HIST 121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Michel Foucault, Panopticon, Panopticism
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-- all that is solid melts into air. So we begin with a hard science, physics, to see how the world we are in has lost its stable foundation. And the anxiety about this constitutes the major question in dostoevsky"s grand inquisitor. --basic concepts of the 19th-century physics: space-time, matter, forces, causality, they together provide a world picture which can be perceived by our senses or observed by refined tools. -- relativity and quantum theory are the two key stages of changing the classical physical world. --although einstein is major contributor to the theory of relativity, he does not accept the effectiveness of quantum theory. --the most important challenge is the concept of reality dissolves. -- the theory of relativity: the total change of the concepts of space and time. In einstein"s own words: one can express it as a joke if i allow all things to disappear, then according to newton the galilean inertial space remains.
