| ID | 175130 |
| Title Proper | To ‘see’ is to break an entanglement |
| Other Title Information | Quantum measurement, trauma and security |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Fierke, K M ; K M Fierke ; Mackay, Nicola |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article seeks to explore the quantum notion that to ‘see’ an entanglement is to break it in the context of an ‘experiment’ regarding the ongoing impact of traumatic political memory on the present. The analysis is a product of collaboration over the past four years between the two authors, one a scholar of international relations, the other a therapeutic practitioner with training in medical physics. Our focus is the conceptual claim that ‘seeing’ breaks an entanglement rather than the experiment itself. The first section explores a broad contrast between classical and quantum measurement, asking what this might mean at the macroscopic level. The second section categorizes Wendt’s claim about language as a form of expressive measurement and explores the relationship to discourse analysis. The third section explores the broad contours of our experiment and the role of a somewhat different form of non-linear expressive measurement. In the final section, we elaborate the relationship between redemptive measurement and breaking an entanglement, which involves a form of ‘seeing’ that witnesses to unacknowledged past trauma. |
| `In' analytical Note | Security Dialogue Vol. 51, No.5; Oct 2020: p.450-466 |
| Journal Source | Security Dialogue Vol 51 No 5 |
| Key Words | Trauma ; Memory Mapping ; Quantum Measurement ; Seen and Unseen ; Transgenerational Entanglement |