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Honorary Professor of Philosophy
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Here are some bits and pieces about things I care about in philosophy, art and politics.

The most recent pieces are on method and practice (pragmatics and process philosophy) or on philosophy and Covid-19

 

  • The Danger of Group Signs: Philosophy and Covid-19
  • Fantastic Pragmatism
  • First Principle of Pragmatics: Everything Evolves Amidst a Shared Problem
  • Risky Signs: Philosophy and Covid-19
  • Democracy and Emergencies: Philosophy and Covid-19
  • Is there (still) a continental-analytic divide in philosophy? (PDF)
  • Seven theses on affirmation and Braidotti’s posthumanism (PDF)
  • Alienation and the posthuman (PDF)
  • Continental philosophy (PDF)
  • Progressive politics (PDF)
  • Uncanny ideologies in the art of Navid Nuur (PDF)

About James Williams

James is Honorary Professor of Philosophy and member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization at Deakin University.

 

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Recent posts

  • Everything Arrives Unmade (Démontage III – through the Art of Cyril Pedrosa)
  • Paradox in Deleuze and Luhmann [Draft article]
  • Perishing and Démontage in the Works of Jean-Marc Rochette: a Process Philosophy of Life and Death (Démontage II)
  • Autopoiesis and Death (Semiology of Autopoiesis IX)
  • Can a Sign Be Used Autonomously? (Semiology of Autopoiesis VIII)
  • Time and One-way Events: Bande Dessinée as Démontage (Deleuze’s Timed Logic, VII; Démontage I)
  • Won’t be fooled again? Ezekiel Di Paolo and Enactive Autopoiesis: Semiology of Autopoiesis (VII)
  • Language and Social Systems: Semiology of Autopoiesis (VI)
  • Deleuze’s Timed Logic (VI) The Event and Time (English Draft of Version for Sabah Ülkesi Magazine)
  • Modes of Explanation: Semiology of Autopoiesis (V)

Contact Info

  • Currently based in Scotland and France
  • hello@jamesrwilliams.net
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