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Introduction by Monique David-MenardVideo
Monique David-Menard Introduction by Monique David-Menard
Monique David-Menard, Introduction by Monique David-Menard of the lecture Françoise Balibar, ‘What Is a Thing?’, part of the Workshop Chaos et jugement infini, ICI Berlin, 26 June 2009, video recording, mp4, 05:42
DiscussionVideo
Discussion
Discussion of the lecture Françoise Balibar, ‘What Is a Thing?’, part of the Workshop Chaos et jugement infini, ICI Berlin, 26 June 2009, video recording, mp4, 15:03
Talk by Françoise Balibar (Part 2)Video
Françoise Balibar (Part 2) Talk by Françoise Balibar (Part 2)
Françoise Balibar (Part 2), Talk by Françoise Balibar (Part 2) of the lecture Françoise Balibar, ‘What Is a Thing?’, part of the Workshop Chaos et jugement infini, ICI Berlin, 26 June 2009, video recording, mp4, 28:25, Part 2
Talk by Françoise Balibar (Part 1)Video
Françoise Balibar (Part 1) Talk by Françoise Balibar (Part 1)
Françoise Balibar (Part 1), Talk by Françoise Balibar (Part 1) of the lecture Françoise Balibar, ‘What Is a Thing?’, part of the Workshop Chaos et jugement infini, ICI Berlin, 26 June 2009, video recording, mp4, 28:56, Part 1
What Is a Thing?Video
Françoise Balibar What Is a Thing?
Martin Heidegger characterized modern science as the discovery that mathematics “touches upon things”, and does not simply provide a means for representing them.  It would seem that this characterization has become more and more appropriate, and this talk will describe how contemporary physics characterises its objects through mathematical concepts of symmetry related to nineteenth-century discoveries of group theory (Galois, Klein, Weyl) and non-Euclidean spaces (Riemann).
Physical objects are now defined through their symmetries, and even theories themselves are now built in order to satisfy specific invariance conditions and symmetries. Symmetry has thus become the main way of accessing the world as it is built in physics.Françoise Balibar is a historian of science and professor emerita of physics at the Université Denis Diderot, Paris VII. She has published numerous works on Albert Einstein, the theory of relativity, and on the history and epistemology of physics.
2009
Cultural InquirySeries
Cultural Inquiry Ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati
The series ‘Cultural Inquiry’ is dedicated to exploring how diverse cultures can be brought into fruitful rather than pernicious confrontation. Taking culture in a deliberately broad sense that also includes different discourses and disciplines, it aims to open up spaces of inquiry, experimentation, and intervention. Its emphasis lies in critical reflection and in identifying and highlighting contemporary issues and concerns, even in publications with a historical orientation. Following a decidedly cross-disciplinary approach, it seeks to enact and provoke transfers among the humanities, the natural and social sciences, and the arts. The series includes a plurality of methodologies and approaches, binding them through the tension of mutual confrontation and negotiation rather than through homogenization or exclusion. Christoph F. E. Holzhey is the Founding Director of the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry. Manuele Gragnolati is Professor of Italian Literature at the Sorbonne Université in Paris and Associate Director of the ICI Berlin.
2010