Brett Mommersteeg Urban Vibrations: How Physical Waves come to Matter in Contemporary Urbanism

Back to the Movements (or Waves) Themselves!

This is an instalment of the Waves Classics on Henri Bergson’s Matter and Memory. It was first published in 1896. A book written very much in response to contemporaneous physics and other scientific problems, and in particular, the then development of “wave theory.” Louis de Broglie, an “originator” of wave theory of matter in France, claimed that Bergson “foresaw” some tenets of wave theory and quantum mechanics in his concept of duration and his critique of the mechanistic worldview of matter.