Expanded text to my keynote talk on Deleuze and time given to the Lithuanian Philosophical Association, May 2019
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Truth as the fullest: on journalism in the age of fake news
This paper on truth and process philosophy follows from my talk at The Politics of (Post) Truth conference at Cumberland Lodge in October 2018 https://www.jamesrwilliams.net/the-politics-of-post-truth/ It is also a reflection on truth and the process philosophy of signs. Truth as the fullest: on journalism in the age of fake news
Continue ReadingCinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image 10 on “Painting, Moving Images and Philosophy”
Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image 10 on “Painting, Moving Images and Philosophy” is now online at cjpmi.ifilnova.pt. I was guest editor, working with Susana Viegas, for this issue. Thanks to a terrific line up of papers and Susana’s outstanding knowledge of the field, the issue tackles the relation…
Continue ReadingDeleuze and the new (revisited)
Deleuze and the new (revisited) One of the most important places Deleuze discusses the new is in the section on the third synthesis of time in Difference and Repetition. His study has been considered by, among many others, Daniel W. Smith, and Simon O’Sullivan and Stephen Zepke in their collection…
Continue ReadingCull the One Percent
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…
Continue ReadingDeleuze 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
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