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Abstract Clarissa Ai Ling Lee

The global objective of my dissertation is to work towards the creation of a critical science studies epistemology that tries to integrate areas of dialectics, the process of fictionalizing, and a qualitative presentation of quantitative data by starting from thinking about the place of a heterogenous physics epistemic modality, the Standard Model, in experimental and theoretical speculation. In my presentation for the winter school, I hope to discuss the contestation between the temporal constraints and delimitations of micropolitical epoche of experiments with that of macro-political ideology through the examination of experimental-instrumental designs that conduct measurements within different layers of temporal settings. The instruments consist of early nuclear physics accelerators and detectors i.e. nuclear reactors, cloud chambers, cyclotrons, betatrons, and synchrotrons, as well as later high energy particle accelerators and their accompanying detectors, such as the linear accelerators, the circular accelerators, photon colliders, among others, leading up to the Large Hadron Collider. I argue that there is a confluence in the different instrumental eras, each with their own form of speculative-experimental activity, taking into account the developments in particle physics accelerators that emphasize the temporal differentiation of heavy nucleon and composite particulate interactions, central to the activities of earlier accelerators, to light and almost/are massless entities of current-day accelerators. I will be drawing selectively through the phenomenological (and non/anti-phenomenological) traditions of Kant, Husserl, Bergson, Whitehead, Deleuze and Guattari, de Landa, Massumi and Barad on the question of event, the act of becoming, apprehension, and transcendental objectivity to highlight the philosophical purpose of a close reading of these instrumental-computational relationality and interactions.

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