Monthly Archives: October 2013

Je suis membre actif du groupe de lecture AIME (http://aimegroup.wordpress.com/), mais contrairement à Adam Robbert j’ai rapidement trouvé trop contraignant le format de commentaire chapitre par chapitre du livre. J’aurais voulu participer à une discussion plus diversifiée sur le site … Continue reading →

Sam Hind of THE SEMAPHORE LINE drew attention to this video and asked for a translation: Here is my translation: Laure Adler: First question for you Michel Serres, are you Tintin? Serres: Am I Tintin? Oh no I am much … Continue reading →

The modesofexistence (http://modesofexistence.org/index.php/site/index) people have contacted the AIME reading group to solicit comments and greater participation. Here is the comment I left on their site: I am a member of the AIME reading group, but unlike Adam I quckly felt … Continue reading →

One big thing that is missing on Facebook and on the blogosphere is plain old argument. People seem incapable of following even fairly simple arguments, and unwilling to provide any arguments themselves. Fairly basic emotions generate in-groups and their scornful … Continue reading →

Originally posted on The Charnel-House:
Image: Pieter Brueghel “The Flatterers” (1592) . Earlier today, I tried to make my way through this rather long, theory-heavy Facebook thread. It popped up on my feed and some of the first few comments seemed…

Latour’s diplomatic metalanguage is a form of pluralised dialectics, as is post-structuralist thought in general. Deleuze, for example, is willing to look favorably on Hegel’s dialectics on the condition that movement is given primacy over negativity. Zizek’s recent ontological treatise … Continue reading →

I seem to be alone in thinking that Latour’s repeated references to William James are not to be taken as indicative of any major intellectual debt to Jamesian pragmatism. This is not to deny that Latour’s pluralist ontology can usefully … Continue reading →