How We Get to Everything Everywhere All at Once: Money, Choice, and Simultaneity

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February 16, 2023
3:30PM - 4:30PM
311 Denney Hall

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2023-02-16 15:30:00 2023-02-16 16:30:00 How We Get to Everything Everywhere All at Once: Money, Choice, and Simultaneity A Project Narrative talk by Professor Amanpal Garcha. This talk will show that the history of economics and the history of narratives about decision-making can help us understand our present moment’s fascination with multiverses. The first part of the talk will outline some ways that, since the early 19th century, changing conceptions of economic value have corresponded to changing formal features in the narration of choice.  The second part will use this history to explain important aspects of Everything Everywhere All at Once: the film’s narration of the Quans’ financial difficulties, its representation of their immigrant identities, and its assertion that the multiverse is a consequence of modernity’s expansive possibilities for deciding among different options, all of which seem simultaneously available. The Zoom link for the event can be found here. Zoom Meeting information : Meeting ID: 925 8218 5611 Password: 838658 311 Denney Hall America/New_York public

A Project Narrative talk by Professor Amanpal Garcha.

This talk will show that the history of economics and the history of narratives about decision-making can help us understand our present moment’s fascination with multiverses. The first part of the talk will outline some ways that, since the early 19th century, changing conceptions of economic value have corresponded to changing formal features in the narration of choice.  The second part will use this history to explain important aspects of Everything Everywhere All at Once: the film’s narration of the Quans’ financial difficulties, its representation of their immigrant identities, and its assertion that the multiverse is a consequence of modernity’s expansive possibilities for deciding among different options, all of which seem simultaneously available.

The Zoom link for the event can be found here.

Zoom Meeting information :
Meeting ID: 925 8218 5611
Password: 838658