First things first - the universe is DEFINITELY weird - that's what makes it so great.
I really appreciated the inclusion of the preface for the dissertation on Santeria as part of this week's reading. I find it really enriching to have field-of-study crossover or cross-pollination. It gets the metaphors rolling, which is one of the approaches I find helpful for thinking about abstract topics such as 'uncertainty'.
It is also interesting to try to tie the readings together. Kristina Wirtz used Heisenberg's uncertainty principle as a tool for talking about her method of conducting this ethnographic study on Santeria. I see the quantum camera as another really good metaphor for her approach: "Instead of trying to 'see' an object, the quantum camera simply 'feels' the rise and fall of photonic waves in quantum fields around the camera." It seems that Kristina was acting kind of like a quantum camera - instead of trying to tie down or define Santeria in space, herself, she sought to use series and patterns of measurements (religious practitioners' own "discursive activity") to approximate the trajectories of some of the elements of this cultural phenomenon known as Santeria. She was working to produce an image through the cloud of culture and subjective experience...
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