For over a century quantum mechanics has dominated the theoretical discourse of reality, with its strong mathematical arm and hard scientific results, from Bohr to Feynman. Recently though new interpretations have softened the rigid data into much more ‘humanised’ context, e.g. conscious(Penrose), poetical(Wheeler), holistic(Sans Segarra), spiritual(Faggin), musical(Hood), emotional(Rovelli), deep-listening(Oliveros), and even a materialist like Žižek has used artistic narratives as musical variations in exposing his Quantum History(2026). This paper will support this softening of tone onto a new post-qualitative inquiry, and at the same time arguing further that the arts and humanities are centre stage if not foundations of reality itself. Given that Post-poststructuralist is suffusing this current epoch, a new reconstruction of reality is overdue, not only in the form of a proposed return to Structuralism, but this time round one based on the substratum of the arts, and the main superstructure on the humanities. The author of this study intends to further homogenise multidisciplinary discourse from quantum theories to historical and cultural studies, drawing from his extended research: ‘Resilience of La Rose En Vie…’( London, 2021); ‘New Revolutions in the Arts, Humanities…’(Paris, 2022); and ‘Global Citizenship Based on the Arts…’(London, 2025), toward a new history, namely a ‘qualitum’ history: an emergentist, humanist, post-postmodern, and even moralist account, and going as far as speculating the return of Beauty with the capital B. Yes, a Great Beauty, one even greater than the Classical one, inspiring young generations to take a ‘qualitum’ leap forward, making it blossom, and enter life/history anew.

Authors:
Albert Pizzaia, The British Library, United Kingdom

About the Presenter(s)
Albert Pizzaia is an independent scholar in Arts History, Musicology and Philosophy of History and a secondary school teacher in History and the Humanities in London UK.

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