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Q&A with the author of Performing Worlds at the Baroque Court of Christine of France
Read more: Q&A with the author of Performing Worlds at the Baroque Court of Christine of FranceThis interview explores how Christine of France used Baroque court spectacles to shape political authority, global imagination, and cultures of consumption.
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…
The dignity of pointing
by Hilan Bensusan Pointing is a thoroughly situated activity. One points at what is somehow around – even when one needs complex language devices for the exercise. Maybe because thinking often aims to be indifferent to where one is, pointing…
A New Age of Whitehead Scholarship
At the end of his first year of what would turn out to be thirteen years teaching at Harvard, Alfred North Whitehead wrote a letter to his eldest son, North, in which he discussed how he felt about teaching his…