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The Danger of Group Signs: Philosophy and Covid-19

Post By James Williams 17th November 2021

In the first year of the pandemic, there were many types of sign associated with Covid-19: warning signs; names; national symbols; new indicators for numbers and trends; orders; images; and instructions. However, when I wrote about Covid-19 and signs in 2020, I failed to predict the dominance of a particular…

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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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  • 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
  • Semiology of Autopoiesis (I)
  • Matter and Sense in Gilles Deleuze’s Logic of Sense: Against the ‘Ism’ in Speculative Realism
  • The Danger of Group Signs: Philosophy and Covid-19
  • Deleuze’s Timed Logic (III) Tested to Destruction
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  • First Principle of Pragmatics: Everything Evolves Amidst a Shared Problem

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