ARKADY PLOTNITSKY

Curriculum Vita

(Short Version)

(The complete version of CV is available upon request)

Theory and Cultural Studies Program

Department of English

Purdue University

500 Oval Drive, Heavilon Hall, Room 324

West Lafayette, IN 47907

CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION

Distinguished Professor

Director of Theory and Cultural Studies Program

Purdue University

Other Purdue Affilliations: Philosophy and Literature Program,

Comparative Literature Program

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania

M.S. Mathematics, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) State University (Russia)

HONORS AND AWARDS (most recent)

2015 Distinguished Professorship, Purdue University

2015 (Oct.) Short Term Visitor, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada

2014 The College of Liberal Arts Discovery Excellence in the Humanities Award, April 2014

2014 A Member of the Organizing Committee for the Workshop “Quantum probability and the mathematical modeling of decision making,” Fields Institute for Mathematics, University of Toronto, grant ($7,500) awarded in August, 2014, the Workshop held in March 2015, at the Fields Institute.

2013-16 Team member, the PUF (Partner University Fund) Grant ($167,000) awarded jointly to a 6-member team from Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense and Purdue University to pursue the project “Analytic and French Philosophy in the 20th century”

2011 (Spring) Fellow, Center for the Humanistic Studies, Purdue University

2008 (Nov.) Short Term Visitor, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada

2007 (Spring) Study in the Second Discipline (Biology) Award and Research Leave, Purdue University

2001-2006 University Faculty Scholar, Purdue University

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS (most recent)

2015-present Distinguished Professor of English and Theory and Cultural Studies

2000-2015 Professor of English and Theory and Cultural Studies, Purdue University

2008-2011 Co-director, Philosophy and Literature Program, Purdue University

1999-2008 Director, Theory and Cultural Studies Program, Purdue University

PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS

Continental philosophy, history and philosophy of mathematics and science; literary criticism and theory, modernity and postmodernity, British and European Romanticism, the relationships among literature, philosophy, and science.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS (authored)

2016

The Principles of Quantum Theory, from Planck’s Quantum to the Higgs Boson: The Nature of Quantum Reality and the Spirit of Copenhagen, Berlin & New York: Springer/Nature 2016

2012

Niels Bohr and Complementarity: An Introduction , Berlin & New York: Springer Scientific Publishers, 2012

2009

Epistemology and Probability: Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and the Nature of Quantum Thinking (Series Fundamental Theories in Physics), Berlin & New York: Springer Scientific Publishers, 2009

2006

Reading Bohr: Physics and Philosophy (Series Fundamental Theories in Physics ), Berlin & New York: Springer Scientific Publishers, 2006

2002

The Knowable and the Unknowable: Modern Science, Nonclassical Thought, and the “Two Cultures , ” Ann-Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2002

1994

Complementarity: Anti-Epistemology After Bohr and Derrida, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994

1993

In the Shadow of Hegel: Complementarity, History and the Unconscious , Gainesville, FL: University Presses of Florida, 1993

1993

Reconfigurations: Critical Theory and General Economy , Gainesville, FL: University Presses of Florida, 1993

BOOKS (edited)

2003

Idealism without Absolutes: Philosophy and Romantic Culture , co-edited with Tilottama Rajan, Albany, NY: SUNY Albany Press, 2003

1997

Mathematics, Science, and Post-Classical Theory, co-edited with Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997, originally published as a Special Issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (see below)

SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS (edited)

2015

Special Issue “Probing the Limits of Quantum Mechanics: Theory and Experiment,” Foundations of Physics, co-edited with Andrei Khrennikov , Sergei Polyakov, and Hans de Raedt

2014

Special Issue “Advances in Quantum Theory,” Physica Scripta T163, co-edited with G. Mauro d’Ariano, Craig Jaeger, and Andrei Khrennikov

2007

Special issue of European Romantic Review , “Scientia and Techne” (Spring 2007), co-edited with Emily Allen, Dino Felluga, and Geraldine Friedman

2005

Special Issue on Jacques Derrida, Postmodern Culture (May 2005), co-edited with Eyal Amiran and Paula Geyh

1994

“Mathematics, Science, and Post-Classical Theory,” co-edited with Barbara H. Smith, South Atlantic Quarterly , v. 94, No. 2, Spring 1995

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (peer reviewed)

2017

“The Paradoxical Interplay of Exactitude and Indefiniteness: Reality, Temporality, and Probability, from Hölderlin to Heisenberg to Musil,” in Physics and Literature, ed. Aura Heydenreich and Klaus Mecke, Berlin: DeGruyter, forthcoming (appr. 30 pages)

“On the Character of Quantum Law: Complementarity, Entanglement, and Information,” Foundations of Physics (2017) 47: 1115-1154

“Fragmentation, Multiplicity, and Technology in Quantum Physics: Bohr’s Thought from the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century,” Niels Bohr and Philosophy of Physics: Twenty-First Century Perspectives, ed. Jan Faye and Henry Folse, London: Bloomsbury, 2017, 179-204

“The Real and the Mathematical in Quantum Modeling: From Principles to Models and from Models to Principles in Physics and Beyond,” Frontiers of Physics, June 2017, 5, 14pp.

“Bernhard Riemann’s Conceptual Mathematics and Pedagogy of Mathematical Concepts,” in What is a Mathematical Concept?, ed. Elizabeth de Freitas, Nathalie Sinclair, and Alf Coles, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, 93-107

“Philosophical Skepticism and Narrative Incredulity: Postmodern American Fiction and Postmodern Theory,” Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction, ed. Paula Geyh, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, 63-81

“'Comprehending the Connection of Things:’ Bernhad Riemann and the Architecture of Mathematical Concepts,” From Riemann to Differential Geometry and Relativity, ed. Lizhen Ji, Athanase Papadopulous, and Sumio Yamada, New York: Springer/Nature, 2017, 329-366

2016

“Quantum Principles and Mathematical Models in Physics and Beyond,” The Palgrave Book of Quantum Models in Socieal Science,” ed. Emmanuel Haven and Andrei Khrennikov, London: Palgrave-MacMillan, forthcoming (appr. 25 pages).

“The future (and past) of quantum theory after the Higgs boson: a quantum-informational viewpoint,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 18 April 2016. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0239 (32 pages)

“The Visualizable, the Representable, and the Inconceivable: Realist and Non-Realist Mathematical Models in Physics and Beyond,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Volume 374 (1) 13 January (2016), 20150101(37pages)

2015

“Thinking without Being and Acts of Poetry in Shelley,” in Romanticism and Philosophy: Thinking with Literature , ed. Thomas Constantinesco and Sophie Laniel-Musitelli, London: Rutledge, 74-96

“Reality, Contextuality, and Probability in Quantum Physics and Beyond,” in Contextuality from Quantum Physics to Psychology, ed. Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov, J. Scott Jourdan, Ru Zhang, and Victor H. Cervantes, Singapore: World Scientific, 93-138

“’Wandering Beneath the Unthinkable:’ Organization and Probability,” International Romantic Review Volume 26 (3) 2015, 301-314

“The Calculable Law of Tragic Representation and the Unthinkable: Rhythm, Time, and Thought from Hölderlin to Deleuze,” in At the Edges of Thought: Gilles Deleuze and Post-Kantian Thought, ed. Craig Lundy and Daniela Voss, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 123-145

“Apollo’s Brain: Keats’s Hyperion Poems and the Sciences of the Brain,” in Romanticism and Knowledge, ed. Stefanie Fricke, Felicitas Meifert-Menhard, and Katharina Pink, Tier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 251-263

“ A Matter of Principle: The Principles of Quantum Theory, Dirac’s Equation, and Quantum Information,” Foundations of Physics October 2015, Volume 45 (10), 1222-1268

“Reality Without Realism: On the Ontological and Epistemological Architecture of Quantum Mechanics,” co-authored with Andrei Khrennikov, Foundations of Physics, October 2015, Volume 45 (10), 1269-1300

2014

“Reality, Causality, and Probability, from Quantum Mechanics to

Quantum Field Theory: Three Lectures of the Epistemology of Quantum Theory,” Quantum Foundations and Open Quantum Systems: Lecture Noted of the Advanced School (Joao Pessoa, Brazil 2012), International Journal of Modern Physics 25 (2014), 1430005 (82pages.) Also published as a book, Singapore: Worls Scientific, 521-603

“The Thinkable and the Unthinkable in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy: From Freud to Derrida,” The Undecidable Unconscious: A Journal of Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis Vol. 1 (2014): 53-84

“What is Complementarity?: Niels Bohr and the Architecture of Quantum Theory,” Physica Scripta, T163 (2014) 14002 (20pp, double columns)

“Are Quantum-Like Models Possible, or Necessary, Outside Physics?” Physica ScriptaT163 (2014) 14011 (19pp, double columns)

2013

“’It’s best not to think about it all—like the new taxes’: Reality, observer, and complementarity in Bohr and Pauli,” in Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations 6, ed. A. Khrennikov et al, Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2013, 22-47

“’Perhaps the biggest of all the big changes’: Measurement and multiplicity in quantum field theory,” in Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations 6, ed. A. Khrennikov et al, Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2013, 300-316

