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Buy Baz's book, Trauma in 21st-Century Time Travel Cinema
Being (a)Part: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/trauma-in-21stcentury-time-travel-cinema-9781978768734/

<blockquote>Kwasu D. Tembo unites approaches from disciplines as wide-ranging as physics, mathematics, cinema, philosophy, and media theory to pose critical questions concerning time, change, and (un)becoming in contemporary time-travel cinema.

In his analyses of 21st-century cinematic time-travel narratives, Tembo situates human life in time as a palimpsest, with time acting as scriptor and stylus. A time machine, then, functions as a fantasy that allows for this pace to be slowed or accelerated so as to appear entirely suspended, with the potentials of the “Now” (re)opened to the traveler.

As the manipulation of time lends the traveler increased agency-and perhaps the conditions to see themselves more clearly amid a claustrophobic sea of information and content-Tembo contends that we must carefully consider the psycho-emotional affectivity of both the motivations and the potentially traumatic consequences of such a jarring shift in perspective. The results lend critical insight into human understandings of how we experience time and, ultimately, what these understandings permit and disallow in terms of how (it is) to be in time.</blockquote>

Phasmid Press: https://phasmidpress.org/ "]]></description>
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While most of the planet warms, a patch of ocean south of Greenland—often called the “cold blob” or “North Atlantic warming hole”—is not warming. In fact, depending on which years you look at, it has actually cooled since industrialization. In this video we investigate this odd phenomenon which has implications for the future of our climate and the stability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The AMOC is a system of currents that transports heat from the tropics to the North Atlantic, regulating weather patterns across Northwestern Europe and beyond. However, recent evidence suggests this vital system may be weakening. Could human-induced climate change, specifically the warming of the ocean and the influx of freshwater from melting ice, be pushing this circulation toward a tipping point? We take a journey through centuries of oceanographic discovery to understand the overturning circulation, the urgency of research on the AMOC, and what the potential collapse of this system could mean for the stable world we built our civilizations on.

Chapters:
0:00 cold blob
1:01 side quest to turkey
3:00 a bucket meets the deep
5:10 deutsche atlantik expedition
6:31 the neutrally buoyant float
7:54 woa just look at it
9:24 what are we doing to it?
11:09 ghost of climates past
14:40 cells in shells
17:07 what if it collapses?
18:16 what the data shows so far
21:38 climate models are flawed
23:27 deep history
24:33 thanks!"]]></description>
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    <title>I was wrong about being wrong about AI - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-01T19:16:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" https://x.com/atmoio/status/2061219390406685019

<blockquote>I think I’ve found a way out of the philosophical hellhole I’ve found myself in.

The argument I was entertaining in this video is that maybe intelligence is a function humans run, which is a sort of approximation on reality. And maybe AI can also find a similar, or even better, approximation.

Autopoiesis could provide an interesting counterview.  

In a sense, humans are not hosts that run the intelligence algorithm. They are the intelligence algorithm.

And the solution was found through the most hardcore search process in the known universe. Life runs natively on chemistry and physics and has spent 4 billion years building up to us, starting with simple autopoietic systems and compounding endlessly.

The alternative we’ve built today, AI, is a third-person model of that intelligence. It’s “what do these intelligences tend to say?” and hoping you can reverse engineer their world from their speech. It’s not the real thing, and it has no short-term way of becoming even close to the real thing.

The part I was missing was basically: the reason it can’t be the real thing is not because humans do something extradimensional or immaterial that is definitionally out of reach for AIs. It’s that if you want to build human intelligence, you’ll need to repeat the work done through billions of years and build the same loops from the bottom up.

I’m not necessarily a carbon maximalist. But I suspect the process that found intelligence was pretty thorough. We’re trying now to do something similar in the silicon virtualized realm. And I have no doubt that building on this substrate over the next billion years will yield something interesting. I’m just not so sure why we think it will result in the same thing.

Disclaimer: I’m not a philosopher or physicist. Just trying to find useful mental models to wade through reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis </blockquote>]

[references: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7RDU-piOVA ]]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2026-05-29T09:05:00+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Carlo Rovelli: ‘Time Is an Illusion’ | Quanta Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2026-05-29T08:43:32+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Carlo Rovelli discusses his research on time and his view that it should not appear in the quantum theory of gravity."

[also here:
"Is Time Real? The Physics Behind the Illusion of Time"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuLaUYQFIwg
https://vimeo.com/1135354054

"What if time isn't fundamental at all? Physicist Carlo Rovelli reveals how modern physics, from relativity to quantum gravity, has gradually erased time from its equations. In its place, we find change, entropy, and the deep connection between the universe's evolution and our own perception of its flow. Featuring Rovelli's thermal time hypothesis, this video explores how our sense of past and future arises from the physics of heat."]

[See also, related article:

"Carlo Rovelli’s Radical Perspective on Reality
The theoretical physicist and best-selling author finds inspiration in politics and philosophy for rethinking space and time."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/carlo-rovellis-radical-perspective-on-reality-20251029/ ]]]></description>
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    <title>Global Thinkers: On the Equality of All Things | Carlo Rovelli - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["On May 14, 2026, the Berggruen Global Thinkers Series presented the lecture “On the Equality of All Things” held at Peking University’s Centennial Memorial Hall. The lecture was delivered by the renowned theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, who drew from his upcoming book under the same name (On the Equality of All Things, 齊物論) following the famed Zhuangzi chapter. The Berggruen Center’s Academic Advisory Council Co-Chair Roger Ames hosted the event. 

Rovelli contends that contemporary physics—particularly quantum mechanics and general relativity—compels us to undertake a profound revision of our understanding of reality, one with far-reaching philosophical implications. These theories encourage a view of the world as constituted by processes and relations, rather than by entities possessing independent existence; they challenge metaphysical dichotomies such as subject/object, matter/spirit, and living/non-living; and they invite us to abandon the notion of any ultimate or privileged foundation. In this respect, Eastern classical thinkers such as Nagarjuna and Zhuangzi, together with strands of Western philosophy, offer conceptual frameworks that resonate with and help illuminate these recent developments in our understanding of the world."]]></description>
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...

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The Matter With Things by Iain McGilchrist https://amzn.to/4taEvgt

Sources:

Main essay: https://unherd.com/2026/05/is-ai-the-next-phase-of-evolution/ (note however that they edited out the part with his restless foot and him falling in love, archive here: https://archive.ph/HKNEz )

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/03/can-ai-solve-science/

https://thebeautifultruth.org/life/psychology/iain-mcgilchrist-brains-hemispheres/

https://www.markvernon.com/nice-and-easy-does-it-thoughts-on-zenos-paradoxes "]]></description>
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[via:
https://ablerism.micro.blog/2026/04/29/i-had-fun-speaking-on.html

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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The theoretical physicist and best-selling author finds inspiration in politics and philosophy for rethinking space and time."

[See also:

"Carlo Rovelli: ‘Time Is an Illusion’
Carlo Rovelli discusses his research on time and his view that it should not appear in the quantum theory of gravity."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/videos/carlo-rovelli-time-is-an-illusion/

or

"Is Time Real? The Physics Behind the Illusion of Time"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuLaUYQFIwg
https://vimeo.com/1135354054

"What if time isn't fundamental at all? Physicist Carlo Rovelli reveals how modern physics, from relativity to quantum gravity, has gradually erased time from its equations. In its place, we find change, entropy, and the deep connection between the universe's evolution and our own perception of its flow. Featuring Rovelli's thermal time hypothesis, this video explores how our sense of past and future arises from the physics of heat."]]]></description>
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    <title>The AI Industry Is Lying To You</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-24T20:49:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Tech Industry Has Poisoned Itself With The Lies of AI

In the end, everything about AI is built on lies. 

Hundreds of gigawatts of data centers in development equate to 5GW of actual data centers in construction. 

Hundreds of billions of dollars of GPU sales are mostly sitting waiting for somewhere to go.

Anthropic’s constant flow of “annualized” revenues ended up equating to literally $5 billion in revenue in four years, on $25 billion or more in salaries and compute.

Despite all of those data centers supposedly being built, nobody appears to be making a profit on renting out AI compute.

AI’s supposed ability to “write all code” really means that every major software company is filling their codebases with slop while massively increasing their operating expenses. Software engineers aren’t being replaced — they’re being laid off because the software that’s meant to replace them is too expensive, while in practice not replacing anybody at all.

Looking even an inch beneath the surface of this industry makes it blatantly obvious that we’re witnessing one of the greatest corporate failures in history. The smug, condescending army of AI boosters exists to make you look away from the harsh truth — AI makes very little revenue, lacks tangible productivity benefits, and seems to, at scale, actively harm the productivity and efficacy of the workers that are being forced to use it.

Every executive forcing their workers to use AI is a ghoul and a dullard, one that doesn’t understand what actual work looks like, likely because they’re a lazy, self-involved prick. 

Every person I talk to at a big tech firm is depressed, nagged endlessly to “get on board with AI,” to ship more, to do more, all without any real definition of what “more” means or what it contributes to the greater whole, all while constantly worrying about being laid off thanks to the truly noxious cultures that are growing around these services.

AI is actively poisonous to the future of the tech industry. It’s expensive, unproductive, actively damaging to the learning and efficacy of its users, depriving them of the opportunities to learn and grow, stunting them to the point that they know less and do less because all they do is prompt. Those that celebrate it are ignorant or craven, captured or crooked, or desperate to be the person to herald the next era, even if that era sucks, even if that era is inherently illogical, even if that era is fucking impossible when you think about it for more than two seconds.

And in the end, AI is a test of your introspection. Can you tell when you truly understand something? Can you tell why you believe in something, other than that somebody told you you should, or made you feel bad for believing otherwise? Do you actually want to know stuff, or just have the ability to call up information when necessary? 

How much joy do you get out of becoming a better person?If you can’t answer that question with certainty, maybe you should just use an LLM, as you don’t really give a shit about anything.

And in the end, you’re exactly the mark built for an AI industry that can’t sell itself without spinning lies about what it can (or theoretically could) do."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The way most people think about time is wrong. The notion that we share a ‘common time’ moving in a single direction is a useful illusion but, as physicists have understood since the discoveries of Albert Einstein, it doesn’t comport with our understanding of the Universe. However, as the Italian theoretical physicist and writer Carlo Rovelli argues in this short documentary from Quanta Magazine, this doesn’t mean we should abandon the concept of time altogether. Instead, we should recognise that ‘many possible times’ coexist. Rovelli further proposes that the best way to understand how time actually works is through the lens of entropy and, by extension, heat. This idea lies at the centre of his ‘thermal time hypothesis’, which he developed alongside the French mathematician Alain Connes. Rovelli also discusses the humbling perspective that arises from the distinction between how we perceive the world and the deeper reality that underlies it."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["En Revelados abrimos una conversación imperdible con Cecilia Vicuña, artista visual, poeta, cineasta y activista, considerada una de las voces más auténticas y polifacéticas de la poesía contemporánea.

No te pierdas esta conversación emocionante, llena de arte, junto a Sofía Tupper."]]></description>
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    <title>Dangerous Pseudoscience: - Peter Joseph: Substack</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Why Market Economics Is Not Economics"

...

"Of all the distorted realities produced by the irrational thought and behavior that now define so-called “modern” culture, nothing is more disturbing than the realization that our dominant mode of survival—economic survival—is rooted in what may be the most dangerous pseudoscience ever created: markets.

