Maurits Cornelis Escher
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Sep 23, 2026
DavidHOST
That's interesting.
DavidHOST
That's like one of those Escher things where it's just sort of recursive.
DavidHOST
That they're unable to open.
DavidHOST
Carrie invites a now omnivorous John to dinner.
DavidHOST
That's interesting.
DavidHOST
That's like one of those Escher things where it's just sort of recursive.
DavidHOST
That they're unable to open.
DavidHOST
Carrie invites a now omnivorous John to dinner.
Jonathon PernisekHOST
Why does director-choreographer Susan Stroman's staging of The Number refuse to engage with that dimensionality? Everyone is firmly stuck to the stage when we can and should be leaning into the city's labyrinthian complexity, the M.C.
Jonathon PernisekHOST
Escher relativity of it all.
Jonathon PernisekHOST
we do get levels eventually.
Jonathon PernisekHOST
In fact, the moment Cheering for Me now ends, Beowulf Borat's scenic design is immediately allowed to go vertical and take a few people with it.
RupertHOST
[laughs]
LaszloHOST
[laughs] Did you get as far as, like, the, like, the Escher style ending? Like, there's a cool bit where he's, like, walking, it's got impossible angles and stairs everywhere.
BritHOST
No, I, I think I got t- past the, the, the junk- junkyard bit where she breaks back out and then she's back in the maze, and I thought, "I ca- no more.
BritHOST
No more."
Evan WilsonGUEST
It's working its way through the chambers all the way down to the front, which is one of the cool things about having a great relationship with B&T.
Evan WilsonGUEST
Their level of just like, "Oh my God, that's an M.C., M.C. Escher staircase of a flow." Like, how did you even conceptually come up with that? And so we are really kind of looking at the limitations of when you're designing something, you're usually looking at a 2D plane on the CAD, and you're kind of like, "All right, it'll go this way, and it'll kind of...
Evan WilsonGUEST
maybe it'll go around." Well, how do we go back and forth this way in the same time, and then back and forth this way, back and...
Evan WilsonGUEST
So how do we make that flow path as long as possible to maximize the entire distance of the can? And, uh, the MFMD, uh, Russ Oliver over there with, uh, Strategic Sciences.
Cal NewportGUEST
And it just personifies rationalism, which is you just, you sit there thinking through thought experiments, and you get...
Cal NewportGUEST
You twist on twist on twist until you're lost in your own self-referential Escher sketch of like a logical construction.
Cal NewportGUEST
That's what he was talking about-
Adam BeckerHOST
Oh, God
Red SzellHOST
Yeah, there's a real sense of disorientation, which actually has the unfortunate result of causing a young film student to fall to her death in this installation, which means it's immediately cancelled.
Red SzellHOST
And we get this real sense of it being like an Escher painting.
Melissa AlbertGUEST
Yes, it's like a beautiful nightmare that people are drawn to.
Melissa AlbertGUEST
And of course, that element of danger and infamy is going to make people angry and sicken, but it's also going to make people interested and drawn, which again is like that tension of the book, that sort of push and pull that art can have and that people can have when they sacrifice some of their humanity to make art.
Evan KellyHOST
When you got to the toy corporation, it was enormous.
Evan KellyHOST
Fully fifth dimensional in that space was folding in on itself and doing bonkers Escher nonsense.
Evan KellyHOST
This is like a floating island.
Evan KellyHOST
It is extraordinarily dense but small.
Yascha MounkHOST
That's writing.yashamong.com. you Jerry Kaplan, welcome to the podcast.
Yascha MounkHOST
Thank you, Escher.
Yascha MounkHOST
It's a pleasure to be here.
Yascha MounkHOST
I'm a really big fan of yours.
Alex MarinelloHOST
we talking like GTA
Tom CaswellHOST
4 big? Well, it's hard to tell because, again, it's all folded in on itself, right? It's like MC Escher or Inception, right? Like buildings and stuff like go up and roads and everything.
Tom CaswellHOST
It's not a huge open world.
Tom CaswellHOST
but it is dense with things to do and hidden things to find.
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