... of this essay writes across three registers: the first addresses what contemporary discoveries about black holes attempt to tell us about “matter,” or what matters; the second is what Hammonds sought to disrupt or prove impossible in her essay; and the third is a meditation on the place of “elementary particles...

... fferences 29 and movements that seemed to make the very tissue ofLapidoth's consciousness" (849). What these passages have in common is a focus on the reduction or contraction of lived experience, presumably available for a richerblooded or fuller mimesis, into some more elementary, particle-like forms 4...

....” cept. Of every concept, beginning with —Apter the concepts of being and time. —Derrida Physicists are obsessed with time. In her study of particle physicists in the United States and Japan, Sharon...

.... For example, consider the wave-particle duality paradox originating from early-twentieth-century observations conducted by experimenters who reported seemingly contradictory evidence about the nature of light: under certain experimental circumstances, light manifests particle-like properties and under...

... : Norton , 1973 . 312 - 14 . Lévi-Strauss Claude . The Elementary Structures of Kinship . Rev. ed. Trans. Bell James Harle and Von Sturmer John Richard . Boston : Beacon , 1969 . Mauss Marcel . The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies. Trans...

... follows Marx in arguing, it is "not that capitalism causes distinctively modern forms of sociation to arise, but that it is itself a distinctively modern form of sociation" (57). The advent of capitalism thus "entailed-or was-a revolution in what might without any exaggeration be called the elementary...