Exzerpt from the forthcoming book: “Quant-Theory – Materialism, Philosophy and Quantum Science” There is nothing artificial or fashionable about the introduction of quantum physics into quantum theory; rather, it is the interpretation of the aspect of a non-mathematical physics that […]
Quant-Theory – Materialism, Philosophy and Quantum Science
Exzerpt from the forthcoming book: “Quant-Theory – Materialism, Philosophy and Quantum Science” Let us now take a closer look at the question of indeterminism in quantum theory. In his book Theory of the Object, Thomas Nail assumes that matter can
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Exzerpt from the forthcoming book: “Quant-Theory – Materialism, Philosophy and Quantum Science” The first reaction of the inventors of quantum physics to the strange results that emerged from their equations (timelessness and spacelessness in the reference universe, non-locality of particles,
Quant-Theory – Materialism, Philosophy and Quantum Science
Interpretations of Lucretius’ text varied widely, but in 1841 a young German philosopher named Karl Marx wrote his doctoral thesis on Greek atomism, using Lucretius’ poem as his primary text. Marx’s interpretation of Lucretius was highly heterodox in that it
Matter and Motion: A Brief History of Kinetic Materialism
At first there was no specific mention of Ascrobius, but only a kind of twilight talk — dim and pervasive murmurs that persistently revolved around the graveyard outside of town, often touching upon more general topics of a morbid character,
Thomas Ligotti: Speculations in Black
… My version of materialism is “indeterminate materialism,” meaning that matter is indeterminate, just as the quote you read, and something indeterminate does not have an essence, so movement preceeds the essence for sure. Harman would say that I am
Interview with Thomas Nail in Mobility Humanities
Most people are accustomed to treating the earth as a relatively stable place that they live on and move on. As a result, many dominant human groups have thought of themselves as actors on the stage of the Earth. Today,
The following fragment comes from my book, Desonance: Desonating (with) Deleuze in which I outline Arkady Plotnitsky’s views on the distinctions between Einstein and Bohr on the basis of the question of foundation or ground with respect to Quantum Theory.
QUANTUM THEORY and THE QUESTION OF FOUNDATION
This essay shows how a new materialist theory of the Earth side-steps the distinction between the global and the planetary that structuresChakrabarty’s historiography. It advocates for a non-binary-generating ap-proach to our planetary situation grounded in the philosophy of motion. read
“Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest. On the contrary, it is a call, a plea, a provocation, a cry, a passionate yearning for an appreciation
Reading Karen Barad’s Interview in New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies
Marx’s reading of Greek atomism informs his uncompromisingly materialist stance, something we will inspect more closely further on in the chapter. At this point, suffice it to say that the contradiction that underpins Epicurean atomism, according to young Marx, is
Chapter on Dialectics, Materialism, Change: From Epicurus to Marx via Aristotle
In his essay “Marx with Planck”, Laruelle calls for a Marxist gnosis and consequently calls himself not a Marxist, but a Marxist oriented towards the future, who is in search of an aleatory teleology that has no connection with what
The quantum Marxism of laruelle