2012

“The Spacetimes of Nympheas: Matter and Multiplicity in Einstein, Monet, and Deleuze and Guattari,” in Revisiting Normativity with Deleuze, ed. Rosi Braidotti and Patricia Pisters, London: Bloomsbury, 2012, 37-50

“Dirac’s Equation and the Nature of Quantum Field Theory,” Physica Scripta 2012 014010 (9 pages, double-column)

“’To Be, To Be. What Does it Mean To Be?’: On Quantum-like Literary Models,” in Foundations of Probability in Physics 6, ed. G. M. D’Ariano et al, Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2012, 463-487

“On Foundational Thinking in Fundamental Physics: From Riemann to Heisenberg,” in Foundations of Probability in Physics 6, ed. G. M. D’Ariano et al, Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2012, 282-304

“The Singularity Wager: A Response to David Chalmers’ ‘The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis,’” Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 19, Numbers 7-8, 2012, 61-76

“Experimenting with Ontologies: Sets, Spaces, and Topoi with Grothendieck and Badiou,” Society and Space 30.2 (2012), 351-368

“ From Resonance to Interference: The Architecture of Concepts and the Relationships among Philosophy, Art, and Science in Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari,” Parallax 62 (2012), 19-33

“Adventures of the Diagonal: Non-Euclidean Mathematics and Narrative,” in Circles Disturbed: The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative, ed. Apostolos Doxiadis and Barry Mazur, Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 2012, 407-440

“’It’s best not to think about it all—like the new taxes’: Reality, observer, and complementarity in Bohr and Pauli,” in Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations 6, ed. A. Khrennikov et al, Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2012, 22-47

’Perhaps the biggest of all the big changes’: Measurement and multiplicity in quantum field theory,” in Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations 6, ed. A. Khrennikov et al, Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2012, 300-316

2011

“'Who Thinks Abstractly ': Quantum Theory and the Architecture of Physical Concepts,” in Advancement in Quantum Theory, ed. Andrei Khrennikov, et al. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2011, 207-220

“'Dark Materials to Create More Worlds’: On Causality in Classical Physics, Quantum Physics, and Nanophysics,” The Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience Vol. 8, no. 6 (2011), 983-997

“On Reasonable and Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Classical and Quantum Physics,” Foundations of Physics Vol. 41 (2011), 466-491

2010

“Psychoanalysis in Relation to Literature and Science,” in Routledge Companion to Literature and Science , ed. Bruno Clarke and Manuela Rossini, New York: Routledge, 2010, 203-214

“The Multiple and the Unthinkable in Postmodern Thought: From Physics to Justice,” Postmodern Culture 21.1 (2010) (on line)

“The Image of Thought and the Sciences of the Brain,” in Deleuze and Science, ed. Peter Gaffney, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 2010, 255-276

“The Art and Science of Experimentation in Quantum Physics,”inFoundations of Probability and Physics 5, ed. Andrei Khrennikov, et al. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2010, 148-172

2009

“'A Palace and a Prison on Each Hand:' Venice between Madness and Reason, from the Baroque to Romanticism,” in The Idea of the City, ed. Joan Fitzpatrick, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, 2009, 110-120

“Bernhard Riemann’s Conceptual Mathematics and the Idea of Space,” Configurations Vol. 17 (1-2) (2009), 105-130

“Bernhard Riemann,” in Deleuze’s Philosophical Lineage, eds. Graham Johns and Jon Roffe, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009, 190-209

“On Lacan and Mathematics,” Oeuvres & Critiques, XXXIV, 2 (2009), 131-151; previously published inLacan in America, ed. Jean-Michel Rabaté, New York: Other Press LLC, 2000

“Causality and Probability in Quantum Mechanics,” inFoundations of Probability in Physics 5, ed. Luidgi Accradi, et al. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2009, 150-161

2008

“Beyond the Visible and the Invisible: The Gaze and Consciousness in Diego Velazquez’s Las Meninas,” Journal of Consciousness Studies (November 2008), 83-118

“'The Shadow of the 'People to Come'’”: Chaos, Brain, and Thought in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s What is Philosophy? in Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, and Life, ed. Felicity Colman et al, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars, 2008, 166-194

2007

“Prediction, repetition, and erasure in quantum physics: experiment, theory, epistemology,” Journal of Modern Optics Vol. 54, Nos. 16–17, 10–20 November 2007, 2393–2402

“Différantial Atopologies, Mathematical and Ethico-Political: Light, Space, and Alterity in Derrida,” The European Legacy, Vol. 12, No. 4, 2007: 443–455

“Community and Singularity, with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man,” Legacies of Paul de Man, Marc Redfield, ed. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007, 129-162; an earlier version published in Romantic Circle Praxis Series (May 2005) (on line)

“Badiou’s Equations—and Inequalities: A Response to Robert Hughes's ‘Riven,’” Postmodern Culture, Vol. 17(3) March 2007 (on line)

