Cull the one percent (a suggested process against inequality) ‘Under the Company’s beneficent influence, our customs are now steeped in chance.’ With the recent report from Oxfam confirming the obscene and growing inequalities of our current societies, I wonder whether it is time to institute a solution inspired by Borges’s…
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Deleuze and the Sublime
Deleuze and the sublime January 29, 2019 PHI research group, Deakin University Deakin Downtown. Level 12 Tower 2 – 727 Collins Street Melbourne 3008 Australia Details 11am. James Williams (Deakin). The end of all universal values: an anarchist takedown of the sublime 12pm. Lunch 1pm. Tim Deane-Freeman (Deakin). A murmuring place: the…
Continue ReadingPosthuman Ecologies: Complexity and Process after Deleuze
My article in this innovative volume edited by Rosi Braidotti and Simone Bignall is on time and the posthuman (there’s an earlier draft in the Deleuze section of this site). There are many great articles in the collection, on pressing contemporary issues, including environment and ecology, political action after Deleuze,…
Continue ReadingThe Egalitarian Sublime: a Process Philosophy
My book on the sublime is going into production with Edinburgh University Press. It should be in print by August 2019. As a foretaste, here is the current version of the back cover information: The Egalitarian Sublime: a Process Philosophy A new, egalitarian, process philosophy of the sublime We call…
Continue ReadingReview of Jay Lampert’s The Many Futures of a Decision
My review of Jay Lampert’s The Many Futures of Decision in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Continue ReadingReview of Kiff Bamford’s Jean-François Lyotard
Here is my review in French Studies of the very enjoyable and inventive new biography of Lyotard by Kiff Bamford, published by Reaktion Books in their Critical Lives series. I’ve added a link to the longer version on my Reviews page as well. Bamford, Lyotard
Continue ReadingThe Transversal Thought of Gilles Deleuze
The Transversal Thought of Gilles Deleuze Full PDF of my book of essays on Deleuze and Kant, Levinas, Bachelard, Whitehead, Lewis, Harman, Negri and Lyotard
Continue ReadingThe Politics of (Post) Truth
The Politics of (Post) Truth I’ll post my talk on signs and truth from this Cumberland Lodge conference later in December
Continue ReadingDissensus, Judgment, Universality: Rethinking Lyotard’s Politics
November 30 – December 1 International Workshop Dissensus, Judgment, Universality Rethinking Lyotard’s Politics at the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders,” Goethe University, Frankfurt. Program for the Workshop. I’ll be speaking about the potential for resistance to normativity and the deeper understanding of the genesis of normative orders…
Continue ReadingARCP 14: Putting the Deleuzian Machine to Work in Psychology 2018
New issue of Annual Review of Critical Psychology on Deleuze, edited by Maria Nichterlein, ARCP 14: Putting the Deleuzian Machine to Work in Psychology. It includes my article on Deleuze, Guattari and Method. ARCP 14
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