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P_3_18 — Lacan Mirror Stage: Subjectivity, Language, and the Imaginary Order

Jacques Lacan (1901–1981), French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, was the most original and controversial interpreter of Sigmund Freud's legacy in the 20th century. Lacan's central project was to "return to Freud" — to r

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V_2_22 Mathematics & Information

V_2_22 — Imaginary Numbers: From "Truly Imaginary" to Physically Necessary

In 1545, the Italian mathematician Girolamo Cardano encountered expressions involving the square root of a negative number while solving cubic equations in his Ars Magna. He used the expression — computed with it, obtain

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Q_4_28 Speculative Cosmology & Physics

Q_4_28 — Tachyon Physics: Theoretical Possibility

Tachyons are hypothetical particles that travel faster than the speed of light, first given rigorous theoretical treatment by Gerald Feinberg of Columbia University in 1967. The concept builds on a peculiar feature of sp

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InterDoc: Productive Fictions — Real Effects from Nonexistent Referents

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ZA_2_10 Physics & Quantum

ZA_2_10 — Tachyons and Superluminal Physics

Tachyons — hypothetical particles that always travel faster than light — have fascinated physicists since Gerald Feinberg's 1967 formalization, yet no tachyon has ever been observed. In special relativity, a massive part

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