'PATAPHYSICS: Spiralization / Gidouille

"What is spiralization? The act of forming into a spiral.

Spiralizing is the art of turning vegetables into noodles, using a spiralizer. Inspiralized is what you and the dish become afterwards – a healthier and more inspired version of the original! Spiralized vegetable pasta or 'Inspiralized' pasta is paleo friendly, vegan and vegetarian friendly, low carb friendly, gluten friendly and health friendly. Spiralized pasta is not only nutritious and filling, it’s easy to make. Inspiralizing is for all ages, diet lifestyles and skill levels. The actual act of spiralizing takes less than one minute. No more waiting for the water to boil, no more mushy noodles. 

The spiral represents the journey of an idea. It can either spiral up or down depending on whether you give to it or take away from it. The spiral is infinite: Whether you take away and go down or whether you add more and go up. The fact that the spiral simply exists means that it’s eternal and infinite. The spiral represents our journey through life. We can choose to add to our lives or take away, that’s it nothing more. Because nothing more is needed, it’s spectacular and wonderful.

More on the spiral:

“positive” thoughts, or going up the spiral: Adding.

“negative” thoughts, or going down the spiral: Subtracting.

With ‘pataphysics the spiral, which is inscribed on Père Ubu’s belly and which became the symbol of the College of ‘Pataphysics from its inception in 1948. The spiral is brought up twice in Faustroll, each time in relation to progress; in other words, the motif of the spiral is understood as a movement outwards, which is potentially infinite in its expansion. While neither Jarry nor the College of ‘Pataphysics accept the commonplace understanding of progress as human betterment, and while progress here is imagined as a spiral rather than a straight line, it does figure the eventual extension of a pataphysical understanding in which everything, every value, has become equivalent, in which every phenomenon is viewed with equal interest and where nothing is true.

The logarithmic spiral is a spiral whose polar equation is given by r=ae^(btheta), (1) where r is the distance from the origin, theta is the angle from the x-axis, and a and b are arbitrary constants. The logarithmic spiral is also known as the growth spiral, equiangular spiral, and spira mirabilis. At the beginning of the magistrature of the third vice-curator, Opach, in 1965, Raymond Queneau introduced the device and motto of the Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli to the College as a sign of renewal, and they have since been incorporated into its insignia. In the late seventeenth century, Bernoulli developed the mathematical formula for what has been called the logarithmic, equiangular or sesquialteral spiral, whose proportions remain the same even as it expands in size. Bernoulli was referring to his spira mirabilis, as he called it, when he had a spiral and the Latin motto EADEM MUTATA RESURGO inscribed on his funerary plaque. It was this device and this motto – which can be translated as ‘I arise again the same though changed’ – that Queneau introduced to the College in 1965, and which it adopted (...) As a self-similar spiral whose proportions do not change even as it grows in size, the logarithmic spiral becomes the emblem of an institution that does not believe in qualitative change of the kind sought by communists or surrealists, and which sees itself as persisting unchanged in its essence throughout what Jarry called ‘ethernity’."

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