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Deleuze

A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy

Post By James Williams 12th June 2018

I’m one of the editors, but I can recommend this volume on A Thousand Plateaus with a clear and serene conscience. Each of the contributors does something new and critical with a plateau, in ways unexpected and frighteningly rigorous, in the sense of testing ideas to the limit and, in…

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Gilles Deleuze and A. W. Moore: Nonhuman Constructivism or Anthropocentric Narrative in Metaphysics

Post By James Williams 25th July 2017

  ‘Gilles Deleuze and A. W. Moore: Nonhuman Constructivism or Anthropocentric Narrative in Metaphysics’ Philosophical Topics University of Arkansas Press Volume 43, Numbers 1-2, Spring/Fall 2015 pp. 301-317 Earlier draft here  

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Barthes, Deleuze and Peirce: Pragmatism in Pursuit of the Sign

Post By James Williams 23rd October 2016

This is my chapter from Deleuze and Pragmatism edited by Simone Bignall, Sean Bowden, Paul Patton Abstract: In this chapter I will investigate three pragmatic approaches to the sign and three associated kinds of pragmatism. I aim to demonstrate that the disruptive nature of the encounter with the sign raises…

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  • Deleuze’s Timed Logic (VI) The Event and Time (English Draft of Version for Sabah Ülkesi Magazine) 15th February 2023
  • Modes of Explanation: Semiology of Autopoiesis (V) 22nd January 2023
  • Fantastic Pragmatism (published version) 29th November 2022
  • Claire Colebrook on Time and Autopoiesis: Semiology of Autopoiesis (IV) 4th November 2022
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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

  • Deleuze’s Timed Logic (VI) The Event and Time (English Draft of Version for Sabah Ülkesi Magazine)
  • Modes of Explanation: Semiology of Autopoiesis (V)
  • Fantastic Pragmatism (published version)
  • Claire Colebrook on Time and Autopoiesis: Semiology of Autopoiesis (IV)
  • Autopoiesis and Time: Deleuze’s Timed Logic (V)/Semiology of Autopoiesis (III)
  • Diagrams of Shame
  • Graphic Events: a Realist Account of Graphic Design
  • Deleuze’s Timed Logic (IV): Passive to the Past
  • Semiology of Autopoiesis (II)
  • They can remove a monument, but they can’t erase the sign

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