The delirium is astonishing. The disorder is obvious. And frankly, it is embarrassing. One can only hope that if extraterrestrial observers exist, they keep their distance—not out of fear, but out of disbelief at how absurd, self-destructive, and fragile humanity’s economic operating system has become.

We have organized the provisioning of life itself around a framework that dismisses the physical conditions of survival, ignores ecological limits, sidelines basic natural science, and replaces common-sense resource management with a layered mess of abstractions.

At its root, this system concerns itself with one thing and one thing only: the movement of money and the dynamics of exchange. That is the core concern. Nothing else is structurally prioritized. To call what is, in essence, an abstracted accounting ideology “economics” is not only misleading—it is intellectually indefensible.

Market economics does not begin with the Earth. It does not begin with materials, energy, design constraints, waste, or long-term viability. It begins with prices—symbols detached from physical reality—and then attempts to retrofit the world to justify them. In doing so, it systematically excludes the very variables that actually determine whether a society can survive.

Do this:

Find a group of elementary school children—children who have not yet been polluted by market-rooted economic theory, business-school mythology, or the belligerent sloganeering in favor of “capitalism”—and ask them a few basic questions:

Where do resources come from?
What happens when they run out?
How should we use them so everyone has enough?
What should we do with waste?
Should we design things to last, or to be thrown away?
Etc.

You will find, almost without exception, that these children respond with answers rooted in intuition, balance, and physical reality. They understand instinctively that resources come from the Earth, that they are finite, that they serve particular purposes, and that waste is a problem. They recognize that cooperation and efficiency matter. They grasp—without formal training—that using things wisely, with stewardship and scientific awareness, is preferable to using more things for the sake of “growth.” They intuitively understand that destroying the conditions of survival itself makes no sense.

In other words, they reason economically in a way that is more grounded, more rational, and more aligned with reality than many PhD-credentialed market economists.

The unspoken, taboo fact is this: true economics deals with ecology, design, recycling, energy systems, technical labor organization, and the material constraints of the physical world. It is a discipline rooted in engineering logic and systems thinking. It asks how finite resources can be intelligently allocated to meet human needs over time without undermining the ecological foundations that make production possible in the first place.

What we instead call “economics” today—market economics—is a pseudoscience devoted almost entirely to abstractions layered upon abstractions, concerned not with real provisioning, but with the movement of money inside artificial market structures.

***

What Economics Actually Means

The word economy comes from the Greek oikonomia, meaning the management of the household. This is not a metaphor; it is a functional definition. A household has limited resources, limited labor capacity, and ongoing needs. Good management means balancing inputs and outputs, minimizing waste, and ensuring sustainability over time.

No rational household incentivizes its members to consume endlessly simply to justify continued production. No household measures success by how fast money circulates between family members. No household celebrates growth for its own sake while ignoring depletion, exhaustion, or collapse.

And yet this is precisely what modern market economics celebrates at the societal scale.

True economics must grapple with the actual physical realities of production. It must ask where materials come from, how they are transformed, what energy inputs are required, what waste is generated, and what long-term consequences result from these processes. It must deal with ecology, because all production occurs within ecological systems. That is the foundation of any honest economic calculation. It must deal with design, because efficiency, durability, and reuse matter far more than sales volume. And it must deal with labor, because human effort is finite—and increasingly replaceable through automation.

In other words, economics is inseparable from engineering and systems science. It can only exist as a legitimate discipline when grounded in the properties of the real, material world, accounting for systemic interactions, feedback effects, and long-term outcomes rather than short-term monetary flows.

Now pick up any standard economics textbook assigned to college students.

Do you see a section on the natural regeneration rates of rainforests in the context of timber extraction? Do you see a systems-level analysis of how removing trees alters soil chemistry, water cycles, regional climate stability, and species interdependence? Do you see an examination of how biodiversity loss feeds back into human food security, disease vulnerability, or long-term survival?

No—you don’t.

And the reason is simple: if you did, you would be reading a genuine work of economics.

Instead, what you will find in Economics 101 is noise—layered abstractions about supply and demand curves, imaginary equilibria, rational actors, price signals, and efficiency myths, all detached from physical reality. You will read equations that never mention energy, models that ignore waste, and graphs that pretend ecosystems are optional variables. You will be taught to believe that prices somehow encode all relevant information, even as the real world degrades beneath the math.

This is not the study of an economy. It is the study of market behavior under artificial constraints, presented as universal truth. And the more one internalizes this abstraction, the less capable one becomes of understanding how real economies actually function—or fail.

That is why market economics can be taught for decades while remaining blind to collapse. It does not look at the world. It looks at its own symbols—and calls that science.

No.

***

The Fatal Narrowing of the Discipline

It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when everything became so absurd, but somewhere along the way economics underwent a profound intellectual narrowing. Political economy—the study of production, distribution, and social organization—was gradually replaced by market theory, which redefined the economy as nothing more than a set of price-mediated exchanges between abstract actors.

This narrowing hid behind one of the most delusional attributes ever assigned to markets: “freedom.”

Ah yes—freedom. Freedom from material limits. Freedom from ecological accountability. Freedom from understanding how the real world actually works.

In this reframing, biophysical limits were excluded from economic calculation except in the abstracted form of “scarcity,” embedded within the infamous supply-and-demand equation. In practice, this equation operates blindly. “Supply” is reduced to what exists after production, regardless of ecological cost. “Demand” is reduced to purchasing power rather than actual human need.

Nearly one billion people today suffer from inadequate nutrition, yet they exert no influence on demand curves because they lack money. Their needs are economically invisible. This alone exposes the moral and analytical bankruptcy of the framework.

Likewise, energy came to be treated as an external input rather than a core constraint. Environmental damage was labeled an “externality”—a term that itself reveals the problem. Design quality, durability, and waste reduction became irrelevant so long as goods could be sold. Human needs were flattened into “preferences.” Social stability was reduced to employment statistics.

The market itself was elevated to a near-mystical status, portrayed as a self-correcting, information-processing entity capable of optimizing outcomes through price signals alone. This belief persists despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Prices do not reflect ecological cost. They do not account for long-term damage. They do not signal systemic risk. They do not optimize for human well-being. They reflect only what can be paid for under existing power structures.
Dangerous Pseudoscience

A science must meet certain criteria. It must be empirically grounded. Its assumptions must be testable. Its models must be falsifiable. Its predictions must meaningfully correspond to reality. Market economics fails on all counts.

Its foundational assumptions—rational actors, efficient markets, equilibrium tendencies—are demonstrably false, yet they persist because the models built upon them are internally consistent. This is the hallmark of pseudoscience: coherence within a closed system, divorced from empirical reality.

When market models fail to predict crises, recessions, environmental collapse, or inequality, the failure is never attributed to the model itself. Instead, blame is shifted to “exogenous shocks,” poor policy, or insufficient market freedom. The theory is never wrong; reality simply failed to cooperate.

Worse still, market economics routinely treats its own abstractions as natural laws. Supply-and-demand curves are presented as immutable features of human behavior rather than artifacts of a specific institutional framework. This conflation of constructed systems with natural phenomena is profoundly unscientific.

What market economics actually studies is not the economy, but the behavior of money within a particular rule set. That may be useful for traders, investors, and financiers—but it tells us almost nothing about how to intelligently organize production in a finite world.

***

The Cult of Growth

As I have talked about before at length, perhaps the most dangerous confusion in modern thought is the equation of money with economic health. Gross Domestic Product, for instance, measures the total monetary value of transactions within a country. It does not distinguish between constructive and destructive activity. A forest fire that destroys homes and infrastructure, followed by reconstruction, increases GDP. A medical crisis caused by pollution increases GDP. Planned obsolescence increases GDP.

By this logic, failure is success so long as it generates spending.

Money moving faster is treated as prosperity. But money is not food. It is not housing. It is not clean water or breathable air. It is an accounting system—a symbolic medium of exchange that tells us nothing about whether real human needs are being met efficiently or sustainably.

An economy can be growing financially while collapsing materially. Market economics has no mechanism to meaningfully address this contradiction because it does not measure what matters.

Market systems are structurally addicted to growth. This is not a cultural preference; it is a mathematical necessity. Debt-based money creation, profit requirements, and employment dependence all demand continuous expansion. Without growth, the system contracts—and contraction is treated as failure regardless of whether material needs are already met. This growth imperative directly contradicts ecological reality.

No physical system grows indefinitely. Every ecosystem operates within limits, seeking dynamic balance rather than endless expansion. Yet market ideology treats balance as stagnation and sustainability as inefficiency.

At the household level, this logic would be considered insane. No one believes a successful family is one that doubles its consumption every year, depletes its resources, and produces endless waste simply to keep everyone “employed.”

But at the macro level, this insanity is normalized, institutionalized, and defended by economists who rarely confront its ecological impossibility.

In systems-science terms, this is a conflict of recursion. The rules governing the macro system directly violate the constraints that apply at every lower level of organization. The household, the community, the ecosystem—all require balance, feedback, and restraint to remain viable. Yet the larger economic system is designed to override those same constraints, demanding perpetual expansion regardless of material limits.

A system that cannot apply its own survival logic across scales is not adaptive—it is pathological. When the macro layer forces behavior that would destroy the micro layers, collapse is not an accident; it is the expected outcome. Growth, under such conditions, is not a sign of health, but of systemic instability—a positive feedback loop accelerating toward failure.

What markets call “success” is, in ecological terms, overshoot. And overshoot does not end in equilibrium. It ends in correction.

***

Expertise Without Substance

Because market economics is focused almost entirely on financial abstraction, its practitioners are uniquely unqualified to solve real-world problems.

Climate change? The response is carbon markets and pricing mechanisms that commodify destruction rather than eliminate it. Automation and labor displacement? Create new jobs, regardless of whether they are necessary or meaningful. Resource depletion? Raise prices and let scarcity “signal” adjustments after damage is done.

Every problem is filtered through the same lens: how can this be monetized?

True expertise in economics would require understanding material flows, energy constraints, design optimization, systems feedback, and ecological thresholds. It would require collaboration with engineers, ecologists, and systems scientists. Market economists are rarely trained in any of these domains.

They may be experts in “markets”—but not in economies.

***

Economics as Engineering

If we strip away ideology and return to first principles, economics becomes something far more practical—and far more honest.

The real questions are simple:

What do people need to live well?
What resources are available?
What are the most efficient ways to transform those resources into usable goods and services?
What are the ecological costs of those processes?
How can waste be minimized or eliminated?
How can labor be reduced through intelligent design and automation?

These are engineering questions. They do not require price signals. They require data, design, feedback, and coordination. They require systems that optimize for outcomes rather than profits.

An economy designed this way would prioritize durability over sales, access over ownership, and balance over growth. It would treat technology as a means of reducing labor rather than creating artificial employment. It would measure success by quality of life and ecological stability, not by transaction volume.

***

Why the Illusion Persists

Market economics persists not because it works, but because it legitimizes existing power structures. It provides intellectual cover for inequality, environmental destruction, and inefficiency by framing them as unavoidable outcomes of “natural” market forces. Abstract models protect real interests. They deflect responsibility. They allow systemic failure to be treated as unfortunate rather than designed.

