The Hamiltonian Topology of Jacques Lacan

This video is prepared for presentation at LACK, a scholarly conference sponsored by the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. The AI voice-over ("James," a posh Brit) is being employed for the first time to create an "acousmatic" dimension, although he's not so good pronouncing French names. The author is yet again grateful to Mr. Alireza Moharrer, a systems and electrical engineer who lives in Oakland, California, for introducing him to idea of the Hamiltonian, although he has applied it to alien materials, hopefully in the spirit of the idea if at the expense of the letter. The Hamiltonian in this Lacanian context has come to stand for the global principle of self-intersection, which for Lacan always involves a twist, fold, or crisscross. To be experienced, the Hamiltonian must immerse into 3-space in what the author calls "Escher formations," locales that embody the Hamiltonian with spatio-temporal anomalies.