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V. Bühlmann:
"Atomic Time and Quantum Literacy - Michel Serres´ Apologia for Science";
angenommen für Minnesota Review (2021).

Atomic Time and Quantum Literacy - Michel Serres´ Apologia for Science

This article introduces the reader to how in Michel Serres´ oeuvre, and in relation to what is here called "atomic time", there is in dispersed form a strong and underlying motif of quantum optics and quantum literacy to be found. To Michel Serres, the event of the atomic bombs demarcated a profound crisis not only for ethical and political reasons, but also for philosophical and principle reasons. This is because this event revealed how theory itself, henceforth, comes to act as a kind of bomb: in the sense that the constitutive relation for theory, between light, vision, and speculation, turns into an intellectual and yet material and physical force: proportional to how science is becoming a way of life, theory turns into an objective kind of violence of an in-human scale. Intellectual abstraction does not increase the critical distance between an objective viewpoint and the object in focus, it collapses this distance. To say that human kind has intellection is still a valid thing to say, Serres maintains in Times of Crisis (2014), but it has turned into a defective weapon in the service of a kind of conquest that threatens to bring eradication, and this must change urgently. This article brings together key concepts with respect to this from many of Michel Serres´ books, and sets them up into a constellation that aspires to shine a light upon some strong motifs that have not yet often been at issue in discourse on the work of this important and poetic philosopher - for whom poetics, mathematics, and the sciences are inextricably linked in the atomic domain of vicariate orders.

Paragraphs:
Room for an Epiphany of Sophia
Objective Skill, and the Abduction of Space from Time
Speaking for the Accused: the Domain of the Quasi
The World Poetics of a Current Present: Objective Vernaculars, Philosophical Language
Countering the Plaintiffs
How to Weigh the Importance of a Crisis?
Give the Word, in Public
Coda: Beyond the Academy, for the Academy. Theory and Quantum Optics

Atomic Time and Quantum Literacy - Michel Serres´ Apologia for Science

This article introduces the reader to how in Michel Serres´ oeuvre, and in relation to what is here called "atomic time", there is in dispersed form a strong and underlying motif of quantum optics and quantum literacy to be found. To Michel Serres, the event of the atomic bombs demarcated a profound crisis not only for ethical and political reasons, but also for philosophical and principle reasons. This is because this event revealed how theory itself, henceforth, comes to act as a kind of bomb: in the sense that the constitutive relation for theory, between light, vision, and speculation, turns into an intellectual and yet material and physical force: proportional to how science is becoming a way of life, theory turns into an objective kind of violence of an in-human scale. Intellectual abstraction does not increase the critical distance between an objective viewpoint and the object in focus, it collapses this distance. To say that human kind has intellection is still a valid thing to say, Serres maintains in Times of Crisis (2014), but it has turned into a defective weapon in the service of a kind of conquest that threatens to bring eradication, and this must change urgently. This article brings together key concepts with respect to this from many of Michel Serres´ books, and sets them up into a constellation that aspires to shine a light upon some strong motifs that have not yet often been at issue in discourse on the work of this important and poetic philosopher - for whom poetics, mathematics, and the sciences are inextricably linked in the atomic domain of vicariate orders.

Paragraphs:
Room for an Epiphany of Sophia
Objective Skill, and the Abduction of Space from Time
Speaking for the Accused: the Domain of the Quasi
The World Poetics of a Current Present: Objective Vernaculars, Philosophical Language
Countering the Plaintiffs
How to Weigh the Importance of a Crisis?
Give the Word, in Public
Coda: Beyond the Academy, for the Academy. Theory and Quantum Optics

Michel Serres, Atom Time and Atomic Time, Quantum literacy, quantum Optics, Times of Crisis, World Poetics of a Current Present, a Language of Many Portals, Objective Vernaculars, the Grand Récit, the Chronopedia, Biogea, Kategoria and Apologia