Weird Essentialism

Timothy Morton

irony, a sense of the concrete Simone de Beauvoir

1. E+MP

2. ~E+MP

4. EMP

3. ~EMP

E = essentialism; MP = metaphysics of presence

Mbius Strip

Non-orientable surface

I examine the word with a close-up lens. I examine it at close range: it has its own way of being granulated, ruffled, wrinkled, gnarled, iridescent, sticky. I try to respect its variations in elevation, its sheen, its seeds, and like an artisan I offer them so that they may be touched and eaten. The word must comfort the body. I cannot hurry. I will not rush the word. I want to lose no part of it. The word has its own organic life and to conserve that life is of the utmost importance. Chantal Chawaf

1. E+MP 2. ~E+MP Nature Eliminative materialism

4. EMP

3. ~EMP

E = essentialism; MP = metaphysics of presence

1. E+MP

2. ~E+MP Correlationism New materialisms

4. EMP

3. ~EMP

E = essentialism; MP = metaphysics of presence

1. E+MP

2. ~E+MP Correlationism New materialisms

4. EMP

3. ~EMP

E = essentialism; MP = metaphysics of presence

1. E+MP

2. ~E+MP

4. EMP

3. ~EMP Deconstruction

E = essentialism; MP = metaphysics of presence

1. E+MP

2. ~E+MP

4. EMP Weird essentialism

3. ~EMP

E = essentialism; MP = metaphysics of presence

Past

Future

This sentence is false This sentence is false is not a sentence Alfred Tarski This is not a sentence What constitutes pretense is that, in the end, you dont know whether its pretense or not. Jacques Lacan

Coherence

we have created a single quantum excitation in a macroscopic mechanical objectthe systems quantum coherence is sufficient to allow us to transfer this excitation multiple times between the qubit and the mechanical resonator. In this process, the system exists at times in an entangled qubitresonator quantum state. (700)
Aaron D. OConnell et al., Quantum Ground State and Single Phonon Control of a Mechanical Ground Resonator, Nature 464 (March 17, 2010), 697703

Coherence

Pulse sequence to generate coherent phonon states. With the qubit at its resting frequency, an on-resonance Gaussian pulse of fixed duration (5.0 ns) and variable amplitude is applied to the resonator. The qubit is then tuned to = 0 and left for an interaction time ; the qubit excited-state probability, Pe, is then evaluated. b, Measured Pe as a function of pulse amplitude and interaction time, . (702) Aaron D. OConnell et al., Quantum Ground State and Single Phonon Control of a Mechanical Ground Resonator, Nature 464 (March 17, 2010), 697703

Coherence

Qubit excited-state probability, Pe, as a function of interaction time, , and detuning, , showing state transfer between the qubit and the resonator, in which a qubit excitation is exchanged with a phonon in the mechanical resonator The red dashdot line is at the resonator frequency, fr. (701) Aaron D. OConnell et al., Quantum Ground State and Single Phonon Control of a Mechanical Ground Resonator, Nature 464 (March 17, 2010), 697703

irony, a sense of the concrete Simone de Beauvoir