Isomorphism, so often it’s losing by winning.
This is an essential link in the history of the transformation of the public sphere not the least because--I suspect--many of the communicative strategies of tabloids were integrated into social/digital media, be it strategically (Fox News) or not (as a new cultural formation).
I know there’s a lot happening right now but I want to say this:
I’ve been deeply affected by the way the 80s tabloid media has been almost entirely memory-holed. Not even a lot of today’s media scholars seem to appreciate how much tabloids shaped everything, much less the political scholars
I’ve been deeply affected by the way the 80s tabloid media has been almost entirely memory-holed. Not even a lot of today’s media scholars seem to appreciate how much tabloids shaped everything, much less the political scholars
September 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Isomorphism, so often it’s losing by winning.
Mimetic isomorphism, do your thing
April 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Mimetic isomorphism, do your thing
fun isomorphism: power fantasy for disenfranchised trans women is also horror for cisnormativists. you can do some interesting things with that
February 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
fun isomorphism: power fantasy for disenfranchised trans women is also horror for cisnormativists. you can do some interesting things with that
the relationship between physical object & mathematical representation cannot be "isomorphism", which would be a category error. but it is isomorphic to isomorphism.
June 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
the relationship between physical object & mathematical representation cannot be "isomorphism", which would be a category error. but it is isomorphic to isomorphism.
Father Isomorphism, is that you?
April 11, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Father Isomorphism, is that you?
Horror story:
Up to noncanonical isomorphism
Up to noncanonical isomorphism
October 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Horror story:
Up to noncanonical isomorphism
Up to noncanonical isomorphism
Unique up to isomorphism
June 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Unique up to isomorphism
the donkweed operator describes an isomorphism between the wolf and donkey groups
December 17, 2024 at 9:18 PM
the donkweed operator describes an isomorphism between the wolf and donkey groups
Reminds me of the great gig the institutional ecology sociologists had studying isomorphism in craft breweries and Michelin starred French restaurants.
Hm, can’t hit this up due to soccer practice but Makes One Think
September 24, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Reminds me of the great gig the institutional ecology sociologists had studying isomorphism in craft breweries and Michelin starred French restaurants.
Obtaining him by means of a non unique isomorphism
July 31, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Obtaining him by means of a non unique isomorphism
circe's theorem states that there exists an isomorphism between men and pigs,
August 14, 2026 at 2:38 AM
circe's theorem states that there exists an isomorphism between men and pigs,
There is nothing like the feeling you get when you first understand how the Choi–Jamiołkowski isomorphism works.
April 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
There is nothing like the feeling you get when you first understand how the Choi–Jamiołkowski isomorphism works.
New on the low-depth complexity of Group Isomorphism: the first nontrivial circuit lower bounds and quasipoly-size depth-2 1/2 upper bounds -- departing from the generator-enumerator approach underlying prior low-depth work: instead we use composition series, group extensions, & short presentations.
Group Isomorphism and the Polylogarithmic-Time Hierarchy: Depth-2$\frac{1}{2}$ Circuits and Lower Bounds
In this paper, we investigate the low-depth circuit complexity of Group Isomorphism in the multiplication (Cayley) table model. We prove the first circuit lower bounds for Group Isomorphism: namely, w...
arxiv.org
August 29, 2026 at 1:09 PM
New on the low-depth complexity of Group Isomorphism: the first nontrivial circuit lower bounds and quasipoly-size depth-2 1/2 upper bounds -- departing from the generator-enumerator approach underlying prior low-depth work: instead we use composition series, group extensions, & short presentations.
im not entirely sure what 'isomorphism' means but its still a pleasing shape for a word
November 20, 2023 at 2:09 PM
im not entirely sure what 'isomorphism' means but its still a pleasing shape for a word
“a man cannot step in the same river twice, he can only do so up to quasi-isomorphism”
February 26, 2026 at 4:26 AM
“a man cannot step in the same river twice, he can only do so up to quasi-isomorphism”
Joshua A. Grochow, Jacob Urisman
Graph Isomorphism and Representation Theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26244
Graph Isomorphism and Representation Theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26244
June 26, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Joshua A. Grochow, Jacob Urisman
Graph Isomorphism and Representation Theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26244
Graph Isomorphism and Representation Theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26244
polycule graph isomorphism
September 19, 2025 at 6:58 AM
polycule graph isomorphism
"Knowledge" is just a rough isomorphism of structures in the cells of the brain to something else outside the brain.
