Rhetoric’s diverse materiality: polythetic ontology and genealogy

Thirty Years of Composite Fermions and Beyond

“…4, due to Stormer. 31 Here the upper panel is plotted as a function of the effective magnetic field B * seen by composite fermions carrying two vortices, which simply amounts to shifting the upper panel leftward by an amount ∆B = 2ρφ 0 . A close correspondence between the data in the upper panel and the lower panel is evident.…”

“…The fractions n/(2pn±1) and their hole partners 1−n/(2pn±1) indeed are the prominently observed fractions in the LLL. g There is evidence [31][32][33][34] for ten members of the sequences ν = n/(2n ± 1) and six members of the sequences ν = n/(4n ± 1). The IQHE of composite fermions produces only odd denominator fractions; this can be traced back to the fermionic nature of composite fermions, which requires 2p Fig.…”

“…Each panel is taken from Pan et al 32 Source: H. L. Stormer, private communication. 31 to be an even integer. The CF theory thus provides a natural explanation for the fact that most of the observed fractions have odd denominators.…”

Where Did the Rhetoric of Science Go? A Double Review of Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science, Case Studies and Issues and Methods, a Two Volume Edited Collection by Randy Harris.

“…What the future offers, in my view, is rhetoric. We see it now as diverse in its eventful materiality, as Nathan Stormer (2016) says, but we also hope to see it as diverse in every conceivable way. I do not mourn expansion or integration nor denounce scholars who publish in philosophy, science studies, media studies, cultural studies, and rhetoric.…”

“…Second, the collection does not yet reach forward to the point where it can include futures not "neomodern," as Harris calls them, and not because they prefer to navigate without ancient terminologies but because they are advancing the nonmodern project of "New Materialism" more broadly. New(er) RoS theories injecting what Scott Graham and Carl Herndl call "the post-plural" and what Nathan Stormer (2016) calls "rhetoric!s diverse materiality" deserve to be included in the next update. A few other essays stand out, for the least because they strive to overcome the nature-culture, mind-body, whole-part, and realideal dualisms in a way unaddressed in any past attempts.…”