Criminal Minds 11.11 | Entropy

Feeling foxy lately,

*upon someone mentioning the laws of thermodynamics or entropy to me* Ah yes, I have also seen Puella Magi Madoka Magica

re:

Pushed through with this one, I discarded 5 sketches before this.

Wow, heart eye reveal?

Laurence Jones — Towards a New Entropy (acrylic on linen, 2023)

always good to see the lone power bettering the universe in some ways

(snicker) However accidentally, and (ideally) out of sight, where people will have a lot more trouble indicating what they're pointing and laughing at. :)

I embroideried

Entropy (tav): *Laying face down on the bar* Astarion: So Karlach said she liked you? Entropy (tav), muffled: Yeah Astarion: ...and you asked her to marry you? Entropy (tav): Yeah Astarion: …and?! How’d she react?! Entropy (tav): Dunno, I ran before I could scare her even more *Meanwhile* Karlach, kicking in the door to the Wylls’s room with 12 bottles of champagne: Wyll! Babe! Holy shit! I'm gonna get married!

Criminal Minds 11.11 | Entropy

I've driven past this field full of abandoned vehicles a few times a year for about 15 years. I always wanted to stop and take photos, but I was warned that the man who lives there was not friendly. Well, since time makes fools of us all, the gun-toting landowner is now no longer a problem.

Relax

Black sharpie on manila paper

Miami 2009

Time and entropy arise mutually like a boat and its wake. Entropy is fractal. Time never began.

So relax.

Black sharpie on manila paper

Miami 2009

What remains today of Newton's fundamental breakthrough? Modern life, our system of education founded on the requirements of punctuality, scholastic exercises on the charts of train schedules, geographic maps—all this inculcates in us, from childhood, a very Newtonian idea of space and time. This is why we have such difficulty perceiving the absurdity of questions such as"What lies beyond the limits of the universe?" or "What existed before the creation of the world—or before the Big Bang?" We marvel at the apparent modernness of Saint Augustine, who was already addressing similar questions fifteen centuries ago: "Time did not exist before heavens and earth.” But few among us know or have really assimilated the Kantian critique of the concepts of space and time. Kant constructed this critique specifically to chart the boundaries between knowledge and faith, to free science from metaphysical presuppositions, to deliver geometry from the shadow of theology to which Newton had in fact ascribed it. For Kant, space and time are not things in themselves but "forms of intuition”—in other words, they constitute a canvas that allows us to decipher the existence of the world. According to Kant, things "in themselves" are neither in space nor in time. It is the human mind that, in the very act of perception, superimposes these categories, which are its own and without which perception would be impossible. This does not exactly mean that space and time are illusions or pure inventions of the human mind. These frameworks are imposed on us through empirical contact with nature and are not, therefore, "arbitrary.” They no more belong to things in themselves than they belong to the mind alone; rather, they exist because of the dialogue between the mind and things. They are, in the final analysis, an unavoidable product of motion itself by means of which the mind searches to apprehend—to understand—the outside world.

Rémy Lestienne, The Children of Time: Causality, Entropy, Becoming

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