Antonia Wimbush explores how cultural works preserve the overlooked memories of Caribbean migration to France through the BUMIDOM program and challenge France’s national narrative.
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…
Fifty years have passed since the publication of Of Grammatology, and the Oxford Literary Review has dedicated its July 2018 issue to marking “The Age of Grammatology”. In my contribution to this issue, Misreading Generalised Writing: from Foucault to Speculative…
To celebrate the new edition of Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making, we bring you an exclusive author Q&A with Graham Harman. Questions by Jon Cogburn.
EMPIRICISM Adrian Johnston Before addressing Meillassoux’s positioning vis-à-vis empiricism proper as an epistemological orientation in philosophy, I should say a few words about his relations with things empirical, specifically as per the empirical sciences resting upon a posteriori observation and…
DELEUZE, GILLES Jeffrey Bell Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) is probably Meillassoux’s most important interlocutor, the philosopher who is both closest to his own concerns and yet the one with whom he most strongly disagrees. On the one hand, both Deleuze and…
CORRELATIONISM Written by Levi R. Bryant Meillassoux’s concept of correlation is arguably among his most significant and controversial contributions to philosophy. In After Finitude, he defines correlation as ‘the idea according to which we only ever have access to the…