“Prediction and Repetition in Quantum Mechanics: The EPR Experiment and Quantum Probability,” inQuantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundation 4, ed. Guillaume Adenier, et al. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2007, 185-194

“Minute Particulars and Quantum Atoms: The Invisible, the Indivisible, and the Unvisualizable in William Blake and Niels Bohr,” Special issue on “Blake and Visual Culture,” IMAGETEXT (2007) (on line)

“From Como to Copenhagen: The Beginnings and Ends of Complementarity,” inFoundation of Probability in Physics 4, ed. Guillaume Adenier, et al. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2007, 185-194

2006

“Chaosmologies: Quantum Field Theory, Chaos, and Thought in Deleuze and Guattari’s What is Philosophy?” Paragraph 29, Vol. 2 (2006), 40-56.

“EPR: How Subtle is the Lord and how is the Lord subtle?” Journal of Modern Optics 53, Nos. 16-17 (2006), 2293-2301

“Essential Ambiguity and Essential Influence: Rereading Bohr’s Reply to EPR,” Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations 3, ed. Guillaume Adenier, et al., Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006, 229-248

“A New Book of Numbers: On the Precise Definition of Quantum Variables and the Relationships between Mathematics and Physics in Quantum Theory,” Foundations of Physics Vol. 36 (2006), 30-60.

2005

“Manifolds: On the Concept of Space in Riemann and Deleuze,” in Virtual Mathematics, ed. Simon Duffy, Manchester, UK: Clinamen Press, 2005, 187-208

“When the Gods Dissolve like Clouds:” Modernism, Modernity, and the Space of Literature,” in The J. Hillis Miller Reader, ed. Julian Wolfreys, Staford University Press, 2005, 220-226

“’This is an Extremely Funny Things, Something Must be Hidden behind that’: Quantum Waves and Quantum Probability with Erwin Schrödinger” in Foundations of Probability and Physics 3, ed. Andrei Khrennikov, Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2005, 388-408

2004

Différance of the World: Homage to Jacques Derrida,” Postmodern Culture (September 2004) (on line)

 “’In Principle Observable’: Werner Heisenberg’s Discovery of Quantum Mechanics and Romantic Imagination,” Parallax (2004), Vol. 10, no.3, 20-35

“Essentially Ambiguous: On the Nature of Language, the Epistemology of Modern Science, and the Relationships Between the ‘Two Cultures,’” in Discipline and Practice; The (Ir)Resistability of Theory, eds. Stephan Herbrechter and Ivan Callus, Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2004,

“On the Character of Bohr’s Complementarity,” in Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations 3, ed. Andrei Khrennikov, Växjo, Sweden: Växjo University Press, 2004, 767-781

“Writing Images, Images of Writing: Tom Phillips’s A Humument and Peter Greenway’s Textual Cinema” (co-authored with Paula Geyh), in Literature and Visual Technology: Writing after Cinema, eds. Julian Murphet and Lydia Rainford, London: Palgrave, 2004, 197-214

The Unthinkable: Nonclassical Theory, the Unconscious Mind, and the Quantum Brain,” in Brain and Being: At the Boundary between Science, Philosophy, Language, and Arts, eds. Gordon Globus, Karl Pribram and GiuseppeVitiello, Amsterdam: Benjamin, 2004

2003

“Mysteries without Mysticism and Correlations with Correlata: On Quantum Knowledge and Knowledge in General,” Foundations of Physics November 2003 ,   Vol. 33, 1649-1689

“Algebras, Geometries, and Topologies of the Fold: Deleuze, Derrida, and Quasi-Mathematical Thinking, with Leibniz and Mallarmé,” in Between Deleuze and Derrida, eds. Paul Patton and John Protevi, New York: Continuum, 2003

“Beyond the Inconsumable: The Catastrophic Sublime and the Destruction of Literature in Keats and Shelley,” in Eating Romanticism: Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite, ed. Timothy Morton, London: Palgrave, 2003

“Difference,” in Glossalalia: An Alphabet of Critical and Theoretical Keywords, ed. Julian Wolfreys, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003

“Curvatures: Hegel and the Baroque,” in Idealism without Absolutes: Philosophy and Romantic Culture, eds. Arkady Plotnitsky and Tilottama Rajan, Albany: SUNY Albany Press, 2003, 113-134

Nonclassical Epistemology and Irreducible Probability in Quantum Mechanics,” Foundations of Probability and Physics 2, ed. Andrei Khrennikov, Växjo, Sweden: Växjo University Press, 2003, 499-533

