Ornament as a formalist object

The mathematician as a formalist

Enacting aporia: Roger Caillois' game typology as formalist methodology

This game analysis experimentally transposes Louis Hjelmslev's linguistic methodology, for logically deducing semiotic schema from a given text, to the analysis of games. Roger Caillois' fourfold model of game type rubrics is therefore reconceptualized, as a logically coherent analytic framework, from which an analysis might proceed indefinitely. Such analysis was practiced on a Dutch translati...

THE FORMALIST REVOLUTION OF THE 1950s

Something happened to economics in the decade of the 1950s that is little appreciated by most economists and even by professional historians of economic thought. The subject went through an intellectual revolution as profound in its impact as the so-called Keynesian Revolution of pre-war years. I call it the Formalist Revolution after Ward (1972, pp. 40–41), who was the first to recognize the p...

Proof and Prejudice: Why Formalising Doesn’t Make You a Formalist

The topic of this thesis is the relationship between formal and informal proofs. Chapter One opens the discussion by examining what a proof is, when two proofs are identical, what the purpose of proving is and how to distinguish the two categories of proof. Chapters Two and Three focus in on informal and formal proof respectively, with the latter also including descriptions of various computati...

Toward a Materialist-Formalist History of Twentieth-Century Irish Literature

Most accounts of contemporary Irish culture tend to be largely affirmative, evenWhiggish, in cast. The contemporary cultural moment is recurrently described as one characterized by renaissance, experiment, and iconoclasm, a moment vitalized by the emergence of radical new voices, styles, media, forms, and energies. This upbeat view is clearly underpinned by a broader sociohistorical narrative, ...