Quantum History

Slavoj Zizek's treatise on how insights from the field of Quantum Physics allow a total re-invention of how we think about history.

Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Introduction: Materialism and Quantum Criticism I - Universal: Collapse Comes First 1 Why A Hegelian Needs Quantum Mechanics 2 Why Quantum Mechanics Needs Hegel 3 Noncommutativity in the Symbolic and in the (Quantum) Real II - Particular: From Hegel to Heidegger... and Back 1 Names for Finitude: Hegel, Heidegger, Pippin 2 The Night of the World 3 Heidegger's Politics of Finitude III - Singular: Politics in a Quantum World 1 The Hologram of Conflicting Universalities 2 Can Artificial Intelligence Really Think? 3 The Politics of Vocation Variations Variation 1 - Frozen Beauty: Rovelli, Deleuze and the Stoics Variation 2 - No Substitute for True Universals Variation 3 - Pure Voice, Pure Sound: Beethoven, Globokar, Act Variation 4 - Acts of Reconciliation Variation 5 - Moderately Conservative Communism Variation 6 - The Painted Void Variation 7 - The Many Monsters of Cinema Variation 8 - Sexual Superpositions Variation 9 - Make The Kitchen Maid King Conclusion: The Hunger to Be Something