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General, Process philosophy, Signs Hong Kong, monuments, remembrance, slave trade

They can remove a monument, but they can’t erase the sign

Post By James Williams 24th December 2021

2021 has been a year for removing and reassessing monuments around the world, from statues of slave traders to memorials for an uprising. One of the aims of state sponsored removals has been to eliminate a physical memento in order to obliterate the events it stood for. That aim can…

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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

  • 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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