2002

“Disciplinarity and Radicality: Quantum Theory and Nonclassical Thought at the Fin de Siècle, and as Philosophy of the Future,” in Disciplinarity at the Fin-de-Siècle, eds. Amanda Anderson and Joseph Valente, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002

“Quantum Atomicity and Quantum Information: Bohr, Heisenberg, and Quantum Mechanics as an Information Theory,” in Quantum Theory: Reexamination of Foundations 2, ed. Andrei Khrennikov, Växjö, Sweden: Växjö University Press, 2002

Topo-philosophies: Plato's Diagonals, Hegel's Spirals and Irigaray’s Multifolds,” in After Poststructuralism: Writing the Intellectual History of Theory, eds. Tilottama Rajan and Michael O’Driscoll, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002, 152-179

2001

“Reading Bohr: Complementarity, Epistemology, Entanglement, and Decoherence,” (lead article) in Decoherence and its Implications in Quantum Computation and Information Transfer (NATO Science Series), ed. Antonios Gonis and Patrice E. A. Turchy, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2001, 3-37

“Postmodernism and Postmodernity: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy, Culture,” in Introducing Literary Theories, ed. Julian Wolfreys, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001, 261-292

“Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake’s Minute Particulars,” Romantic Circles Practice Series (March 2001) (on line)

“From the (Ever) Complex to the (Never) Simple: A Response to R. Paul Yoder’s ‘Unlocking Language: Self-Similarity in Blake’s Jerusalem,’” Romantic Circles Practice Series (March 2001) (on line)

“The Effects of the Unknowable: Materiality, Epistemology, and the General Economy of the Body in Bataille,” Parallax Vol. 18 (Winter 2001), 16-28

2000

“Algebra and Allegory: Nonclassical Epistemology, Quantum Theory and the Work of Paul de Man,” in Material Events: Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory, eds. Barbara Cohen, Thomas Cohen, J. Hillis Miller, and Andrzej Warminski, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000, 49-92.

“Points and Counterpoints: Between Hegel and Derrida,” in Questioning Derrida, ed. Michel Meyer, Hampshire, GB.: Ashgate, 2000; previously published in Revue Internationale de Philosophie (Summer 1998)

1999

“Landscapes of Sibylline Strangeness: Complementarity, Quantum Measurement and Classical Physics,” Metadebates , eds. G. C. Cornelis, J. P. Van Bendegem, and D. Aerts, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999

“Techno-atoms: The Ultimate Constituents of Matter and the Question Concerning Technology in Quantum Mechanics,” Tekhnema: Journal of Philosophy and Technology (Winter-Spring 1999)

1998

“Zarathustra's Ladder: Hebraism, Hellenism and Practical Philosophy in Nietzsche,” Poetics Today (Summer 1998)

“A Dancing Arch: Formalism and Singularity in Kleist, Shelley, and de Man,” International Romantic Review (Winter 1998)

“On Derrida and Relativity: A Reply to Richard Crew,” Postmodern Culture (January 1998)

1997

“Curvatures of the Negative: Doctor Faustus from 1900 to 2001,” SAQ ( South Atlantic Quarterly ) (Fall 1997)

“‘But It Is Above All Not True': Derrida, Relativity and the `Science Wars,'” Postmodern Culture (January 1997)

“Complementarity, Idealization, and the Limits of the Classical Conceptions of Reality,” in Mathematics, Science and Postclassical Theory , eds. Barbara H. Smith and Arkady Plotnitsky, Durham, NC.: Duke University Press, 1997; previously published in SAQ ( South Atlantic Quarterly ) (Spring 1995); reprinted in Jacques Derrida, eds. David Roden and Christopher Norris, London: Sage, 2002

“Closing the I: Hegel, Derrida and the Enclosure of Metaphysics,” in Agonistics: Arenas of Creative Contest , eds. Janet Langstrum and lizabeth Sauer, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1997

“Un-Scriptable,” in Writing the Image After Roland Barthes , ed. Jean-Michel Rabaté, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997

1996

“The Maze of Taste: on Bataille, Derrida, and Kant,” in On Bataille , ed. Leslie Ann Boldt, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1996; previously published in Studies in 20th-Century Literature , Vol. 12, 22 (1988)

1995

“History as Complementarity,” in Intersections between Nineteen Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory , eds. David L. Clark and ilottama Rajan, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1995

“All Shapes of Light: The Quantum Mechanical Shelley,” in Shelley: Poet and Legislator of the World , eds. Stuart Curran and Betty Bennett, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995

“Re-: Reflecting, Re-membering, Re-collecting, . . . , Re-iterating, Re-etceterating (in) Hegel,” Postmodern Culture (May1995)

“The Vertigo of History: Hegelianism, Ivan Kireyevsky, and the Russian Critical Tradition,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts (Spring 1995)

