capable of applying to his own personal soul what is daring and new in the soul of his subject than a machine is in fact capable of applying to itself the differential calculus on which it is based.❞

— Robert #Musil • #DMOE

Transformations of Discourse
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_3#Transformations_of_Discourse

❝The same thing cannot, however, be said about mathematics; for here we have the new method of thought, pure intellect, the very well‑spring of the times, the fons et origo of an unfathomable transformation.❞

— Robert #Musil • #TheManWithoutQualities

#Logic #DifferentialLogic #DiscreteDynamicalSystems
#LogicalTransformations #TransformationsOfDiscourse

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Transformations of Discourse
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_3#Transformations_of_Discourse

… ❝for he no more needs to be capable of applying to his own personal soul what is daring and new in the soul of his subject than a machine is in fact capable of applying to itself the differential calculus on which it is based.❞ …

— Robert #Musil • #TheManWithoutQualities

#Logic #DifferentialLogic #DiscreteDynamicalSystems
#LogicalTransformations #TransformationsOfDiscourse

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#TransformationsOfDiscourse

❝It is understandable that an engineer should be completely absorbed in his speciality, instead of pouring himself out into the freedom and vastness of the world of thought, even though his machines are being sent off to the ends of the earth;❞ …

— Robert #Musil • #TheManWithoutQualities
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_3#Transformations_of_Discourse

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@Harishjosev

❝And if he is told that something is the way it is, then he thinks: Well, it could probably just as easily be some other way. So the sense of possibility might be defined outright as the capacity to think how everything could “just as easily” be, and to attach no more importance to what is than to what is not.❞

— Robert Musil • The Man Without Qualities
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_4#Analytic_Series_:_Coordinate_Method

#Ashby #Musil #Cybernetics #Constraints
#DifferentialLogic #QualitativeDynamics

Pencil sketch of the great #translator Burton Pike, from a photo I took of him after our 2016 #podcast. He died yesterday (Dec. 22, 2022). Our conversation is at http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-159-burton-pike if you'd like to listen to it

#books #bookstodon #translation #Musil #RobertMusil #TheManWithoutQualities

RIP Burton Pike, #translator of #Musil’s #TheManWithoutQualities. Our 2016 conversation was one of my all-time faves http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-159-burton-pike
#books #bookstodon #translation

#mood: „General Stumms Bemühungen, Ordnung in den Zivilstand zu bringen“ und sein Versuch eines Grundbuchsblatts der modernen Kultur eindeutig meine heimliche Lieblingspassage im „Mann ohne Eigenschaften“.

#Musil #MoE #LitWiss #Philologie #Weltanschauungsroman #Körperkultur #Moderne

A supplement to extract from my chapter on #timemachines for ‘Memories of the Future’ (Peter Lang, 2017) - my bit on #Musil and #themanwithoutqualities

Das hab ich 2018 beim Durcharbeiten in Hinblick auf Zusammenhänge zu #Weltanschauungsdenken und #Weltanschauungsliteratur der Jahrhundertwende mal komplett verzettelt - und nun stellt sich die Frage: Für die Relektüre mit Fokus auf #Sport/#Boxen, #Körperkultur und #Moderne erst entzetteln oder doch Zettelschichten wagen?

#Boxsemantik #BoxLiteratur #LitWiss #Musil #MoE #PostDocLife

I've lost a lot of confidence in the mind,
(#Musil MWQ V3 Ch53)

Wonder if it was a good idea to put all the supplementary material for the new Robert Musil Gesamtausgabe on a website rather than in the actual books.
#RobertMusil #Musil

I was doing a #Musil #ManWithoutQualities 🧵 every few Chapters on the MuskRat site ( not its most popular 🧵at that), and I'll continue with it here, once in a while...

(III, 16) If only more politicians wrote books (sweating off their excess water), the Balance of Power would be more...balanced I guess