Epicurus’ Quantum Philosophy
(2025)
author(s): Tolga Theo Yalur
published in: Research Catalogue
Quantum methods, based on differential equations, proved invaluable for many applications, ranging from building complex machines to mapping the motions of celestial objects. They represent a decisive advance in humanity's ability to understand and quantify the multi-dimensional reality. Epicurus’ groundbreaking reflection in these fields influence the fields of applied mathematics today, profoundly shaping the scientific understanding of the solid forms that make up the universe.
Epicurus’ Quantum Philosophy
(2025)
author(s): Tolga Theo Yalur
published in: Research Catalogue
Quantum methods, based on differential equations, proved invaluable for many applications, ranging from building complex machines to mapping the motions of celestial objects. They represent a decisive advance in humanity's ability to understand and quantify the multi-dimensional reality. Epicurus’ groundbreaking reflection in these fields influence the fields of applied mathematics today, profoundly shaping the scientific understanding of the solid forms that make up the universe.
Department of Mockumentary Sciences
(2025)
author(s): Theo Yalur
published in: Research Catalogue
In the humanities and cultural sciences, the humor for fictionalizing a “truth” is described as “mocking”. Though it is more encountered in human sciences, this mode of structuration of events, happenings is also a significant concept in the STEM sciences. Mocking what is the kernel of truth of the Real, and what could be or what should be done about what is presented as the origin or the truth.
With trumpets?
(2025)
author(s): Fabio Bonizzoni
published in: KC Research Portal
A good deal of mystery still surrounds some aspects of Arcangelo Corelli's work. Firstly, although he was recognised as the main composer of Sinfonie in Rome around 1700, all of his repertoire of this genre, with the exception of one, seems to have disappeared; secondly, none of his survived orchestral scores contains evidence of the well documented practice of using winds, trumpets in particular, in conjunction with strings. To fill these gaps, speculations have tried to identify, amongst Corelli's works, not only the ones that might have originated as Sinfonie, but also those that might have included trumpets in their original form. This research moves along the same path but sets a slightly different goal: on the one hand it considers that it is virtually impossible to determine if any of Corelli’s survived compositions were originally conceived as Sinfonie with trumpets. On the other hand, it argues that through a study of Lulier's Santa Beatrice d'Este oratorio - a work that preserves the only genuine Corelli's Sinfonia that has survived - and through a comparative analysis of the two Handel's Roman oratorios, it is possible to approach closely the soundscape of Corelli's Sinfonie con trombe. To achieve that goal, in accordance with contemporary Roman examples, newly composed trumpet parts have been integrated into some movements of three concertos from Opus 6. The outcome can be listened in the audio-video material part of this paper. Whether the addition of trumpets on top of a string-only movement could have been improvised, and not planned beforehand with written parts, is open to further speculation.
La Mort Freudienne de Jean-Luc Godard
(2025)
author(s): Tolga Theo Yalur
published in: Research Catalogue
Jean-Luc Godard a décrit le film comme un “diagnostic médical”, remettrant les images d’archives silencieuses de Sigmund Freud avant son suicide avec une morphine. En gardant le fait de pertes mondiales en temps de guerre et de virus, cet article retrace les itinéraires du suicide dans la visite d’Agnès Varda du manoir de Godard en Suisse dans i (2017) avant sa mort et le suicide assistré de Godard.
The Film Pontypool (2009) and the Deconstruction of the Global Language
(2025)
author(s): Tolga Theo Yalur
published in: Research Catalogue
In these days when it is not understood that cinema is an entertaining, commercial monotheism as well as an art in the making, and originality is starting to disappear, whether in domestic or foreign cinema, we either wait for festivals or DVDs to see a film that comes with a ‘genuinely original idea’. The situation is even more worrying when it comes to a genre film. These thoughts, which I refer to the repetitive zombie and horror cinema, are inadequate in the film of deadly words, Pontypool (2009), where Canadian director Bruce McDonald and Tony Burgess, who adapted the script from his own novel, dismantle the structure of the Englishness that has permeated the global culture, can be considered as one of the original genre films, like those of George A. Romero, that strives to create thought and meaning rather than entertainment.
