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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
Book Series Cultural InquiryBook
Book Series Cultural Inquiry: Further Open Access Volumes
Some of the volumes in the series Cultural Inquiry that were published with Turia + Kant from 2010–18 are available as open access in the ICI Berlin Repository. See the relation tabs for the links.
2010