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Here are some of my latest pieces on the process philosophy of signs, following on from my book A Process Philosophy of Signs. The most recent ones are about politics, democracy and signs, particularly in terms of the politics, science and philosophical implications of Covid-19.

  • They Can Remove a Monument, but They Can’t Erase the Sign
  • The Danger of Group Signs: Philosophy and Covid-19
  • Risky Signs: Philosophy and Covid-19
  • Signs and Democracy
  • Truth as the fullest: on journalism in the age of fake news (PDF)
  • For F’s sake: Theresa May, falling letters and the philosophy of signs
  • Diagrams of comic estrangement (PDF)
  • Do signs have styles? (PDF)
  • Whitehead’s symbolism as process philosophy of the sign (PDF)
  • The process philosophy of signs is a pragmatism (PDF)
  • Process semiology defined simply (PDF)
  • A critique of corrective approaches to signs (PDF)
  • How to diagram a process sign (PDF)
  • Behind red doors: signs, process and the political (PDF)
  • The sign is always political: ‘barbarian’ as burnt sign (PDF)
  • Identity photographs and the process philosophy of signs (PDF)
  • What is a diagram (for a sign)? (PDF)
  • A process philosophy of signs – A sample from A Process Philosophy of Signs (EUP, 2016) (PDF)
  • Process ontologies and the posthuman (PDF)
  • Pragmatism of the sign (PDF)
  • Whitehead’s curse (PDF)
  • Do no harm: the extended mind model and the problem of delayed damage (PDF)
 
 

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

  • 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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  • Currently based in Scotland and France
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