1994

“The Medusa's Ear: The Question of Nietzsche, the Question of Gender, and Transformations of Theory,” in Nietzsche and the Feminine , ed. Peter J. Burgard, Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1994

1991

“The Violence of Contamination and the Violence of the Pure,” Cardozo Law Review (1991)

1987

“Interpretation, Interminability, Evaluation: From Nietzsche toward a General Economy,” in Life After Post-Modernism: Essays on Value and Culture , ed. John Fekete, London: Macmillan, 1987

1986

“The Historical Unconscious: In the Shadow of Hegel,” in Literature and History , ed. G. Saul Morson, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES (some peer reviewed)

2016

“Paradigm Theory,” in The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory , ed. Stuart Sim, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

“Critical Theory and Mathematics and Science,” in The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory, ed. Stuart Sim, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

2014

“Mathematics and Aesthetics,” in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 2 nd edition (originally published in 2000), New York and London: Oxford University Press (peer reviewed)

“Science and Aesthetics,” in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 2 nd edition (originally published in 2000) New York and London: Oxford University Press (peer reviewed)

2006

“Philosophy of Mathematics,” A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy , ed. John Protevi, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006

“Quantum Mechanics,” A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, ed. John Protevi, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006

“Science Wars,” A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, ed. John Protevi, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006

2004

“Philosophy and Narrative,” in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory , eds. David Herman, Manfred Jahn, and Marie-Laure Ryan, New York: Routledge, 2004 (peer reviewed)

“Science and Narrative,” in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory, eds. David Herman, Manfred Jahn, and Marie-Laure Ryan, New York: Routledge, 2004 (peer reviewed)

2002

“Bataille and Blanchot,” in Encyclopedia of Literary Criticism and Theory since 1940 , ed. Julian Wolfreys, Edinburgh/New York: Edinburgh University Press/Columbia University Press, 2002

2001

“Thomas Kuhn,” in Postmodernism: Key Figures, eds. Hans Bertens and Joseph Natoli, Oxford: Blackwell, 2001

REVIEW ARTICLES

2004

“Evolution and Contingency: Stephen Jay Gould’s The Structure of Evolutionary Theory,” a review article, Postmodern Culture (January 2004).

2001

“Derrida’s Futures,” a review article (Joseph G. Kronik, Derrida and the Future of Literature and Stuart Barnett, ed. Hegel After Derrida), Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History (Summer 2001)

1997

“Penrose’s Triangles: A Review of Roger Penrose's The Large, the Small, and the Human Mind , with a glance back at The Emperor's New Mind, The Shadows of the Mind, and The Nature of Space and Time,” Postmodern Culture (May 1997)

INTRODUCTIONS AND CONCLUSIONS TO VOLUMES AND COLLECTIONS

2014

“Introduction” to “Advances in Quantum Theory,” a special issue of Physica Scripta, co-authored with M. d’Ariano, G. Jaeger, and A, Khrennikov, Physica Scripta T163 (2014) 010301 (5pp. double columns)

“Afterword,” in Xin Wei Sha, Poiesis and Enchantment in Topological Matter, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

2007

“Romantic Organicism and Romantic Multiplicities,” European RomanticReview (January 2007), Special issue of European Romantic Review, ed. Emily Allen, Dino Felluga, and Geraldine Friedman

2003

“Conclusion: Without Absolutes,” in Idealism without Absolutes: Philosophy and Romantic Culture , eds. Arkady Plotnitsky and Tilottama Rajan, Albany: SUNY Albany Press, 2003

1996

“Reading Hyppolite with Hegel,” Foreword to Jean Hyppolite, Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of History, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996

1995

“Introduction: Networks and Symmetries, Decidable and Undecidable,” with Barbara Herrnstein Smith, in Mathematics, Science and Postclassical Theory, eds. Barbara H. Smith and Arkady Plotnitsky, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997, previously published in SAQ (South Atlantic Quarterly) (Spring 1995)

REVIEWS

2006

Review of Alexander Batthyany and Avshalom Elitzur, eds., Mind and its Place in the World: Non-Reductionist Approaches to the Ontology of Consciousness, Frankfurt, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2006, in The Journal of Consciousness Studies (September 2006).

