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    Implications of TextualityTimothy Morton

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    What Materialism Isnt

    Field Ion Micograph of tungsten atomsWheel without wheelWilliam BlakeDavid Bohm, Basil Hiley, Antony Valentini, Anton Zeilinger

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    What Materialism Isnt

    Field Ion Micograph of tungsten atoms

    David Bohm, Basil Hiley, Antony Valentini, Anton Zeilinger

    Newtonmechanism

    point particlesmetalanguagepredictable

    Relativity

    theoryworld tubes

    Quantum theoryturbulent vortices

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    What Materialism Isnt

    David Bohm, Basil Hiley, Antony Valentini, Anton Zeilinger

    Newtonmechanism

    Relativity

    theoryworld tubes

    Quantum theoryturbulence

    Essentialist organicism

    Nonessentialist organicism

    Nonorganic essentialism

    Nonorganic nonessentialism?

    Jacques Derrida, Alfred North Whitehead, Michel Serres

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    Implication vs. EnactmentFrancisco Varela, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch, The Embodied Mind

    (MIT, 1992) F.R. Leavis, The Living Principle (Chatto and Windus, 1975)David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order(Routledge, 2008)

    textualityunicity

    ParmenidesZenoDerrida

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    ImplicationStructure (syntax, lineation, stanza form, marks vs. nonmarks)Texture (rhythm, rhyme) Perception (imagery, tropes (spin)Irony (gapsploitation (!)) David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order(Routledge, 2008)

    relative autonomycarrier wave

    holism vs. holographicontology

    hot cool

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    ImplicationIt was a hard thing to undo this knot.The rainbow shines but only in the thoughtOf him that looks. Yet not in that alone,For who makes rainbows by invention?And many standing round a waterfallSee one bow each, yet not the same to all,But each a hand's breadth further than the

    next.The sun on falling waters writes the textWhich yet is in the eye or in the thought.It was a hard thing to undo this knot. Gerard Manley Hopkins, It was a Hard Thing,Selected Poetry, ed. Catherine Phillips (Oxford UP, 1998).

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    Enactment and EnactionEarth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could not pass by A sight so touching in its majesty; This City now doth, like a garment, wearThe beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lieOpen unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill; Neer saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster BridgeThe Major Works, ed. Stephen Gill (Oxford UP, 2008).

    the fact is made present

    as a realized state in the

    reader's consciousness byan expressive use of thecarry-over (the lying

    open is enacted) F.R. Leavis, The Living Principle

    (Chatto and Windus, 1975), 118

    Francisco Varela, Evan

    Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch,The Embodied Mind(MIT, 1992)

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    ImplicationIt was a hard thing to undo this knot.The rainbow shines but only in the thoughtOf him that looks. Yet not in that alone,For who makes rainbows by invention?And many standing round a waterfallSee one bow each, yet not the same to all,But each a hand's breadth further than the next.The sun on falling waters writes the textWhich yet is in the eye or in the thought.It was a hard thing to undo this knot.

    Gerard Manley Hopkins, It was a Hard Thing,Selected Poetry, ed. Catherine Phillips (Oxford UP, 1998).

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    What Materialism Isnt

    Field Ion Micograph of tungsten atoms

    David Bohm, Basil Hiley, Antony Valentini, Anton Zeilinger

    Newtonmechanism

    point particlesmetalanguagepredictable

    Relativity

    theoryworld tubes

    Quantum theoryturbulent vortices

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    Entanglement & NonlocalityAlbert Einstein, Nathan Rosen and Boris Podolsky,Can Quantum-Mechanical

    Description of Reality be Complete? Phys. Rev. 47 (1935), 777780.Yuri Aharanov and David Bohm, Significance of Electromagnetic Potentials in the

    Quantum Theory, Phys. Rev. 115.3 (August 1, 1959), 485491. John Bell, On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox, Physics 1 (1964), 195200.Alain Aspect, Philippe Grangier and Grard Roger, Experimental Realization of

    Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm Gedankenexperiment: A New Violation of BellsInequalities, Physical Review Letters 49.2 (2 July 1982), 9194.

    We have demonstrated a tunable Cooper pair splitter device that opens the way to

    studies of the entanglement of spatially separated mobile electrons. Because of itsremarkable splitting efficiency, such a device could provide a first test of the EPR

    paradox in the solid state if it were implemented with ferromagnetic drain contactsand noise measurements were performed on it. (963)

    L. Hofstetter et al., Cooper Pair Splitter Realized in a Two-Quantum-DotY-Junction, Nature 461 (October 15, 2009), 960963

    David Bohm, Basil Hiley, Antony Valentini, Anton Zeilinger

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