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This article considers the entanglements revealed by the recent and rapid influx of solar technology on the archipelago of Zanzibar. Following a technical failure that left the islands without electricity for three months in 2009–10, the Zanzibari government has pursued several avenues to increase energy autonomy, including solar power. However, the future of energy independence promised by solar development is complicated by a legacy of political conflict and new relationships of dependence and inequality. Drawing on interviews with domestic energy users, government officials, state engineers and NGO activists, and situated within the unique post-revolutionary context of Zanzibar, this article explores how solar innovations and investments contribute to the reimagining of social, economic and political entanglements while simultaneously reproducing persistent discourses of hierarchy, inclusion and exclusion.

This extended note deals with a pedagogical description of the entangled state of two particles, starting from first principles. After some general remarks about quantum mechanics and physical theories, the single particle case is discussed by defining state, uncertainty relations and wave function in the state space. The system of two particles is then considered, with its possible states, starting from the original papers by Einstein Podolsky Rosen and by Schroedinger. The quantum measurement problem is then introduced, together with its role in the entanglement state. Finally the orthodox solution and the relevant conclusions are drawn.

A review essay on books by (1) Patrick J. Deneen, The Odyssey of Political Theory: The Politics of Departure and Return (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000); (2) Dana Villa, Citizenship (Princeton, NJ: Princeton U Press, 2001); (3) S. Sara Monoson, Plato's Democratic Entanglements (Princeton, NJ: Princeton U Press, 2000); (4) John R. Wallach, The Platonic Political Art: A Study of Critical Reason and Democracy (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania U Press, 2001); & (5) Waller R. Newell, Ruling Passion: The Erotics of Statecraft in Platonic Political Philosophy (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000). Adapted from the source document.

AbstractDistance, it is often argued, is the only coherent and empirically adequate world-making relation that can glue together the elements of the world. This paper offers entanglement as an alternative world-making relation. Entanglement is interesting since it is consistent even with quantum gravity theories that do not feature space at the fundamental level. The paper thereby defends the metaphysical salience of such non-spatial theories. An account of distance (space) is the predominant problem of empirical adequacy facing entanglement as a world-making relation. A resolution of this obstacle utilizes insights from the Ryu–Takayanagi formula (a holographic relation between entanglement and spacetime) and Susskind and Maldacena's related ER = EPR conjecture (a relation between bell pairs and wormholes). Together these indicate how distance can be recovered from entanglement and thus carves the way for entanglement fundamentalism.

This article explores how matsutake, with its elusive characteristics
that evade human senses, guides humans to cultivate a sensitivity
to multispecies entanglements. It analyzes the concept of koto, developed
by psychiatrist Bin Kimura, to describe how people learn to notice the
events and happenings that a variety of beings are engaging in at every
moment, even though these practices often elude human consciousness.
Drawing examples from a manga series and two ethnographic cases
in Japan—a grassroots satoyama forest revitalization movement and
a forest biomass study—the article discusses koto as an 'ontology' of
entangled life. At the same time, koto raises questions about 'ontology',
as it indicates the traces of struggle in translating the term itself.

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This essay interrogates rising interest in the concept of "entanglement" by Black studies scholars. Beginning with its definition in theoretical physics, the essay moves to Karen Barad's "agential realism" to explore how diasporic ways of knowing are used to define and connect Black identities across space and time. The majority of the essay focuses on close readings of two contemporary novels on diasporic pasts, presents, and futures, Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing (2016) and Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's Kintu (2018), to contrast "vertical" and "horizontal" epistemologies, respectively. Although Gyasi's novel impressively and warmly constructs a Middle Passage epistemology between the United States and West Africa, this essay argues that its reliance on vertical relations between the past, present, and future is inimical to producing an equality of relations between Black subjects. However, Makumbi's novel, while defying traditional diasporic narrative structures by focusing on diaspora within East Africa, specifically Gandaland and Uganda, and by rejecting fixed hierarchies of relations for horizontal ones, in which all Black subjects are equally knowing and unknowing, offers a model for more equitable diasporic epistemologies in Black discourses.