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Along, Across, and Against the Grain: On Spectral Densities and Margins of Play
Date details
- Date Saturday, 07/November/2026 13:00 bis 14:00
- Venue Haus der Kulturen der Welt
- Address John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten
Public transportation
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Underground
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U Bundestag
- U5
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U Bundestag
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Bus
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Haus der Kulturen der Welt
- 100
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Platz der Republik
- 100
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Katharina-Paulus-Str.
- 245
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Berlin, Kleiner Stern
- 100
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Lüneburger Str.
- 245
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Reichstag/Bundestag
- 100
- M41
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Berlin, Paulstr.
- 187
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S+U Hauptbahnhof/Washingtonplatz
- 245
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Alt-Moabit/Rathenower Str.
- 245
- 187
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Schloss Bellevue
- 100
- 187
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Lehrter Str./Invalidenstr.
- 123
- 142
- N40
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Haus der Kulturen der Welt
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Tram
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Lüneburger Str.
- M8
- M5
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Lesser-Ury-Weg
- M8
- M10
- M5
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Alt-Moabit/Rathenower Str.
- M10
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Clara-Jaschke-Str.
- M8
- M5
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Lüneburger Str.
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Train
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S+U Berlin Hauptbahnhof
- RE3
- RE4
- FEX
- RB10
- RE8
- RE20
- RE5
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S+U Berlin Hauptbahnhof
Along, Across, and Against the Grain: On Spectral Densities and Margins of Play
Cécile Malaspina, Muindi Fanuel Muindi, and Sha Xin Wei
What does the fertility of the void consist of? How does one pass from nothing to something, and back again, from the virtual to the actual, and from the actual to the virtual once more?
The grain of a piece of wood does not decide whether it breaks, only where and how. What if the same holds for the seeming emptiness of the void? Departing from quantum vacuum fluctuations—the momentary changes in the amount of energy in a point in space—this talk brings three thinkers together to explore different states and conditions for possibilities of becoming. Moving between philosophy, quantum physics, and Black radical thought, they ask what structures possibility, how something takes determinate form, and how individuality can be understood in relation to shared ground.
Each speaker approaches these questions from a different perspective. Cécile Malaspina reads medieval thinker Duns Scotus’s concepts of individuality, common nature, and the univocity of being. She inquires into this other way of understanding reality, which the onset of scientific thought occluded, and asks whether quantum mechanics today validates Scotus, challenging some fundamental scientific premises about individuality inherited from the fourteenth century. Sha Xin Wei explores how a state (of being) evolves over time through non-discrete topological dynamical systems—whereby conditions of possibility are not single ‘fixed’ positions or repeating loops but rather flow through a wider field of possibilities.
Muindi Fanuel Muindi sets the polymetric, polyphonic, and polycentric sonics of the Black radical tradition in apposition to quantum mechanics—an alternative repertoire of techniques of attunement that holds things in relation without reducing them.
This keynote results from a collective thinking practice that is the hallmark of the Indeterminacy Group and reflects ongoing conversations with its other members, Alicia Juarrero, Yagmur Denizhan, and Sonia de Jager.
After the keynote, visitors are invited to explore open questions and ideas on quantum-acoustics at the Pause on Quantum Matter lounge and reading corner in the Ceija Stojka Foyer outside the auditorium.
Safi Faye Hall
In English
Free entry
To help with our planning, we ask all Berlin Science Week guests to register for a Festival Centre Pass via pretix.eu. Access without a Festival Centre Pass is possible for Fertile Void visitors who do not wish or are unable to provide personal data.
The grain of a piece of wood does not decide whether it breaks, only where and how. What if the same holds for the seeming emptiness of the void? Departing from quantum vacuum fluctuations—the momentary changes in the amount of energy in a point in space—this talk brings three thinkers together to explore different states and conditions for possibilities of becoming. Moving between philosophy, quantum physics, and Black radical thought, they ask what structures possibility, how something takes determinate form, and how individuality can be understood in relation to shared ground.
Each speaker approaches these questions from a different perspective. Cécile Malaspina reads medieval thinker Duns Scotus’s concepts of individuality, common nature, and the univocity of being. She inquires into this other way of understanding reality, which the onset of scientific thought occluded, and asks whether quantum mechanics today validates Scotus, challenging some fundamental scientific premises about individuality inherited from the fourteenth century. Sha Xin Wei explores how a state (of being) evolves over time through non-discrete topological dynamical systems—whereby conditions of possibility are not single ‘fixed’ positions or repeating loops but rather flow through a wider field of possibilities.
Muindi Fanuel Muindi sets the polymetric, polyphonic, and polycentric sonics of the Black radical tradition in apposition to quantum mechanics—an alternative repertoire of techniques of attunement that holds things in relation without reducing them.
This keynote results from a collective thinking practice that is the hallmark of the Indeterminacy Group and reflects ongoing conversations with its other members, Alicia Juarrero, Yagmur Denizhan, and Sonia de Jager.
After the keynote, visitors are invited to explore open questions and ideas on quantum-acoustics at the Pause on Quantum Matter lounge and reading corner in the Ceija Stojka Foyer outside the auditorium.
Safi Faye Hall
In English
Free entry
To help with our planning, we ask all Berlin Science Week guests to register for a Festival Centre Pass via pretix.eu. Access without a Festival Centre Pass is possible for Fertile Void visitors who do not wish or are unable to provide personal data.
Meeting point: Safi Faye Saal
Booking: To help with our planning, we ask all Berlin Science Week guests to register for a Festival Centre Pass via pretix.eu. Access without a Festival Centre Pass is possible for Fertile Void visitors who do not wish or are unable to provide personal data.
Booking: To help with our planning, we ask all Berlin Science Week guests to register for a Festival Centre Pass via pretix.eu. Access without a Festival Centre Pass is possible for Fertile Void visitors who do not wish or are unable to provide personal data.
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