In truth, the power system markets create is arguably even worse than the so called “command” economies of the former USSR and beyond by which markets are supposed to be antithetical. Markets produce rigid, constant power hierarchies.

Real economics—grounded in physical reality—would demand systemic change. It would force us to confront the irrationality of profit-driven production, the redundancy of much labor, and the incompatibility of endless growth with a finite planet. It would also end the power structure that is not only tyrannical against human society itself, but tyrannical against the entire ecosystem by which we survived as a species.

That is why it is resisted. The winners of the market game are the ones in power and they are almost invariably sociopathic, as an aside.

***

Naming the Problem

So, again: Market economics is not economics. It is a belief system about money movement masquerading as science. It manages symbols instead of systems. It debates prices while ignoring physics. It treats abstraction as reality and reality as an externality.

Until we reclaim the meaning of economics, we will continue to mismanage the very foundations of human survival to our demise.

If your “economics” cannot explain ecology, waste, energy, and design efficiency, it is not a science.

It is a power-rooted ideology and religion.

And the longer we pretend otherwise, the higher the cost will be. I encourage people to learn about Integral in this regard as we have to start somewhere by building a method for true economic calculation and organization."]]></description>
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    <title>The Truth Physics Can No Longer Ignore - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-25T17:13:08+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries."

[archived:
https://archive.ph/rpA5V 

"On October 8, 2024, the field of physics was plunged into controversy. That day, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for discoveries not involving black holes, cosmology, or strange new subatomic particles, but about AI. How could the discipline’s highest award go to research about machines designed to mimic human brains? Where was the physics in that?

For most of the 20th century, physicists largely ignored living systems. They understood living things as machines, albeit ones made of gooey parts. A subfield called biophysics uncovered specific physical mechanisms behind those molecular machines. Organisms as a whole, however, were not a major concern.

But today, many of my colleagues in physics no longer agree with such dismissals. Instead, we have come to believe that a mystery is unfolding in every microbe, animal, and human—one that challenges basic assumptions physicists have held for centuries, and could answer essential questions about AI. It may even help redefine the field for the next generation.

The central hubris of physics has long been the idea that it is the most “fundamental” of all sciences. Physics students learn about the basic stuff of reality—space and time, energy and matter—and are told that all other scientific disciplines must reduce back down to the fundamental particles and laws that physics has generated. This philosophy, called “reductionism,” worked pretty well from Newton’s laws through much of the 20th century as physicists discovered electrons, quarks, the theory of relativity, and so on. But over the past few decades, progress in the most reductionist branches of physics has slowed. For example, long-promised “theories of everything,” such as string theory, have not borne significant fruit.

There are, however, ways other than reductionism to think about what’s fundamental in the universe. Beginning in the 1980s, physicists (along with researchers in other fields) began developing new mathematical tools to study what’s called “complexity”—systems in which the whole is far more than the sum of its parts. The end goal of reductionism was to explain everything in the universe as the result of particles and their interactions. Complexity, by contrast, recognizes that once lots of particles come together to produce macroscopic things—such as organisms—knowing everything about particles isn’t enough to understand reality. An early pioneer of this approach was the physicist Philip W. Anderson, who succinctly framed the nascent anti-reductionist perspective with the phrase “More is different.” Complex-systems science has grown rapidly in the 21st century, and researchers in the field won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2021.

From a physicist’s perspective, no complex system is weirder or more challenging than life. For one thing, the organization of living matter defies physicists’ usual expectations about the universe. Your body is made of matter, just like everything else. But the atoms you’re built from today won’t be the atoms you’re built from in a year. That means you and every other living thing aren’t an inert object, like a rock, but a dynamic pattern playing out over time. The real challenge for physics, however, is that the patterns that make up life are self-organized. Living systems both create and maintain themselves in a strange kind of loop that no existing machine can replicate. Think about the cell membrane, which enables a cell to stay alive by letting some chemicals in while keeping others out. The cell creates and continually maintains the membrane, but the membrane is also itself a process that makes the cell.

That chicken-and-egg problem challenges the dream of the old physics: that once the universe’s fundamental particles were cataloged, everything else could be explicitly described and predicted. Give me a young star, and I can use the reductionist laws of physics to predict that star’s future: It will live a million years rather than a billion years; it will die as a black hole rather than as a white dwarf. But the components of a living organism yield something new and unexpected, a phenomenon called “emergence.” Give me a simple cell from the early days of Earth’s history, and I could never predict that some 4 billion years later it would evolve into a giant rabbit that can punch you in the face. Kangaroos—like humans—are an unpredictable, emergent consequence of life’s evolution.

The fundamental laws that govern matter and energy cannot predict another fundamental property of life: It is the only system in the universe that uses information for its own purposes. Plants grow toward light, microbes swim toward rich food sources, animals hide from predators, humans send giant metal contraptions into outer space. Although one can, say, program a robot to search for a wall plug when its battery gets low, a living thing (a human programmer, for example) must hard-code that need into the machine. Life, by contrast, is both agential and autonomous. From microbes to crabs to people, all living things have their own itches to scratch.

To truly understand living systems as self-organized, autonomous agents, physicists need to abandon their “just the particles, ma’am” mentality. One of physicists’ great talents—starting with the laws of simple parts (such as atoms) and working up to a complex whole—cannot fully account for cells, animals, or people. Luckily, the field has another elemental skill that can help: a particular way of asking questions and building models to make predictions. Physicists have always been good at capturing the essential aspects of a system and casting those essentials in the language of mathematics. How much useful energy flows through a cell membrane? Which arrangement of neurons maximizes the information in a flatworm’s nervous system? Now those skills must be brought to bear on an age-old question that is only just getting its proper due: What is life?

Using these skills, physicists—working together with representatives of all the other disciplines that make up complexity science—may crack open the question of how life formed on Earth billions of years ago and how it might have formed on the distant alien worlds we can now explore with cutting-edge telescopes. Just as important, understanding why life, as an organized system, is different at a fundamental level from all the other stuff in the universe may help astronomers design new strategies for finding it in places bearing little resemblance to Earth. Analyzing life—no matter how alien—as a self-organizing information-driven system may provide the key to detecting biosignatures on planets hundreds of light-years away.

Closer to home, studying the nature of life is likely essential to fully understanding intelligence—and building artificial versions. Throughout the current AI boom, researchers and philosophers have debated whether and when large language models might achieve general intelligence or even become conscious—or whether, in fact, some already have. The only way to properly assess such claims is to study, by any means possible, the sole agreed-upon source of general intelligence: life. Bringing the new physics of life to problems of AI may not only help researchers predict what software engineers can build; it may also reveal the limits of trying to capture life’s essential character in silicon.

As the 21st century continues to unfold, my fellow physicists will undoubtedly continue to advance the study of black holes, quantum mechanics, and other traditional domains. The study of life, however, will take us to places we’ve never imagined, opening a path for the future of our field that, for once, unfolds on a level playing field with biologists, ecologists, neuroscientists, and sociologists. At its best, the pursuit of fundamental answers about the nature of living things might lead physicists not only to new scientific marvels, but also to an entirely new way of doing science."]]]></description>
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Dismantling the Master’s Clock On Race, Space, and Time 
By Rasheedah Phillips 
Published by AK Press 

Purchase the book at this link:
https://citylights.com/dismantling-the-masters-clock-on-race

A radical new treatise on time, quantum physics, and racial justice from world-renowned artist and advocate Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism.

Why do some processes—like aging, birth, and car crashes—occur in only one direction in time, when by the fundamental symmetry of the universe, we should experience time both forward and backward? Our dominant perception of time owes more to Western history and social order than to a fact of nature, argues writer Rasheedah Phillips, delving into Black and Afrodiasporic conceptions of time, where the past, present, and future interact in more numerous constellations.

Phillips unfolds the history of time and its legacy of racial oppression, from colonial exploration and the plantation system to the establishment of Daylight Savings. Yet Black communities have long subverted space-time through such tools of resistance as Juneteenth, tenant organizing, ritual, and time travel. What could Black liberation look like if the past were as changeable as the future?

Drawing on philosophy, archival research, quantum physics, and Phillips’s own art practice and work on housing policy, Dismantling the Master’s Clock expands the horizons of what can be imagined and, ultimately, achieved.

Rasheedah Phillips is a queer housing advocate, lawyer, parent, and interdisciplinary artist working through a Black futurist lens. Phillips is the founder of the AfroFuturist Affair, founding member of the Metropolarity Queer Speculative Fiction Collective, and co-creator of the art duo Black Quantum Futurism. Phillips’ work has been featured in the New York Times, The Wire, New York Magazine, Boston Review, Hyperallergic, and e-flux.

Fred Moten studies the social practice of poetry/criticism. He lives in New York and teaches at New York University. His most recent work, in collaboration with Brandon López and Gerald Cleaver, is the blacksmiths, the flowers (Reading Group Records, 2024).

Praise for Dismantling the Master’s Clock:

“The straightening and whitening of time are as viciously colonial, as brutally geocidal and genocidal, as the settling and owning of space. Rasheedah Phillips brilliantly and rigorously alerts us to this condition while also showing us how we walk with and wait on one another in rhythm. Dismantling the Master’s Clock is a queer, black, reconstructive tour de force.” —Fred Moten, co-author of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study

“This book is a fruitful offering to a world with ever-increasing anxiety about the future. With incredible precision, the text delivers an invitation to reconstruct all that we accept in relation to time and existence. The brilliant Rasheedah Phillips untangles and explores history, memory, and quantum perspectives like so few others can.” —Kimberly Drew, author of Black Futures

“I often speak to friends about a virtual workshop I attended guided by a Black woman on how to time travel. How I sat in awe experiencing a life-altering experimentation with time. I am utterly blown away by the work of Rasheedah Phillips and Black Quantum Futurism. Phillips’ … bold declarations about time, Blackness, and the power of space feels like a special, underground portal silently healing us and shifting culture. Dismantling the Master’s Clock is our path to deep connection and power. This is revolutionary work.” —Tricia Hersey, author of Rest Is Resistance: Free Yourself from Grind Culture and Reframe Your Life

“Whether the device in hand is a quantum time capsule, a newly crafted time zone protocol, or instruments for bending the arrow of time, the praxis is one of grounded theory, laser-focused on changing the material conditions of possibility for reconfiguring geographies, architectures, calendars, and constellations … Phillips invites us into a real-world laboratory of situated analysis and experimentation that takes seriously the material nature of imaginings.” —Karen Barad, author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning

“In this well-researched and expansive text, Rasheedah Phillips offers a detailed history of how standardized colonial time constricts Black life and decolonial freedom … The time you will spend with this book will not drag you from point A to point B; it will expand into the field of deep black contemplation we’ve been waiting for.” —Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde


This event was originally broadcast on Monday, March 3, 2025"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["AK Press and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics celebrate the launch of artist and advocate Rasheedah Phillips’s expansive new book, Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time (AK Press 2025). [https://www.akpress.org/dismantling-the-masters-clock.html ]

Our dominant perception of time owes more to Western history and social order than to nature, argues Rasheedah Phillips, delving into Black and Afrodiasporic conceptions of time, where the past, present, and future interact in more numerous constellations. Drawing on philosophy, archival research, quantum physics, and Phillips’s art and law practice on housing policy, Dismantling the Master’s Clock expands the horizons of what can be imagined and, ultimately, achieved.

