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Category: Process philosophy

Process philosophy, Sublime

Messi is not sublime (nor is Ronaldo)

Post By James Williams 23rd August 2019

My book on the egalitarian sublime has almost no sport in it. I avoid it for political and philosophical reasons. Politically, as entertainment, sports are the bread and circuses of our age, culminating in the sportswashing beloved of kleptocrats, monopolies and repressive governments. The problem with sport runs deeper than…

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Deleuze, Process philosophy

Deleuze’s Philosophy of Time: Time as Dimensions, Syntheses and Problems (Vilnius, Lithuanian Philosophical Association, May 2019)

Post By James Williams 14th June 2019

Expanded text to my keynote talk on Deleuze and time given to the Lithuanian Philosophical Association, May 2019

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Process philosophy, Signs

Truth as the fullest: on journalism in the age of fake news

Post By James Williams 17th May 2019

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

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Deleuze, Process philosophy

Posthuman Ecologies: Complexity and Process after Deleuze

Post By James Williams 20th January 2019

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,…

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Process philosophy, Sublime

The Egalitarian Sublime: a Process Philosophy

Post By James Williams 12th December 2018

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…

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Deleuze, Process philosophy, Signs

The Philosophy of Events

Post By James Williams 20th June 2018

Summer Symposium in Contemporary Philosophy ​ The University of Bonn International Centre for Philosophy NRW The Philosophy of Events My seminars will be on signs and events (in Deleuze, Whitehead and my process philosophy of signs)

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Process philosophy, Signs

Comedy and Critical Thought: Laughter as Resistance

Post By James Williams 12th May 2018

Comedy and Critical Thought, edited by Iain MacKenzie, Fred Francis, and Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone Includes my chapter on signs, diagrams and humour, ‘Diagrams of Comic Estrangement’ Draft version here

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

 

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  • Modes of Explanation: Semiology of Autopoiesis (IV)
  • 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)
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  • Graphic Events: a Realist Account of Graphic Design
  • Deleuze’s Timed Logic (IV): Passive to the Past
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  • They can remove a monument, but they can’t erase the sign
  • Semiology of Autopoiesis (I)

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