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When the Wind Blows: Planning for Nuclear War in the 1980s
Read more: When the Wind Blows: Planning for Nuclear War in the 1980sJim Gledhill on the organisation of civil defence in Scotland amidst Cold War tensions.
Kevin Worrall
Hector MacQueen on David Sellar’s Essays (Part 1)
by Hector L. MacQueen David Sellar (1941-2019) was a pioneering historian of Scots law who convincingly and conclusively rejected previous interpretations of the subject as a series of false starts and rejected experiments. Instead, he emphasised the continuity of legal…
A Conversation with Laurence Diver on ‘Digisprudence’
by Laurence Diver Tell us a bit about your book Digisprudence is about the technologies that govern our behavior, and how they can be designed in ways that are compatible with democracy. We’ve probably all had that feeling of frustration…
A Conversation with Tina Sikka on ‘Sex, Consent and Justice’
by Tina Sikka 1. Tell us a bit about your book. The book draws on high profile case studies that emerged out of the #MeToo movement, specifically Harvey Weinstein, Louis CK, Jian Ghomeshi, Avital Ronell, and Aziz Ansari, to make…
A Continental Tour of Philosophy- An abridged excerpt from “A Continental Guide to Philosophy”
by John Douglas Macready The history of philosophy can be thought of as an art gallery filled with paintings by various artists. Each painting is a representation of reality from a particular perspective and makes use of distinct methods and…
A Conversation with Graham Harman and Hilan Bensusan on ‘Indexicalism’
Graham Harman and Hilan Bensusan Graham Harman: Your new book Indexicalism has already created a lot of excitement, including a wonderful online book launch conference, the likes of which I have never seen before[i]. Could you start by explaining to…
A Conversation with Graham Harman and Hilan Bensusan on ‘Indexicalism’ (Part 5)
Graham Harman and Hilan Bensusan Have you read Part 1 – 4? Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4 Graham Harman: In your book, you speak of Leibniz as a “relational” philosopher in much the same sense of Whitehead. A monad is determined by…
A Conversation with Graham Harman and Hilan Bensusan on ‘Indexicalism’ (Part 4)
Graham Harman and Hilan Bensusan Have you read Part 1 – 3? Part 1Part 2Part 3 Graham Harman: Another influence on your book is the appeal to “multinaturalism” that we find not only in Bruno Latour, but also in those concerned with…
A Conversation with Graham Harman and Hilan Bensusan on ‘Indexicalism’ (Part 3)
Graham Harman and Hilan Bensusan Have you read Part 1 and 2? Part 1Part 2 Graham Harman: Let’s turn now to your relation with a relevant analytic philosopher, Saul Kripke. In recent decades Kripke has been widely read among continental…
A Conversation with Graham Harman and Hilan Bensusan on ‘Indexicalism’ (Part 2)
Graham Harman and Hilan Bensusan Have you read Part 1? See it here! Graham Harman: As for Levinas, I enjoy your treatment of his notion of otherness. But I couldn’t help noticing that in your new book you don’t really…
A Conversation with Graham Harman and Hilan Bensusan on ‘Indexicalism’ (Part 1)
Graham Harman and Hilan Bensusan Graham Harman: Your new book Indexicalism has already created a lot of excitement, including a wonderful online book launch conference, the likes of which I have never seen before[i]. Could you start by explaining to…