#Transversality
Waging battle against a transversality theorem for framed correspondences; coffee already internalized.
September 20, 2026 at 10:49 PM
“Random Acts of Insurrection: Transversality, Truth, and Event in Andor”
September 23, 2026 at 3:37 AM
It is transversality that establishes the profanations and is obsessed by the bumblebee, the transversal insect that causes the partitioned sexes to communicate. It is transversality that assures the transmission of a ray, from one universe to another as different as astronomical worlds.
May 5, 2026 at 8:30 PM
it is always within this dimension of transversality, in which unity and totality are established for themselves, without unifying or totalizing objects or subjects.
May 5, 2026 at 8:31 PM
It is transversality that permits us, in the train, not to unify the viewpoints of a landscape, but to bring them into communication according to the landscape's own dimension, in its own dimension, whereas they remain noncommunicating according to their own dimension.
May 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Maybe it has something to do with the way things are structured into generic/robust phenomena vs degenerate/perturbation-unstable phenomena. I'm thinking about eg intersection theory and how passing to cohomology is like assuming transversality of intersecting representatives
February 25, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Best things I read in 2024
- Adorno's Intro in Positivist Dispute in German Sociology
- 1st part of Negative Dialectics
- Debord's Society of the Spectacle
- Dauve's Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement
- Endnotes 2
- Guattari's Psychoanalysis & Transversality
December 13, 2024 at 5:56 AM
They're multivocal groups. The Prison Information Group, as organized by Foucault and Defert, was one such group: it embodied what Guattari called "transversality" as opposed to the hierarchical groups in which one person speaks on behalf of everyone else.
October 21, 2025 at 6:56 AM
It is transversality that constitutes the singular unity and totality of the Méséglise Way and of the Guermantes Way, without suppressing their difference or distance: "between these routes certain transversals were established".
May 5, 2026 at 8:30 PM
The new linguistic convention, the formal structure of the work, is therefore transversality, which passes through the entire sentence, which proceeds from one sentence to another in the entire book, and which even unites Proust's book to those he preferred, by Nerval, Chateaubriand, Balzac.
May 5, 2026 at 8:30 PM
"I think I'm an expressive musician. At the same time I believe in the… furtive nature of European improvisation, the idea of the fragment. Poetry. Transversality is a vital notion for me - you think I'm here but I'm over there."
September 12, 2026 at 10:41 AM
From the top of the ladder, suddenly this overview. What my book #shinoharistics left open is now kneaded through in a new and two-part essay. Spoiler: Architectural space lies not only in the eye of the beholder. #kazuoshinohara #篠原一男 #tanikawahouse, #transversality www.daidalos.org/en/articles/...
Follow the Ladder!
In his reflections on Kazuo Shinohara, Tibor Joanelly alongside Paul Cézanne also encounters the Third Person in the Japanese master
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March 23, 2024 at 7:09 AM
"I think I'm an expressive musician. At the same time I believe in the… furtive nature of European improvisation, the idea of the fragment. Poetry. Transversality is a vital notion for me - you think I'm here but I'm over there."
September 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Yeah I guess the motivation is that intersections can be badly behaved due to non-transversality and the naive intersection loses information that is kept in the derived picture. The ring of functions on a derived intersection becomes a whole (Koszul) commutative dga but you think of it as functions
March 29, 2026 at 5:58 PM
If you want to keep discussing, we should concentrate on one issue at a time. From my perspective, the initial part of our discussion, about gw transversality and how to detect it, would be most important. But what doesn't work for me is when after each argument you just run away on a really 1/
September 19, 2026 at 7:59 AM
No. Because of transversality, we need all three dimensions. A single 2D plane is not enough to describe what happens. But for a plane wave, at each point in space you can split space in the propagation direction (k vector) and the plane orthogonal to the k vector, and gw action (particles 1/
September 22, 2026 at 7:42 AM
“With the usual transversality condition…”

“Usual” for whom? Boundary condtion requires the present value of terminal assets go to zero. Rules out debt monetization as equilibrium & perpetual rollover.

Austerity appears as mathematical necessity rather than political choice
December 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Knowledge plays a role in the need to reduce the complexity and demand to control it - so how can we stay with complexity? Jef proposes transversality to tackle this problem of complexity IPS is creating by questioning binaries.
October 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
#ArXiv Annular liquid jets: exact constraint absorption and finite-time loss of transversality arxiv.org/abs/2609.05457
September 9, 2026 at 5:20 AM
BK: Taylor circularity ⇒ eigenvalues on edge of stability, π indeterminate along the stable manifold
FTPL: transversality in the bond market restores uniqueness via repricing to restore gov't solvency
Non-Ricardian: π pinned down by contemporary fiscal, Taylor coef doesn't determine stability
Regular-brain: Kevin Warsh's first press conference was confusing.

Galaxy-brain: That press conference was circular.

Universe-brain: That was indeterminate, it failed
Blanchard-Kahn conditions.

The confusion financial markets felt coming out of that press conference derives from economic logic.
June 23, 2026 at 4:29 PM
The 2026 Workshop on Optimisation, Metric Bounds, Approximation and Transversality (WOMBAT) will be held at the University of Melbourne from 25 to 27 November.

We welcome contributions on any topic related to mathematical optimisation.

Registration closes on 1 November. wombat.mocao.org
August 25, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Student exercise: Show why this comment demands a violation of transversality in monetary liabilities, government debt, and equity prices (hint: see the Geeks Note in my latest comment)

Bonus: find the 3 one-word sentences that summarize how such a violation would affect our investment discipline.
August 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Happy to share my contribution with Jef Huysmans to the IPS@20 special issue celebrating 20 years of the journal.
On Transversality: For a Reproblematization of the International in IPS academic.oup.com/ips/article-...
On Transversality: For a Reproblematization of the International in IPS
Abstract. In this article, we invest in the conceptual development of transversality to establish it as the key analytical tool for examining the internati
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May 29, 2026 at 9:40 PM