The history of the incandescent electric light bulb goes way back to 1800, when Alessandro Volta invented an early form of battery called the Voltaic pile. This device produced continuous direct current, and it was soon discovered that when passed through conductive materials the current was capable of producing heat and, under certain circumstances, light. […]| carnotcycle
Susan Stepney’s (2025) reconceptualisation of agential chemistry as programmable agential matter presents a potent challenge: how can matter be designed and engineered to be persuadable? This essay explores her provocation by proposing a practical framework for material persuasion by unpacking the key concept of the representational entity (RE) and combining this with two elements. First, I employ Françoise Chatelin’s non-classical mathematics—a representational framework that recasts...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective