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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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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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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)

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