Review of N. David Mermin’s It’s About Time: Understanding Einstein’s Relativity, in Foundations of Physics (July 2006)

2004

Review of Andrei Khrennikov’s Classical and Quantum Models and Freud’s Theory of The Unconscious Mind, Journal of Consciousness of Studies (Summer 2004)

2002

“Demonstration and Democracy: Review of Bruno Latour’s Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies,” Postmodern Culture (May 2002)

“The Quantum Brain and Its Doubles: Review of Guiseppe Vitiello’s My Double Unveiled,” Journal of Consciousness of Studies, 9, No.7 (2002)

2001

“Wrestling with Reality: A Philosopher Fights for a Diversity of World Views: A Review of Paul Feyerabend’s Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being,” Chicago Tribune, March 19, 2000

1999

“Quantum Leaper: A Review of Kenneth Johnson’s Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics,” Chicago Tribune, November 7, 1999

“Steadfast Souls: A Review of Martin Booth’s The Industry of Souls,” Chicago Tribune, October 23, 1999

“A Review of Jean-Michel Rabaté's The Ghosts of Modernity,” Modern Language Notes (June 1999)

“Math Master: A Review of Tom Petsinis’s Novel The French Mathematician,” Chicago Tribune, March 14, 1999

1998

“The Cosmic Internet: A Review of Lee Smolin’s The Life of the Cosmos,” Postmodern Culture (May 1998)

INTERVIEWS

2011

“Interview with Amir Alexander,” in Mathematics and Narrative (the online supplement), ed., Apostolos Doxiadis and Barry Mazur (Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 2011)

2004

“Thinking Difference: Interview with Julian Wolfreys,” in Thinking Difference: Critiques in Conversations, ” ed. Julian Wolfreys, New York: Fordham University Press, 2004

REPRESENTATIVE RECENT INVITED AND PLENARY LECTURES

2017

“On the Concept of Quantum State: From Bohr’s Atom to Quantum Automata,” Conference “Quantum and Beyond,” Conference “Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Technology,” Linnaeus University, Växjo, Sweden, June, 2017; also given at Conference “Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics 2017,” Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2017

“’The Text of Every Heart:’ Romantic Poetry and the Sciences of the Brain,” Annual Conference of American Comparative Literature Association, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 2017

“Demons of Chance: Thomas Pynchon’s Novels and the Philosophy of Randomness and Probability,” Conference “American Literature and the Philosophical,” University of Paris Diderot, Paris, France, April 2017.

“Structure, Sign, and Play AND the Discourse of Natural Sciences: The Hyppolite-Derrida Exchange and the Philosophy of Science,” “The Structuralist Controversy Conference,” the Johns Hopkins University, April 2017

2016

“Reality and (and beyond) Realism after Quantum Theory,” Conference “Metaphysics Today,” Paris, University of Paris 10, Nanterre, November 2016

“The Age of Riemann,” University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, November 2016

“The Most Beautiful Equation,” Conference “Aesthetic in Analytical and French Philosophy,” Purdue University, September 2016

“’ That which is not causal we cannot conceive of’”: Reality and Causality from the Tractatus to the Philosophical Investigation in Wittgenstein, with Lyotard,” Conference “Wittgenstein in France,” Paris, France, September 2016

“Complementarity and the Character of Physical Law,” Quantum Information Theory Group Workshop, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, June 2016.

“Three Great Divorces of Quantum Theory: Reality from Realism, Probability from Causality, and Locality from Relativity,” Conference “Quantum and Beyond,” Linnaeus University, Växjo, Sweden, June, 2016

“From Quantum Theory to Postmodernity,” English Lecture Series, Purdue Calumet, March 2016

2015

“Technology as Foundation, from the Quantum Informational

Viewpoint: The Future (and some Past) of Quantum Theory after the Higgs Boson,” The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada, Oct 2015.

“Logic and Alterity in Ethical Thought; After the Levinasian Revolution” The Annual Conference of NALS (Northern Americal Levinas Society), July 2015, also given at Conference, “Address and Argument: Levinas and Analytic Philosophy,” The Société Internationale de Recherches Emmanuel Levinas (SIREL) and New York University Paris, Paris, France, April 2015

“Technology as Foundation,” Conference “Quantum Theory: from foundations to technologies” (QTFT) at Linnaeus University, Växjo, Sweden, June, 2015.

“’From Chaos to the Brain: The Quantum-Field-Theoretical Model of Thought in What is Philosophy?” “Deleuze and Guattari Conference,” Athens, Greece, April 2015

“What does, and does not, work as a mathematical model, in physics and beyond?: From Lagrangian mechanics to Quantum Field Theory ,” International Workshop “Quantum Probability and the Mathematical Modeling of Decision Making,” The Fields Institute, University Toronto, March 2015

2014

“Event, Context, and Probability in Philosophy, Psychology, and Quantum Theory,” Winer Memorial Lectures, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, November 2014

“Mathematics Beyond Logic: Bernhard Riemann and the Architecture of Mathematical Concepts,” International Conference “Logic, Mathematics and Philosophy,” Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, Sept 2014

“'Wandering beneath the Unthinkable': Organization and Probability,” a special panel “Organizing the 19 th Century,” 2014 NASSR (Northern American Society for the Study of Romanticism) Conference, Washington, DC, July 2014