This collaborative event doubles as the soft launch of As for Protocols [https://www.veralistcenter.org/publications/as-for-protocols/ ]—a book by the Vera List Center and Amherst College Press in which an essay by Phillips elaborates on her 2020–2022 VLC Fellowship project, Time Zone Protocols, and maps out her ongoing practice as a member of Black Quantum Futurism to examine the political agendas that uphold Westernized time constructs. Phillips is joined in conversation by writer and VLC Assistant Director of Editorial Initiatives Re’al Christian, co-editor of As for Protocols.

Uploaded on Mar 10, 2025 at 1:08 pm"

[See also:
https://www.veralistcenter.org/events/dismantling-the-masters-clock-on-race-space-and-time ]]]></description>
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In this episode, renowned travel writer Pico Iyer describes how globalization – which offered up the mirage of a global monoculture – has instead led to a clash of civilizations and identity. For Pico, wisdom resides not in mastery but in doubt. From his decades of constant travel to his retreats in silence, Iyer describes how humility and stillness can open a clearer view of the world than certainty ever could.

Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:15 What’s in a Name
4:28 Travel and Stillness
7:19 The Contemplative Life
9:02 The Mirage of Globalization
14:06 The Inward Clash of Civilizations
17:36 The Nation of No Nation
24:24 The Return of the Strong Gods
26:54 Science, Spirituality, and the Dalai Lama
31:36 Leonard Cohen and the Half-Known Life
40:50 Ego and Undeludedness
43:00 Living in the Moment
46:41 Fire and Impermanence
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...

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- For as long as we’ve had physical theories describing the Universe, those working on them have sought a unified theory of everything, uniting all of nature’s forces, particles, and interactions in a single framework. 

- The quest has led us down many theoretically interesting avenues, spawning ideas like extra dimensions, supersymmetry, proton decay, string theory, and many others. However, none have led us to the promised land. 

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https://mcrawford.substack.com/p/is-math-erotic ]]]></description>
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    <title>Podcast - The Final Episode - Through the Looking Glass, On Philosophy &amp; Watches</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-25T08:20:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/podcast-the-final-episode-through-the-looking-glass-on-philosophy-watches/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Farewell, and thank you all for listening. The Aesthetic Revolution Will Be Beautiful!"

[Also here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/through-the-looking-glass-on-watches-philosophy-the/id1472733566?i=1000650769924
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5q14vURgxkB0UkRIXGBbxR ]]]></description>
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    <title>Podcast Insights E1 - Academic Perspectives on Watches - BEYOND THE DIAL</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-24T23:08:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/e1-perspectives-on-watches/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This introductory episode is a discussion about the various conceptual frameworks that we can use when thinking, writing, and talking about watches. These include mechanical, cultural, social, historical, design, phenomenological perspectives. This overview provides a set of possible frameworks that the ensuing episodes will use interchangeably. Think of this as a Metasode.

SHOW NOTES

The Mechanical Perspective
Jens Koch's Article in Watch Time about the Rolex DEEPSEA
https://www.watchtime.com/featured/rolex-deepsea-d-blue-hands-on-review/

The Social & Cultural Perspectives
Allen's Article at Worn & Wound about the Bell & Ross Areonavale 41mm
https://wornandwound.com/review/review-bell-ross-br-v2-92-aeronavale/

The Historical Perspective
Jack Forster's Article on the Omega Moon Watch 50th Anniversary Edition at Hodinkee
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/omega-speedmaster-apollo-11-50th-anniversary-limited-edition-in-depth

The Design Perspective
Zach Weiss Video Essay on the Christopher Ward C-60 Trident Pro V3 at Worn & Wound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADJMKnLzYD8 "

[Also here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/insights-e1-academic-perspectives-on-watches/id1472733566?i=1000444295274
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5MOjNrPhCN1ZjPHrKvoNc5 ]

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Featured watches:
Frederique Constant Monolith
Breguet Classique Chronométrie 7727 10Hz
Patek Philippe Aquanaut Travel Time Advanced Research 5650G
Urwerk EMC
Cartier ID Two
TAG Heuer Carrera Mikrogirder
Ulysse Nardin Freak"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Physicists today need to jettison the all-too-attractive myth that they are uncovering the hidden reality of our Universe"
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    <title>Scaling Laws and the Speed of Animals</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-29T02:38:47+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A recent paper found that the time it takes for an animal to move the length of its own body is largely independent of mass. This appears to hold from tiny bacteria on up to whales — that’s more than 20 orders of magnitude of mass. The paper’s argument as to why this happens relies on scaling laws. Alex Klotz explains.

<blockquote>A well-known example is the Square-Cube Law, dating back to Galileo and described quite well in the Haldane essay, On Being the Right Size. The Square-Cube Law essentially states that if something, be it a chair or a person or whatever, were made twice as tall, twice as wide, and twice as deep, its volume and mass would increase by a factor of eight, but its ability to support that mass, its cross sectional area, would only increase by a factor of four. This means as things get bigger, their own weight becomes more significant compared to their strength (ants can carry 50 times their own weight, squirrels can run up trees, and humans can do pullups).

Another example is terminal velocity: the drag force depends on the cross-sectional area, which (assuming a spherical cow) goes as the square of radius (or the two-thirds power of mass), while the weight depends on the volume, proportional to the cube of radius or the first power of mass. As Haldane graphically puts it

“You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.”</blockquote>

Scaling laws also come into play in determining the limits of the size of animals: The Biology of B-Movie Monsters.

<blockquote>When the Incredible Shrinking Man stops shrinking, he is about an inch tall, down by a factor of about 70 in linear dimensions. Thus, the surface area of his body, through which he loses heat, has decreased by a factor of 70 x 70 or about 5,000 times, but the mass of his body, which generates the heat, has decreased by 70 x 70 x 70 or 350,000 times. He’s clearly going to have a hard time maintaining his body temperature (even though his clothes are now conveniently shrinking with him) unless his metabolic rate increases drastically.

Luckily, his lung area has only decreased by 5,000-fold, so he can get the relatively larger supply of oxygen he needs, but he’s going to have to supply his body with much more fuel; like a shrew, he’ll probably have to eat his own weight daily just to stay alive. He’ll also have to give up sleeping and eat 24 hours a day or risk starving before he wakes up in the morning (unless he can learn the trick used by hummingbirds of lowering their body temperatures while they sleep).</blockquote>"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When medieval scholars sought to understand the nature of angels, they unwittingly laid the foundations of modern physics"]]></description>
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    <title>Erald Kolasi’s “The Physics of Capitalism” with Timour Kamran and Jordan Whelchel - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-01T21:57:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWaZZjErdq4</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[See also:

The Physics of Capitalism: How a New Political Ecology Can Change the World, by Erald Kolasi (2025)
https://nyupress.org/9781685900908/the-physics-of-capitalism/

"A comprehensive blueprint for a new post-capitalist order—which values our collective future over immediate economic gains

The fate of all economic systems is written in the energy flows they obtain from the natural world. Our collective humanity very much depends on nature—for joy, for comfort, and for sheer survival. In his prescient new book, The Physics of Capitalism, Erald Kolasi explores the deep ecological physics of human existence by developing a new theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between economic systems and the wider natural world.

Nature is full of complex and dynamic systems that are constantly interacting with our societies. The collective physical interactions of the natural world guide and forge many fundamental features of human societies and civilizations. Humanity does not exist on a magical pedestal above the rest of reality; we are just one slice in a grand continuum of physical systems that interact, combine, and transform over time. We too belong to the natural world. And it’s this critical fact that controls the long-term fate of our economies and civilizations. Among all the living organisms that have called this blue marble home, humans are a very recent species. In that short period of time, we have managed to become one of the most dominant life forms in the history of the planet, creating powerful civilizations with elaborate cultures, large populations, and extensive trade networks. We have been nomads and farmers, scientists and lawyers, nurses and doctors, welders and blacksmiths. Our achievements are both astonishing and unprecedented, but they also carry great risks.

Throughout history, economic growth has depended heavily on people converting more energy from their natural environments and concentrating the resulting energy flows towards the application of specific tasks. The economic and demographic growth of human civilization over the last ten thousand years has profoundly impacted natural ecosystems throughout the planet, triggering major instabilities across the biosphere that threaten to reverberate on civilization and to destabilize its long-term trajectory. Swamped with multiple ecological challenges of historic proportions, global civilization now stands at a critical tipping point that deserves closer scrutiny. If we are to have any hope of addressing the difficult challenges we face, then we must begin by understanding them and appreciating their complexity. And then, we must act. This book offers a comprehensive blueprint for our collective future, pointing the way to a new post-capitalist order that can provide long-term viability and stability for human civilization on a global scale."


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...

"Demonstrating that time has bookends took millennia of enquiry, but its implications are bedding in only now. It was only by discovering that time is unfathomably deep – but not limitless – that our species has realised we don’t have the excuse or exculpation of eternity. There will be no reruns, no other Earths. Dying here means dying forever. And for all we know, there are no other intelligences in the Universe ready to take the baton. No longer can we rest assured, knowing that mishaps down here may be compensated by identical histories, elsewhere, throughout eternally churning star shoals. As Eiseley put it: ‘the same hands will never twice build the golden cities of this world’.

When we become aware of our own individual mortality – the ‘first death’ – we discover we have one, single opportunity with our own lives. We now must accept the same applies to life itself, cosmically speaking.

The yearning for immortality hasn’t left us, of course, but we now must look for it in Many-Worlds interpretations of quantum physics and other increasingly exotic, unreachable places. Where centuries ago, it was possible to hold that one’s history might repeat on other continents – and, later, on other planets – we now must seek the comforts of recurrence in parallel universes.

The degree to which we have banished eternity outward, from unexplored landmasses to the outskirts of spacetime, is the extent to which the stakes – of what unfolds here and now – have heightened.

If orienting ourselves in space generated the Copernican worldview, gaining our bearings in time is forging something new. The tenor of the former was mediocrity; the lesson of the latter is precarity.

What’s more, this new sense of our orientation – within time’s wider expanses – appears to have coalesced just in time. Up until recently, thinkers took deep time as indication of the present’s triviality. Within such magnitudes, ‘now’ seemingly shrinks to nullity, with its legacies being laundered away in the longer term.

But such a view is wrong. What’s currently unfolding might leave legacies that cannot be taken back, and were not inevitable, but still will be felt aeons hence. Time isn’t just deep; it’s deeply fragile. This dizzying knowledge needs, urgently, to sink in. Either we apply it now, just in time, and secure our future, or there might not be one. We don’t have the luxury of infinite retries.

Some may find it depressing to consider that, inevitably, everything dies. But they are missing one truth: it is only in a mortal world that consequences can resonate indelibly. After all, thermodynamics teaches that useful energy is finite in the Universe, and performing actions – of whatever sort – depletes this fund. Accordingly, the amount of actions that will ever get accomplished is finite, no matter how enormous this finitude might be. Selecting one action over any others possible, therefore, leaves an indelible cosmic legacy, regardless of how trifling. Because, though legacies can be reversed, this itself also expends effort, and energy isn’t infinite.

So, though the first lesson is that existence itself is bookended, the second – more profound – lesson is that this makes actions enduring in a newly cosmical sense. It is the dying of the world that secures the immortality of our influence.

