All posts filed under: transversal

General Relativity and Self-Reference

Monday, July 23, 2007
by Joseph Weissman
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black holes / cosmos / differential geometry / einstein / evolution / transversal

Recent theories of galaxy-formation and cosmic evolution are inching closer to embracing the radical geometry of general relativity. In the decades since the publication of the Schwarzchild solutions to the Einstein field equations as given in his theory of general relativity, many physicists have staked and made their professional careers on the seemingly abstruse mathematical issues involved at the heart of the debate. Scholars have been fascinated and even sometimes ‘consumed’ by the study of […]

Transversality

Tuesday, July 10, 2007
by Joseph Weissman
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dreams / emergence / guattari / risk / transference / transversal

Wood Cells, Microscopy UK “Transference and interpretation represent a symbolic mode of intervention, but we must remember that they are not something done by an individual or group that adopts the role of the ‘analyst’ for the purpose. The interpretation may well be given by the idiot of the ward if he is able to make his voice heard at the right time, the time when a particular signifier becomes active at the level of […]

From Nonsense to Sense

Saturday, June 23, 2007
by Joseph Weissman
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culture / ontology / sense / transversal / wittgenstein

Towards a Meta-problematics of Sensitivity 0 / Preface Can we separate sense from situation? If sense is first broached in the rupture of presence– if sense is merely an immanent intelligibility– then accordingly we would wish to know which ontological rules, if any, sensibility obeys. But is sense actually structured this way? In attempting to answer this question, our first guiding principle shall be that not only is ontology inevitably economized and politicized as an […]