“Mathematics and Science in Analytic and Continental Philosophy,” The Summer School “Theoretical Toolkit,” Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Paris, France, June 2014

“A Matter of Principle: The Principles of Quantum Theory,Relativity, Dirac’s Equation, and Quantum Information,” Conference “Advances in Quantum Theory,” Linnaeus University, Växjo, Sweden, June 2014

“Probability without Causality in Literature and Physics, from Kleist to Heisenberg, and from Heisenberg to Musil,” Physics and Literature. Theory – Popularization – Aestheticization, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, May 2014

The Unspeakable and the Unthinkable, from Freud to Derrida and déjà là, Conference “The Undecidable Unconscious,” The New School, New York, NY, April 2014

2013

“On the Concept of Quantum Field: From Reality to Probability,”Conference “Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics 2013,” Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2013

“Complementarity Beyond Physics and Physics Beyond Complementarity,” Conference “Advances in Quantum Theory,” Linnaeus University, Växjo, Sweden, June 2013

“Are Quantum-Like Models Possible or Necessary Outside Physics?” Conference “Advances in Quantum Theory,” Linnaeus University, Växjo, Sweden, June 2013

“’The Measure of the Universe’: Science, Probability, and Romantic Imagination,” Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, May 9, 2013; an earlier version given at Purdue University, September 2012

“Mallarmé, Mathematics, and Modernism,” Workshop “Mathematics, Philosophy, and Literature,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 2013

2012

“The Topology, Geometry, and Physics of Desire,” École Normal Supérieure, Paris France, November 2012

“Ontology, Logics, and Ethics in Levinas, Badiou, and Analytic Philosophy,” École Normal Supérieure, Paris France, November 2012

“Beyond the Imageless: The Unhinging of Being and the Poetry of Action in Shelley,” Conference “Romanticism and Philosophy,” Lille 3 University, Lille, France, September 2012

Series of Three Lectures of the Epistemology of Quantum Theory, “Reality, Causality, and Probability from Quantum Mechanics to Quantum Field Theory,” at the Summer school on “Open Systems, Quantum Foundations, and beyond the Quantum,” University of Paraibo, Joao Pessoa, Brazil, August 2012

“From the Correspondence Principle to Dirac’s Equation,” Conference “Quantum Theory; Reconsideration of Foundations 7,” Linnaeus University, Växjo, Sweden, June 2012

2011

“Of ‘Points, Lines, and Planes,’ and ‘Tables, Chairs, and Beer Mugs’ in Mathematics, Philosophy, and Art,” Seminar “Folds, Networks, Fissures: Topological Thinking in Philosophy, Art and Literature,” The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, December 2011

A Two Day Workshop with Arkady Plotnitsky, co-organized by the Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy (CPPE) and the QDT (Quantum Decision Theory) Group Thursday the 17 th and Friday the 18 th of November, 2011 University of Leicester, UK

“What is Quantum Field Theory, Technologically, Mathematically, and Philosophically,” Conference “Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics 2011,” Prague, Czech Republic, July 2011

“On Foundational Thinking in Fundamental Physics,” Conference “Foundations of Probability in Physics 6,” Linnaeus University, Växjo, Sweden, June 2011;

“’Gleams of a Remoter World:’ Romantic Thought and the Physics of Light,” University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, March 2011

2010

“ Composition, Experimentation, and Conceptuality in Art, Science, and Philosophy: Kandinsky, Heisenberg, and Deleuze and Guattari,” Columbia College, Chicago, November, 2010

“From Physics to Justice: On the Character of Postmodern Thought,” Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, November 2010

“Materiality and Multiplicity: Postmodern Thought, Scientific and Philosophical,” University of California, Irvine, October 2010

“The Spacetimes of Nympheas: Matter and Multiplicity in Einstein, Monet, Lautman, and Deleuze,” 3d International Deleuze Studies Conference, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, July 2010

“’Who Thinks Abstractly’: Quantum Theory and the Architecture of Physical Concepts,” Conference, Advancement in Quantum Theory, Linnaeus University, Växjo, Sweden, June 2010

“Why Mathematics is Literary and Why Literature is Mathematical?” Conference on Literature and Mathematics, Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, Scotland, May 2010

“Experimenting with Ontologies: Mathematics and Politics in Deleuze and Badiou,” Conference “Deleuze and Politics,” Purdue University, April 2010

2009

“Non-Euclidean Mathematics and Non-Euclidean Narrative,” Lecture and Seminar at Summer School on Mathematics and Narrative, Central European University, Budapest Hungary, July 2009

“On the Reasonable and Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Classical and Quantum Physics,” Pavia University, Pavia, Italy, July 2009

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