This applies to modest goals as much as to hubristic, grandiose ones. We might call it the energetic imperative. Don’t let energy go to waste. Channel it towards what is beautiful, joyous, vivacious, ebullient! Because every moment we don’t, this ageing Universe forever becomes a less cacophonous, colourful place than it could otherwise have been.

Which is why this supremacy of finitude – this circumambience of grander mortalities than our own – is, in fact, galvanising. Just like the child coming to accept her ‘first death’, apprehending this might simply be part of growing up.

Ultimately, eternity intoxicates and stultifies, whereas finitude edifies by showing us that our decisions – right now – do matter. If immortality’s price is agency’s liquidation, I’d choose agency every time."]]></description>
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Format: Book
Binding: pb
Pages: 392
Released: January 28, 2025
ISBN-13: 9781849355612

A radical new treatise on time, quantum physics, and racial justice from world-renowned artist and advocate Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism.

Why do some processes—like aging, birth, and car crashes—occur in only one direction in time, when by the fundamental symmetry of the universe, we should experience time both forward and backward? Our dominant perception of time owes more to Western history and social order than to a fact of nature, argues writer Rasheedah Phillips, delving into Black and Afrodiasporic conceptions of time, where the past, present, and future interact in more numerous constellations.

Phillips unfolds the history of time and its legacy of racial oppression, from colonial exploration and the plantation system to the establishment of Daylight Savings. Yet Black communities have long subverted space-time through such tools of resistance as Juneteenth, tenant organizing, ritual, and time travel. What could Black liberation look like if the past were as changeable as the future?

Drawing on philosophy, archival research, quantum physics, and Phillips’s own art practice and work on housing policy, Dismantling the Master’s Clock expands the horizons of what can be imagined and, ultimately, achieved.

Praise for Dismantling the Master's Clock:

"The straightening and whitening of time are as viciously colonial, as brutally geocidal and genocidal, as the settling and owning of space. Rasheedah Phillips brilliantly and rigorously alerts us to this condition while also showing us how we walk with and wait on one another in rhythm. Dismantling the Master’s Clock is a queer, black, reconstructive tour de force." —Fred Moten, co-author of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study

“This book is a fruitful offering to a world with ever-increasing anxiety about the future. With incredible precision, the text delivers an invitation to reconstruct all that we accept in relation to time and existence. The brilliant Rasheedah Phillips untangles and explores history, memory, and quantum perspectives like so few others can.” —Kimberly Drew, author of Black Futures

"I often speak to friends about a virtual workshop I attended guided by a Black woman on how to time travel. How I sat in awe experiencing a life-altering experimentation with time. I am utterly blown away by the work of Rasheedah Phillips and Black Quantum Futurism. Phillips’ ... bold declarations about time, Blackness, and the power of space feels like a special, underground portal silently healing us and shifting culture. Dismantling the Master's Clock is our path to deep connection and power. This is revolutionary work." —Tricia Hersey, author of Rest Is Resistance: Free Yourself from Grind Culture and Reframe Your Life

"Whether the device in hand is a quantum time capsule, a newly crafted time zone protocol, or instruments for bending the arrow of time, the praxis is one of grounded theory, laser-focused on changing the material conditions of possibility for reconfiguring geographies, architectures, calendars, and constellations ... Phillips invites us into a real-world laboratory of situated analysis and experimentation that takes seriously the material nature of imaginings." —Karen Barad, author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning

"In this well-researched and expansive text, Rasheedah Phillips offers a detailed history of how standardized colonial time constricts Black life and decolonial freedom ... The time you will spend with this book will not drag you from point A to point B; it will expand into the field of deep black contemplation we've been waiting for." —Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

"Dismantling the Master's Clock is a gorgeous weaving of art, science and activism. Rasheedah Phillips inspires the mind and recharges the heart with this volume."—Michelle M. Wright, author of Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology

“Dismantling the Master’s Clock reorganizes … the bereft economies of juridical time, which function to unhouse and displace according to linear and measured schedules … by bringing into sharp focus alternative tempos, promises, and cadences.” —Katherine McKittrick, author of Dear Science and Other Stories

“When the world is collapsing in grief and we enter into the billionth year of being told that we’re all about to die or maybe dead already, Phillips insists on a renegotiation of space and time that uplifts and loves Black people, holding us tenderly in a space where we can thrive. This is a call to mutiny against the violence of colonized, imperial, genocidal time. Amen!” —Legacy Russell, author of Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us

Rasheedah Phillips is a queer housing advocate, lawyer, parent, and interdisciplinary artist working through a Black futurist lens. Phillips is the founder of the AfroFuturist Affair, founding member of the Metropolarity Queer Speculative Fiction Collective, and co-creator of the art duo Black Quantum Futurism. Phillips’ work has been featured in the New York Times, The Wire, New York Magazine, Boston Review, Hyperallergic, and e-flux."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Link to Feynman’s released FBI file (pg 64):
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2012/jun/06/feynman-files-professors-invitation-past-iron-curt/

Surely You’re a Creep, Mr. Feynman by Leila McNeill:
https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/surely-youre-a-creep-mr-feynman-mcneill

Who Do You Think You are Kidding, Mr Feynman on Terence Eden’s Blog:
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/04/who-do-you-think-you-are-kidding-mr-feynman/

Why do I Curate for ‘Prof Feynman’ by Sunny Labh
https://piggsboson.medium.com/why-do-i-curate-for-proffeynman-c4294c9f8aa4  

NYT Interview with Murray Gell-Mann:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210508183214/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/08/magazine/the-man-who-knows-everything-murray-gell-mann.html

Gell-Mann on Feynman: 
"Murray Gell-Mann - Collaborating with Feynman (84/200)"  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNsaTskCYPQ

Feynman Teeth Brushing: 
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IaWf_JglYOo

Growing up Feynman:
"Growing Up Feynman - Michelle Feynman - 5/11/2018"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnSvy3nH7l0  

Oral History with Jenijoy La Belle
https://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/175/1/La_Belle,_J._OHO.pdf

Feynman Super-Projection at Caltech: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irLjSRSwmTk&t=124s

Robert Leighton Oral History: 
https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/4738-2

Feynman- The problem of teaching physics in Latin America:
https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/46/2/LatinAmerica.htm

Feynman’s  Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown) ‪@MinutePhysics‬ :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdIjYBtnvZU

Inside the Mind of Richard Feynman ‪@SciShow‬ :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIJw3OLB9sI  

Feynman Computer science lecture: 
"Richard Feynman Computer Science Lecture - Hardware, Software and Heuristics"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA

Ralph Leighton playing drums with Feynman:
"Richard Feynman playing bongos with Ralph Leighton" 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HzQCadNya4  



00:00:00 the sham legacy of Richard Feynman
00:04:13  the legend of Richard Feynman
00:16:18   physicists are weird about Richard Feynman 
00:20:58  anatomy of a LEGEND
00:34:45  internet people are weird about Richard Feynman
00:45:10   the myth of Richard Feynman
00:55:37  the myth of Richard Feynman Part II
01:23:30  the Ralph Leighton of it all
01:45:08   selling anything a genius touched for cash
01:56:45   an unsatisfying ending
01:59:45   Richard Feynman the man
02:28:38   Richard Feynman in physics
02:41:32   Credits
02:44:38   Bonus: Richard Feynman on crackpots"]]></description>
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03:11  Bill Gates on physics
05:48  Billionaires on physics
14:25  Walter Isaacson syndrome
21:04 attempt at solving the mystery
26:20 that time I read and enjoyed Ayn Rand
42:11 You probably don’t want to end up on the secret billionaire island 
46:41  Credits
49:22 Business business business"]]></description>
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    <title>#nicanorparra Cinco años sin Parra - Cap.01: El Fantasma de Parra - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[Chapter 1]

"#nicanorparra Cinco años sin Parra - Cap.01: El Fantasma de Parra - YouTube"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwCqXMxA6I8

"¿Dónde habita el fantasma de Parra?
Desde su hija Colombina a su nieta Cristalina. Desde Patricio Fernández a Rafael Gumucio, pasando por Matías Rivas, todos cuentan su propia versión de un hombre que dejó un legado diverso, complejo, sombrío, divertido y, la mayoría de las veces, encantadoramente desconcertante."

[Chapter 2]

"#nicanorparra Cinco años sin Parra - Cap02: Neruda, el punk y los presidentes colgados"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r77T9ZbSNu0

"La relación de competencia de Parra con Neruda. Su hastío con la academia y su actitud punk. Las mafias del Nobel y el episodio de los presidentes colgados. "

[Chapter 3]

#nicanorparra Cinco años sin Parra - Cap03: Dinero y amor, Nicanor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwr2f7AfCT4

"Mira el capítulo 3 de Cinco años sin Parra: una antiserie. En esta entrega, por qué era importante cobrar bien y tener dinero en la cuenta bancaria. La relación de atracción, influencia y conflicto de Parra con las mujeres que cruzaron su vida. La sueca que lo convenció de quedarse en una comida."

[Chapter 4]

"#nicanorparra Cinco años sin Parra - Cap04: Izquierda y derecha unidas..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN-IQiRyMww

"Cap04: Izquierda y derecha unidas...
¡Último capítulo! La relación de Nicanor Parra con la política y las ideologías. Qué habría pensado del estallido, la pandemia y el proceso constituyente. Su defensa a Allen Ginsberg en La Habana y por qué se autodefinió ecologista treinta años antes de que fuera un tema real a nivel global."

[Credits]

"Dirección y Montaje:Sebastián Millán
Edición general: Ignacio Bazán
Edición y Producción Periodística: Francisco Artaza, Jorge Arellano
Cámaras: Sebastián Millán, Catalina Jaque, Rodrigo Bacigalupe
Sonido: Óscar Teare
Dirección de arte: Patricia Holmqvist
Gráficas: Sebastián Sánchez"

[See also:

"Este lunes 23 de enero se cumplieron cinco años de la muerte de Nicanor Parra, y en conmemoración a la fecha La Tercera estrena el último de cuatro capítulos de una serie en la que distintas personas que formaron parte de la vida del poeta -que van desde su hija Colombina y su nieta Cristalina a amigos y editores- intentan, cada uno a su manera, explicar su Parra más personal.

El último de los cuatro actos de la serie “Cinco Años sin Parra” se estrena por las distintas plataformas de La Tercera.

Este cuarto capítulo se titula “Izquierda y derecha unidas...” y aborda la relación de Nicanor Parra con la política y las ideologías. Con anécdotas e historias que van desde cómo hizo esperar más de tres horas al expresidente de la República Ricardo Lagos, hasta cómo hubiese visto la llegada de Gabriel Boric al poder.

También quienes formaron parte de la serie se refieren a qué habría pensado el antipoeta sobre del estallido social, la pandemia y el proceso constituyente, todos sucesos que no logró observar en vida.

Asimismo, se aborda la defensa a Allen Ginsberg en La Habana, que lo alejó de Fidel Castro y por qué se autodefinió ecologista treinta años antes de que fuera un tema real a nivel global.

En esta “antiserie” hablan sobre el escritor desde su hija Colombina a su nieta Cristalina. Desde Patricio Fernández a Rafael Gumucio, pasando por Matías Rivas, César Cuadra y Adán Méndez, todos cuentan su propia versión de un hombre que dejó un legado diverso, complejo, sombrío, divertido y, la mayoría de las veces, encantadoramente desconcertante.

