[Sci-tech-public] STS Brown Bag Lunch Talk by Perikles Monioudis, May 19th

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>STS Brown Bag Lunch Talk
>
>Speaker:  Perikles Monioudis, Writer-in-Residence at MIT
>
>"In the Ether. A Poetological Exploration of Science and a Scientific 
>Exploration of Poetics"
>
>Thursday, May 19th
>E51-191, 12-1:30
>
>In Monioudis' talk, poetics will be revived as a distinct category for 
>creating knowledge in the space between the exact sciences on the one hand 
>and the humanistic sciences on the other.  The term ether has been used in 
>very diverse contexts, i.e. in physics, philosophy, theology, and poetics. 
>All attempts to define the ether, "the fifth element" as the Greeks called 
>it diverge greatly. According to Aristotle, ether is the heavenly 
>Ur-matter in which all planets move, a notion that René Descartes expanded 
>on, postulating that ether penetrates everything. Whereas Einstein denied 
>the existence of the physical ether, quantum physics revived the term 
>again.  Monioudis introduces someone living in the ether: a  Poet and 
>Telegrapher at sea.
>
>Perikles Monioudis was born in Switzerland and lives in Berlin. His many 
>novels, novellas and collections of short stories have been translated 
>into several languages and have received many prizes, including the Swiss 
>Writers’ Association Prize and the Swiss Schiller Foundation Prize. 
>Monioudis is teaching German literature in the FL&L department this spring 
>semester.
>
>Perikles provided a translation of his paper  (see attached).
>Please feel free to bring your lunch.  We will provide coffee and dessert.
>See you on the 19th at noon!

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