Essay Abstract
This essay explores the entwined histories of temperature, probability, and energy in an effort to challenge foundational assumptions in physics. I argue that uncertainty, unpredictability, and uncomputability are the inevitable result of an approach to knowledge production reliant on probability.
Author Bio
Scott W. Schwartz is an anthropologist and lecturer with the City University of New York. His work focuses on the material culture of knowledge production, specifically the practices, politics, and history of quantification.