En la primera entrega de la serie se intenta localizar a Parra. Al menos a su fantasma. Y aunque este ejercicio, el viaje, nos diga que probablemente nunca vamos a dar con él, sí queda una frase suya que su amigo, el filólogo César Cuadra, resucita en este primer capítulo:

Muerte sí.

Funerales no.

En el segundo capítulo: Neruda, el punk y los presidentes colgados, se aborda su relación de competencia y admiración con Pablo Neruda; de cómo la academia lo fue hastiando hasta cambiarla por una actitud más punk (y más pop también); de cómo su instalación de los presidentes colgados (llamada “El pago de Chile”) pasó de ser una grave ofensa a la institucionalidad hace poco más de 15 años a volver a la misma Moneda dentro del recientemente inaugurado salón Parra.

En tanto, en el tercer capítulo de la serie: Dinero y amor, Nicanor, aborda el porqué para Nicanor Parra era importante cobrar bien y tener dinero en la cuenta bancaria. Asimismo, la relación de atracción, influencia y conflicto del poeta con las mujeres que cruzaron su vida. La sueca que lo convenció de quedarse en una comida, por ejemplo."]]]></description>
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    <title>The Invisible World</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["No one has ever seen an electron, quark or neutrino. Yet, no physicist has any doubt as to the existence of these particles. Through mathematics, physicists have opened up the world of the invisible, they have, quite literally, taught us another way to 'see' the world.

The Invisible World illuminates the social and cultural history of particle physics in the twentieth century, describing the invisible objects and forces that have shaped our world and chronicling the lives of the people who first revealed them; physicists whose discoveries changed the courses of nations. From the coincident revelations of x-rays and the cinema to the rise of string theory and exotic financial instruments, The Invisible World is a sweeping history of the twentieth century and the physics that shaped the world we know today.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the first particle had only just been observed and physicists were still not sure of the existence of atoms or molecules. Since then, physics has unleashed profound changes on our world. From X-rays to transistors to TVs to atomic weapons, we have learned to live with these new realities and have forged our culture and politics around them.

Never before has there been a single record, one narrative history, of what physicists have accomplished in the twentieth century in their quest to understand the fundamental laws and fabric of the universe - and no cultural history that illuminates what that tumultuous century, in all its beauty and terror, had in turn done to them. The Invisible World brilliantly examines the larger role of history and culture in the lives and work of physicists and reveals the stories of how physics left a profound mark on culture and society. The history of the twentieth century, the political shifts between Europe and the United States, the changes in art and popular culture, can all be understood through the lens of physics."]]></description>
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    <title>Our world is indeed part of many worlds of quantum universe: Study</title>
    <dc:date>2025-01-01T03:12:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://interestingengineering.com/science/classical-world-from-parallel-quantum-universes</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Entanglement and superposition may seem bizarre, but they ultimately give rise to stable realities like ours."

...

"rom your morning coffee to the road leading to your office and all other things and people you experience in your everyday life are all part of the classical world. This world is governed by the rules and laws of classical physics.

However, quantum mechanics sheds light on another realm of extremely tiny things, like atoms, electrons, and photons. It is called the quantum world, and here, the rules are very different and often counterintuitive. 

For instance, in the classical world, water can either be ice or liquid water at a given time—it cannot be both. But in the quantum world, a particle can exist in multiple states at once due to a phenomenon called superposition. [https://interestingengineering.com/science/new-physics-experiment-indicates-no-objective-reality ] 

There are numerous other things that make the two worlds strikingly different from each other. However, surprisingly, simulations from a new study show that the classical world emerges from a wide range of quantum systems. This emergence is natural and inevitable and doesn’t need special conditions.

Connecting the two words through the many worlds theory

The many worlds interpretation [https://interestingengineering.com/science/the-first-ever-evidence-of-the-multiverse ] of quantum mechanics states that every time a quantum measurement is made, the universe splits into different branches, each creating a parallel world with its own distinct reality. 

The study authors suggest that our classical world is one of those stable branches. Within these diverse realities, the familiar classical experience is not merely possible but an inevitable consequence of how quantum systems behave macroscopically.

These findings are supported by computer simulations of various quantum systems, in which the authors analyzed the evolution of these systems across 50,000 distinct energy levels. The simulations demonstrated the rise of large, stable branch patterns.

Even when the study authors changed the energy levels, coupling strength, and other initial conditions for the quantum [https://interestingengineering.com/science/the-first-ever-evidence-of-the-multiverse ] systems, they still led to the formation of similar branch patterns. This suggests that the formation of a classical system from quantum events is a natural and unavoidable process. 

“Even a few atoms or photons can behave classically. Furthermore, it is a ubiquitous and generic phenomenon that does not require any fine-tuning: the emergence of a classical world is inevitable,” Philipp Strasberg, one of the study authors and a physicist at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, said [https://phys.org/news/2024-12-numerical-simulations-classical-world-emerge.html ].

Some things remain consistent

This is not the first study to connect the quantum and classical worlds through the many world interpretations. 

Previous studies have attempted to link the two worlds while focusing on quantum decoherence, a phenomenon suggesting that quantum systems lose their weirdness (properties like entanglement or superposition) when observed on a large scale [https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/lifting-the-veil-on-quantum-mysteries-checking-macroscopic-quantum-effects-in-the-dark ].

However, those studies relied on certain conditions and assumptions for their results. Whereas the current study suggests that classical systems are supposed to emerge from quantum events without any fine-tuning. 

This is because although quantum events seem chaotic and lead to many outcomes, they can produce a set of features that remain consistent and stable.  

“This suggests a solution to the preferred basis problem of the many-worlds interpretation within a minimal theoretical framework without relying on environmentally induced decoherence, quantum Darwinism, Markov approximations, low-entropy initial states, or ensemble averages,” the study authors note [https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.041027#s5  ].

These findings are of great importance as they provide valuable insights into how our classical world actually arises from the quantum one. 

The study is published in the journal Physical Review X.

["First Principles Numerical Demonstration of Emergent Decoherent Histories"
https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.041027#s5 

"Within the histories formalism the decoherence functional is a formal tool to investigate the emergence of classicality in isolated quantum systems, yet an explicit evaluation of it from first principles has not been reported. We provide such an evaluation for up to five-time histories based on exact numerical diagonalization of the Schrödinger equation. We find a robust emergence of decoherence for slow and coarse observables of a generic random matrix model and extract a finite-size scaling law by varying the Hilbert space dimension over 4 orders of magnitude. Specifically, we conjecture and observe an exponential suppression of coherent effects as a function of the particle number of the system. This suggests a solution to the preferred basis problem of the many-worlds interpretation (or the set selection problem of the histories formalism) within a minimal theoretical framework without relying on environmentally induced decoherence, quantum Darwinism, Markov approximations, low-entropy initial states, or ensemble averages."]"]]></description>
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    <title>Literatura e incertidumbre - ¿Qué hace la poesía para ayudarnos a sobrellevar el futuro? - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-12-22T02:03:19+00:00</dc:date>
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Aquí intenté trazar uno atisbo vasos comunicantes entre científicos, poetas y poetas-científicos, pero no es más que una pequeña muestra de un fractal."]]></description>
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[via:
https://social.ayjay.org/2024/12/10/phil-christman-on.html

"Phil Christman on Adam Roberts: “That Roberts, who can do humor, pathos, style, and big ideas with such dazzling effectiveness, in book after book, is not already universally acknowledged as one of the finest living English-language writers is probably another effect of our fear of wonderful and complex things.”"]]]></description>
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    <title>Benjamín Labatut: &quot;La IA es una belleza y un terror nuevo&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2024-11-24T21:42:35+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Tras el éxito de 'Un verdor terrible', el escritor regresa con 'Maniac', una novela en la que explora los límites del pensamiento y los delirios de la razón"

...

"“No me gustan las novelas corales. No me gustan las novelas, y punto”, reflexiona Benjamín Labatut (Rotterdam, 1980) durante una rueda de prensa en Barcelona. Sin embargo, se ha visto obligado a hacer algo que se le parece en Maniac (Anagrama) “porque un narrador singular habría traicionado la esencia de John von Neumann”. Y eso es algo, que el autor no quería hacer por nada del mundo, pues es mucha la admiración que siente por el matemático húngaro-estadounidense, al que considera “el ser humano más inteligente del siglo XX”.

“Era un genio entre genios” pero, también,“la encarnación del demonio matemático”. Por personas como él, el físico austríaco Paul Ehrenfest, amigo íntimo de Albert Einstein, se suicidó. Se pegó un tiro en la cabeza justo después de disparar a su hijo Vassily, que padecía síndrome de Down. Creía que tanto el joven de catorce años como él estaban en peligro.

“Se vio enfrentado al nazismo como un movimiento político porque ponía en riesgo la vida de su hijo; a un movimiento en la ciencia moderna que ponía en riesgo su comprensión y a una cierta racionalidad nueva que era muy ajena a su carácter” y que se materializa con von Neumann, considerado por sus colegas como el próximo paso en la evolución humana.

John von Neumann es la persona que está detrás de los ordenadores modernos. También ayudó a diseñar las bombas nucleares y desarrolló la teoría de los juegos. A lo largo de su carrera, dio rienda suelta a un impulso creativo que, con el tiempo, le hizo darse cuenta de que podría amenazar la primacía de la especie humana. “Para el progreso no hay cura”, terminó diciendo, consciente de que se acercaba momento histórico en el que los humanos no podrían de avanzar. Un punto de inflexión en el que la Inteligencia Artificial cobra un gran protagonismo. “Una belleza nueva y, también, un terror nuevo”, señala Labatut.

Por ahora, “los sistemas de IA son predictivos y, por ende, oraculares. Uno no puede escudriñar en su interior y entender lo que ocurre. El problema es que creo que lo que vamos a ver en el futuro cercano es a la gente endiosando estos sistemas y datarlos de atributos que no tienen. Al mismo tiempo, va a haber una condena fundamentalista en la que, por un lado, nos negaremos a ponernos de rodillas frente a estos dioses nuevos. Y, por otro, no nos quedará más remedio. Las personas sabias van a tener que saber cuándo optar por una de esas dos actitudes. ¿Por cuál me decantaría yo? Yo critico de rodillas”, reconoce el autor de Un verdor terrible.

Labatut es crítico con la realidad actual aunque, insiste, en sus libros “no hago una denuncia de la ciencia. Lo que trato de mostrar es como irradia a veces. Hoy en día estamos irradiados con demasiada luz que nos hace perder los matices. Una luz que puede llegar a ser peligrosa y tóxica. Está todo quemado y es como si hubiera una desertificación del alma humana de manos de la ciencia. Y, cuando algo está demasiado iluminado, deja de ser misterioso”.

El escritor reconoce que “está bien vivir en el mundo de la luz, de la razón, de la tecnología, pero si no sabemos volver una y otra vez a lo hondo, a las cavernas, nos perdemos la mitad del fenómeno humano. La literatura, por ejemplo, es un hábito de caverna. Es esa capacidad para ver en el interior de la cueva”.

¿Cómo saber cuándo volver a las profundidades? “Debería ser un hábito. Lo difícil de ser un ser humano moderno es que no podemos dejar atrás el individualismo. No podemos desoír las cosas que la ciencia nos ha mostrado ni tampoco dejar de escuchar las voces que hablan en el silencio y que retumban en las iglesias. No es necesario creer en Dios, es necesario pensar en Dios. Lo mismo con la ciencia. No hay que creer en ella, hay que practicarla", señala Labatut mientras recuerda su estancia hace unos días en el monasterio de Montserrat. 

“Lo primero que hice al llegar a Barcelona fue ir a ver a la virgen. Y estaba ahí, prácticamente sola, más allá de algunos escolares que estaban por los alrededores y algún turista chino. Ese vacío es el que nos falta. Poder estar solos”. En esa excursión, el autor reconoce haber encontrado “el equilibrio perfecto” pues, además de la Moreneta, vio también “al demonio en forma de cabra”, que “huyó cuando traté de tocarlo”."]]></description>
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    <title>Cuatro cuentos cuánticos, de Javier Argüello - Zenda</title>
    <dc:date>2024-11-24T07:35:40+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Los cuatro relatos que componen este libro desafían literalmente la consistencia del mundo que habitamos. Un ejemplo: un periodista varado en Ucrania termina encontrándose en Londres con un escritor del siglo XIX. Y es que los saltos cuánticos que propone el título no son aquí cosa de broma.

En Zenda reproducimos el arranque del relato “Partir”, presente en el libro Cuatro cuentos cuánticos (Random House), de Javier Argüello.

***

PARTIR

Fue una noche en el bar de la universidad que conocí a Oscar Caridad. Oscar Caridad era un loco. Y sé que esto es algo que se dice de mucha gente, pero en este caso no se trata de una apreciación mía. Tal vez convenga aclarar que yo asistí a la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, el lugar escogido por los integrantes del Frente de Artistas del hospital psiquiátrico José Borda para dar a conocer sus trabajos. Oscar Caridad formaba parte del taller de poesía, y la noche de la que hablo había venido junto con otros internos a enseñarnos sus escritos. Yo había terminado mi última clase y, antes de irme a casa, había decidido pasar por el bar a ver si me encontraba con alguna cara conocida. Fue así que, por pura casualidad, di con el singular grupo de poetas.

Antes de dar por comenzado el evento, el coordinador del taller nos explicó que lo que íbamos a escuchar eran justamente las reflexiones de los internos acerca de lo que representaba para ellos la palabra poesía. El texto presentado por Caridad se titulaba Partí, y constituía una hermosa y poética explicación acerca de la manera en que había comenzado a alejarse el mundo, hasta que llegó un punto en que se le hizo imposible compaginar ese alejamiento con la realidad cotidiana. Me impresionó de tal manera que, luego de que bajara del escenario, me acerqué a hacérselo saber y a pedirle que me dejara fotocopiarlo o transcribirlo. Accedió con aire ausente y, como la fotocopiadora ya estaba cerrada a esas horas, nos sentamos en una mesa, yo a copiar su escrito y él a esperar a que lo hiciera. Apenas había empezado cuando Caridad me preguntó si el edificio en el que estábamos era el de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Le expliqué que no, que era el de Ciencias Sociales, y restándole importancia al asunto seguí trabajando. No pasó mucho tiempo, sin embargo, antes de que volviera a interrogarme acerca del mismo asunto. ¿Y en algún otro momento no fue la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras? preguntó. No lo creo, le dije. En los cinco años que llevaba estudiando allí nunca había escuchado a nadie que hiciera ninguna referencia al tema, así que asumí que mi interlocutor debía estar confundiéndose ¿Está seguro?, insistió él. Más por complacerlo que por otra cosa, interrogué a la gente del bar al respecto y para mi sorpresa descubrí que, efectivamente, hasta hacía doce años atrás, esa en la que nos encontrábamos había sido la sede de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Sentí algo de vergüenza. En ningún caso había querido tratarlo como a un loco, pero las circunstancias hacían poco probable que él pensara algo diferente. Discreto, sin embargo, guardó silencio. Seguí trabajando, y ya casi había terminado, cuando Oscar Caridad intervino de nuevo. Yo antes estudiaba acá, me dijo obligándome a levantar la vista. Entonces me miró a los ojos, y con la misma inmutable inexpresividad agregó: yo antes era como vos.

Transcribo a continuación el poema que Oscar Caridad leyó esa noche:

<blockquote>-Partí-
En el muelle saludé vestido de rojo.
Sabía y estaba alerta del largo viaje de Ulises.
Soñé que mi pensamiento fuera como el mar.
Soñé con un violeta eterno.
La mecánica del ego nunca te deja ir del todo.
La inteligencia te juega trampas, como el recuerdo.

-Partí-
En la borda mirando el mar oscuro.
Tenso, vestía luto.
Despedí mis últimas palabras reconocidas.
Despedí la muerte del delirio de este mundo.
Una palabra volvió sobre sí: poesía.
El retorno de la fuga de todas las palabras.</blockquote>

El hecho ocurrió hace unos diez años, y no fue sino hasta esta noche que volví a tener noticias de Oscar Caridad. Fue en un bar cerca de mi casa. Un bar en el que, extrañamente, nunca antes había reparado. Me encontraba regresando de un día particularmente ajetreado cuando lo vi. Y no es que estuviera escondido, no. Tampoco era un sitio nuevo. Se notaba en la arquitectura y en el mobiliario, y sobre todo en la forma en que el hombre que lo atendía se relacionaba con sus clientes. Era un tipo mayor y llevaba a cabo su trabajo con la mecánica tranquilidad que sólo el tiempo otorga.

Entré como por obligación. Me parecía una especie de deslealtad hacia vaya a saber quién esto de no conocer un bar tan cercano a mi domicilio. Me senté en la barra y pedí cerveza, y mientras esperaba, comencé a recorrer el sitio con la vista. Entonces lo descubrí. A escasos dos metros de donde me hallaba, y también junto a la barra, me encontré con la melancólica silueta de Oscar Caridad."]]></description>
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    <title>Javier Argüello: “Si no damos un sentido a la tecnología, se puede volver peligrosa”</title>
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"“¿Y si todo lo que estamos viviendo no es verdad? ¿Y si realmente estamos inmersos en una especie de show de Truman, en el que otros, sin ser nosotros conscientes, nos observan?”. Estas son solo algunas de las muchas preguntas que Javier Argüello (Santiago de Chile, 1972) se pregunta mientras se refresca la garganta con un agua con gas. Hace días que el calor acecha en Barcelona, pero puede que no sean las elevadas temperaturas para esta época del año lo que le causa sofoco, sino su constante búsqueda de los límites entre realidad y ficción, muy presente en toda su obra y especialmente en su último libro, Cuatro cuentos cuánticos (Random House).

“Tenía muy claro el título sin haber escrito nada. Así, que, el hecho de que fueran solo cuatro cuentos los que conformaban un libro, me obligaban a que fueran largos. Y eso es algo que no había hecho nunca”, asegura el autor argentino nacido en Chile y radicado en Barcelona, que presenta a un hombre que se reúne con sus compañeros de clase treinta años después; a un periodista varado en Ucrania que se encuentra en Londres con un escritor del siglo XIX; a un conferenciante que descubre las calles de Pekín de la mano de una íntima desconocida; y a un escritor que roza la locura siguiendo la pista de un paciente de un manicomio”.
“Las vidas posibles, soñadas e imaginadas, pero que no siempre son, es algo que me seduce. Los escritores vamos descubriendo nuestras obsesiones a lo largo de nuestra trayectoria. Yo no fui consciente del todo de qué era lo que tanto me impresionaba hasta que escribí mi primer libro de cuentos. Pensaba que eran historias inconexas, hasta que las leí de una sentada y me percaté de lo mucho que me fascinaba el tratar de entender cómo las reglas narrativas se entremezclan con la naturaleza provisional y aleatoria de lo real. La respuesta es fácil, si tiene sentido es ficción, porque la realidad no lo tiene”.

Argüello forma parte de un selecto grupo de escritores, como Benjamin Labatut y su Maniac (Anagrama), que incorporan la ciencia en sus relatos, pues “es algo que sale de forma natural”. Son muchos los foros multidisciplinares, de ciencia y humanismo, en los que participa y ya van dos veces que ha visitado el acelerador de partículas de Ginebra. Un provechoso viaje del que extraerá dos ensayos que llegarán en los próximos meses. 

No es extraño que, con esa predilección, esté pendiente de los avances robóticos y la inteligencia artificial. “La tecnología no es peligrosa en sí misma, pero debemos darle un sentido para que no se vuelva peligrosa. Si no hay un centro a partir del cual dotamos algo de sentido, podemos perder el rumbo y la dirección”.

La ciencia no deja de ser un relato”
Fue en la universidad cuando su vena científica salió a relucir: “Estudié ciencias sociales, pero cursé un seminario de física en el que me explicaron la idea de la consciencia construyendo realidad, y me pareció revelador”. Un principio que ya estaba presente en la antigüedad clásica, “cuando nadie dudaba de que la palabra rea el mundo. Ahora parece que estamos volviendo a esa vieja posibilidad”, dice convencido.

El autor de Ser rojo (2020) se pregunta a menudo por qué el sistema educativo separa a los alumnos en ciencias y letras, cuando “la ciencia no deja de ser un relato. Einstein decía que nos hemos especializado tanto, que estamos sabiendo cada vez más acerca de cada vez menos, hasta que va a llegar un punto en el que vamos a saber casi todo acerca de casi nada”. Una frase con la que está “cien por cien de acuerdo. Resume casi todo”."
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...

"Parece mentira que una teoría científica como la cuántica deje tanto espacio para maniobrar con la imaginación. Pablo Picasso creó el cubismo desde la idea de asimetría que llevó a Einstein a formular su teoría de la relatividad. También con Albert Einstein contrajo deuda Lawrence Durrell, cuando escribió el célebre El cuarteto de Alejandría; así lo reconoció un tiempo después. La música, el arte más cartesiano de todos, sirvió al escritor inglés Aldous Huxley a concebir su obra mayor y una de las más importantes del siglo XX, Contrapunto. He citado estos casos de connivencia entre ciencia y ficción para introducir al lector en la obra del escritor argentino (aunque nacido en Santiago de Chile) Javier Argüello. Por supuesto que estas concomitancias no son mecánicas. Cada una de las citadas tiene su manera muy particular de trasladar algunas leyes científicas a su estructura. En Javier Argüello, que ya lo sugirió en obras anteriores, se explicita aquella connivencia con mayor transparencia y convicción narrativa en el libro nuevo que ahora publica; se trata de Cuatro cuentos cuánticos.

La literatura de Javier Argüello se desenvuelve entre lo lineal de toda historia escrita y el salto a la incertidumbre, a lo no comprobable aunque tal vez vivido o soñado. En este libro, Argüello nos introduce en ese espacio que va de la física clásica a la mecánica cuántica, de la conciencia como creadora de la realidad a la indeterminación de esa realidad. Este libro es a veces una introducción disimulada de la teoría cuántica y otras, en las más, relatos de amor. Un viaje por las rutas de la incertidumbre hasta llegar al instante de los milagros terrenales.