September 26, 2026 at 12:48 AM
"Knowledge" is just a rough isomorphism of structures in the cells of the brain to something else outside the brain.
Here is the reminder to update your institutional isomorphism slides
“When it comes to AI adoption, many companies aren’t guided by strategy but by ‘Fomo’,” said Haritha Khandabattu, senior director analyst at consultancy Gartner.
www.ft.com/content/e93e...
www.ft.com/content/e93e...
America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides
FT analysis of hundreds of filings suggests the S&P 500 businesses are clearer about the risks than benefits
www.ft.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Here is the reminder to update your institutional isomorphism slides
Huh, Sora 2 knows a lot of things:
“Ethan Mollick parachuting into a volcano, explains the three forms of legitimation from DiMaggio, Paul; Powell, Walter. (April 1983). "The iron cage revisited: institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields"
(Only 15 second limit)
“Ethan Mollick parachuting into a volcano, explains the three forms of legitimation from DiMaggio, Paul; Powell, Walter. (April 1983). "The iron cage revisited: institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields"
(Only 15 second limit)
October 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Huh, Sora 2 knows a lot of things:
“Ethan Mollick parachuting into a volcano, explains the three forms of legitimation from DiMaggio, Paul; Powell, Walter. (April 1983). "The iron cage revisited: institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields"
(Only 15 second limit)
“Ethan Mollick parachuting into a volcano, explains the three forms of legitimation from DiMaggio, Paul; Powell, Walter. (April 1983). "The iron cage revisited: institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields"
(Only 15 second limit)
I will be interested in how the fancy places split on undergrad chatbot usage since isomorphism can push that onto everyone else. Feels like Harvard and Chicago are on opposite ends of the spectrum.
September 4, 2026 at 10:42 PM
I will be interested in how the fancy places split on undergrad chatbot usage since isomorphism can push that onto everyone else. Feels like Harvard and Chicago are on opposite ends of the spectrum.
I used to think I was unique.
As I got older, I realized I was only unique up to isomorphism.
Now I'm only unique up to coarse equivalence.
As I got older, I realized I was only unique up to isomorphism.
Now I'm only unique up to coarse equivalence.
May 18, 2026 at 7:10 PM
I used to think I was unique.
As I got older, I realized I was only unique up to isomorphism.
Now I'm only unique up to coarse equivalence.
As I got older, I realized I was only unique up to isomorphism.
Now I'm only unique up to coarse equivalence.
Sociologists DiMaggio & Powell called the process you're talking about "institutional isomorphism" and claimed that orgs copy each other because when they need to decide something and don't know how, they look to another org and assume (probably wrongly) they had a good reason for doing it that way.
The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields on JSTOR
Paul J. DiMaggio, Walter W. Powell, The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields, American Sociological Review, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Apr., 1983), p...
www.jstor.org
July 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Sociologists DiMaggio & Powell called the process you're talking about "institutional isomorphism" and claimed that orgs copy each other because when they need to decide something and don't know how, they look to another org and assume (probably wrongly) they had a good reason for doing it that way.
Mimetic isomorphism as a driving force of higher ed decisionmaking has produced some truly bizarre outcomes.
Friends in academia: how many of you are hearing from your admin that we need to infuse AI (or AI literacy) into the curriculum so your students "don't fall behind" students at other schools?
Extra points for including your institution type.
Extra points for including your institution type.
August 18, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Mimetic isomorphism as a driving force of higher ed decisionmaking has produced some truly bizarre outcomes.
The job of a nondegenerate symmetric bilinear form is to specify an isomorphism between a vector space and its dual.
Thank you for attending my TED Talk.
Thank you for attending my TED Talk.
July 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The job of a nondegenerate symmetric bilinear form is to specify an isomorphism between a vector space and its dual.
Thank you for attending my TED Talk.
Thank you for attending my TED Talk.