Quiero decir que cada uno de estos cuentos puede funcionar perfectamente como nouvelles. Son cuatro historias con un desarrollo narrativo que los acerca a la novela corta. No se espera al final de cada uno de ellos ningún desenlace que nos sorprenda, ni ningún inicio que necesitemos completar con un final imprevisto. De los cuatro me quedo con tres, si tuviera que recomendarlos efusivamente. El que no me gustó se titula ‘Un cuento inglés’. Es un homenaje a Borges y me perdí, tal vez por ser demasiado borgeano. No pasa lo mismo con los otros tres. Tres enormes relatos a caballo entre lo que vemos y tocamos y lo que vemos, tocamos y alcanzamos para siempre."
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...

"Al escritor trasandino Javier Argüello (52 años, nacido en Santiago de Chile), le interesa tanto la narrativa como la física. Un cruce que a simple vista parece improbable, pero él le encontró una vuelta. Como toda historia sucede en un tiempo y espacio, estos son elementos que de alguna manera pueden ser puestos en entredicho. Dicho de otro modo, la realidad, todo lo que vemos es algo que se construye con la participación subjetiva de cada cual. Así lo reconoce a Culto.

“El cruce entre la narrativa y la física es un tema que empecé a trabajar hace varios años, cuando entendí que la teoría cuántica abría la puerta a la idea de que la conciencia participa en la construcción de la realidad. En ese momento estaba estudiando el modo en que los relatos que nos contamos construyen nuestra idea de mundo, y me pareció muy sugerente el hecho de que hubiera una teoría científica que planteara cuestiones como esta. Estos cuentos son el resultado de la última exploración que he llevado a cabo en ese territorio de frontera”.

Así nacieron los Cuatro Cuentos Cuánticos, que el escritor acaba de publicar vía Random House, donde en 4 relatos aborda historias de personajes que en el paso del tiempo se ven enfrentados a diferentes situaciones. Como un hombre que asiste -a regañadientes- a una reunión con sus antiguos compañeros de colegio tras 30 años; un periodista que de estar en Ucrania de repente se encuentra en Londres con un escritor del siglo XIX; o la locura que un escritor experimenta junto a un paciente de un manicomio.

En los cuentos, hay una idea de que la conciencia -o el punto de vista particular- es de algún modo, generadora de la realidad. ¿Lo pensaste así?

Es algo que en la narrativa resulta innegable. Un relato no cobra sentido por su correlación con ninguna realidad exterior, sino a partir de la cohesión y la coherencia del punto de vista escogido para narrarlo. Lo interesante es que, al parecer, en la teoría cuántica, la realidad no termina de construirse, no termina de fijarse, hasta el momento en el que interviene la mirada del observador. Para la mecánica cuántica, eso que llamamos realidad no es más que un campo de probabilidades que sólo colapsa en una posibilidad concreta frente a la mirada concreta que un observador pone en juego.

¿Cómo equilibraste la precisión científica con la necesidad de crear historias atractivas y emocionantes? ¿Cuál consideras que es el punto óptimo entre ambas?

La clave que conecta ambas cuestiones es el punto de vista como creador de la realidad. Y en narrativa esa operación resulta ineludible, con lo que te diría que está presente en cada relato que leemos. La particularidad de estos cuentos radica en que la realidad construida juega con los propios límites de la realidad y acentúa el papel de la conciencia en el modo en el que ésta es moldeada. Pero al tratarse de historias, de artefactos narrativos, creo que lo que debe mandar es siempre la tensión dramática. No creo que se deba “ilustrar” una teoría, sino que hay centrarse en la acción dramática y dejar que sea el diseño estructural el que refleje los posibles saltos cuánticos.

¿Qué dificultades encontraste al escribir estos cuentos? ¿Hubo algún concepto o idea que te costara especialmente transmitir?

Todas tienen su dificultad, pero no sé si mayor que la que nos encontramos siempre que nos enfrentamos a la construcción de un relato. Es verdad que algunas de las ideas que están detrás de estos cuentos son un poco más difíciles de digerir que las que juegan con reglas de nuestro mundo cotidiano. Pero, al menos en el modo en el que yo entiendo el funcionamiento de un relato, siempre se trata de construir un artefacto o un artificio que genere un efecto más profundo y duradero que el que podríamos alcanzar con una explicación. Ahí es donde radica el desafío.

En Un cuento inglés, hay un guiño a Borges. ¿Qué te impulsó a eso?

La verdad es que la historia de ese cuento involucra otro cuento con el que el protagonista se encuentra en Londres de una manera misteriosa, y que efectivamente está incluido en una antología de la literatura fantástica recopilada por Borges, Bioy Casares y Silvina Ocampo, con lo que se trató de una cuestión más bien fortuita. Lo que no es fortuito es que ellos se hayan interesado por la literatura fantástica, y en ese sentido evidentemente hay una confluencia de intereses con las exploraciones que yo llevo a cabo.

En el cuarto cuento se desdibuja el límite entre la ficción y la realidad, entrando en una ciencia ficción. ¿Te consideras escritor de ciencia ficción?

Yo no diría que el género del cuarto cuento es la ciencia ficción, en el sentido de que no es una ficción propiamente científica. Creo que se corresponde más bien con lo que se define como ficción fantástica tal y como acabamos de mencionar a raíz de la antología de Borges, Bioy Casares y Silvina Ocampo. Pero por supuesto que las clasificaciones nunca son una cosa cerrada.

¿Cómo ves la relación entre la ciencia y el arte? ¿Crees que son disciplinas complementarias o que tienen objetivos completamente diferentes?

Creo que cualquier aproximación a la realidad es una ficción, entendiendo por ficción el ordenamiento caprichoso que un determinado relato hace de una realidad a la que no nos es posible acceder de manera directa. En ese sentido el de la ciencia también es un relato. La diferencia es que la ficción científica se define como no ficticia, inaugurando así la noción de lo real. Y es justamente esa noción la que la teoría cuántica está poniendo en jaque hoy en día. Hace un tiempo atrás un físico muy reputado me decía que, a nivel subatómico, la idea de una realidad objetiva sencillamente no es defendible. Y en ese sentido creo que sí, que las miradas de la ciencia y de la literatura se complementan y se enriquecen de numerosas maneras. En última instancia, con diferentes metodologías y criterios de validación, ambas se proponen entender y explicar el mundo que nos rodea.

¿Qué esperas que los lectores se lleven de la lectura de tus cuentos? ¿Deseas que reflexionen sobre la naturaleza de la realidad, que se interesen más por la ciencia o simplemente que disfruten de una buena historia?

Me encantaría que pasaran las tres cosas. Me encantaría que, a través del disfrute de una buena historia, los lectores tengan la posibilidad de cuestionarse la naturaleza de la realidad para comprender que no es algo dado, objetivo e inmutable como solemos creer, sino que está en permanente construcción, y que en ese sentido todos tenemos una cuota de responsabilidad en el modo en que se manifiesta. A fin de cuentas, y como te decía, somos las historias que nos contamos.

¿En tu experiencia laboral has podido compartir con el trabajo de los físicos?

Sí. He tenido ocasión de visitar dos veces el acelerador de partículas del CERN, en Ginebra, y participo de algunos foros multidisciplinares con algunos físicos a partir de los cuales hemos desarrollado diferentes instancias de colaboración mutua. El espíritu que las gobierna es siempre el de enriquecer nuestra mirada sobre el mundo poniendo en común nuestras diferentes aproximaciones. De hecho, en octubre llega a Chile un breve ensayo titulado “Los límites de la ciencia” en el que cuento la primera de mis visitas al CERN y las reveladoras conversaciones mantenidas con los físicos que allí trabajan. En noviembre he sido invitado al festival Puerto de Ideas, en Valparaíso, para hablar de todos estos temas.

¿Consideras este libro una introducción a la mecánica cuántica?

No, no. Este libro es una exploración narrativa de algunas de las posibles implicaciones que la teoría cuántica despliega acerca del modo que tenemos de entender la realidad. Parafraseando a un físico chileno con el que tuve ocasión de conversar, se trata de un intento de que la gente pueda aproximarse a los misterios de esas implicaciones sin tener que entender de ecuaciones, así como puede disfrutar de la música sin tener que entender lo que es una corchea."]]></description>
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Why are city dwellers worldwide walking on average ten percent faster than they were a decade ago? Why are newcomer immigrant groups so often maligned when migration has always constituted civilization? To analyze and understand the depth of the reasons, Thomas Nail suggests that it serves us well to turn to a philosophy of movement. Synthesizing and extending many years of his influential work, The Philosophy of Movement is a comprehensive argument for how motion is the primary force in human and natural history.

Nail critiques the bias toward stasis at the core of Western thought, asking: what would a philosophy that began with the primacy of movement look like? Interrogating the consequences of movement throughout history and in daily life in the twenty-first century, he draws connections and traces patterns between scales of reality, periods of history, and fields of knowledge. In our age of rapid movements shaped by accelerating climate change and ensuing mass global migration, as well as ubiquitous digital media, Nail provides a contemporary philosophy that helps us understand how we got here and how to grapple with these interlocking challenges.

With a foreword by philosopher Daniel W. Smith, The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction is a must-read for scholars and students not only of philosophy but also history, anthropology, science and technology studies, mobility studies, and other fields across the humanities and social sciences.

AUTHOR

Thomas Nail is distinguished scholar and professor of philosophy at the University of Denver. He is author of many books, including Matter and Motion: A Brief History of Kinetic Materialism; Lucretius III: A History of Motion; Theory of the Object; and Being and Motion.

Daniel W. Smith is professor of philosophy at Purdue University. He has translated, from the French, books by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Klossowski, Isabelle Stengers, and Michel Serres.

PRAISE

"Nail is one of those contemporary thinkers who is trying to chart a path for what the philosophy of the future might be, and he has a vision of philosophy that is as unabashedly systematic as Hegel or Leibniz." —Daniel W. Smith, from the Foreword

"The Philosophy of Movement brings an unrelenting focus on motion as fundamental. How might we think, what new concepts might we create, if motion is fundamental rather than relative to something stable? Here, Thomas Nail doesn’t disappoint as he invents a profusion of new concepts, retells human history as a history of motion, and proposes an ethics that takes motion seriously." —Brent Adkins, author of Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: A Critical Introduction and Guide"]]></description>
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    <title>'The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction' with Thomas Nail - YouTube</title>
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https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917456/the-philosophy-of-movement/

About 'The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction': 

Why are city dwellers worldwide walking on average ten percent faster than they were a decade ago? Why are newcomer immigrant groups so often maligned when migration has always constituted civilization? To analyze and understand the depth of the reasons, Thomas Nail suggests that it serves us well to turn to a philosophy of movement. Synthesizing and extending many years of his influential work, The Philosophy of Movement is a comprehensive argument for how motion is the primary force in human and natural history.

Nail critiques the bias toward stasis at the core of Western thought, asking: what would a philosophy that began with the primacy of movement look like? Interrogating the consequences of movement throughout history and in daily life in the twenty-first century, he draws connections and traces patterns between scales of reality, periods of history, and fields of knowledge. In our age of rapid movements shaped by accelerating climate change and ensuing mass global migration, as well as ubiquitous digital media, Nail provides a contemporary philosophy that helps us understand how we got here and how to grapple with these interlocking challenges.

With a foreword by philosopher Daniel W. Smith, The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction is a must-read for scholars and students not only of philosophy but also history, anthropology, science and technology studies, mobility studies, and other fields across the humanities and social sciences. "]]></description>
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