{"id":4103,"date":"2011-05-23T19:40:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T00:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=4103"},"modified":"2011-05-23T19:40:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T00:40:44","slug":"thinking-with-whitehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/05\/23\/thinking-with-whitehead\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking with Whitehead<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Isabelle Stengers’s Thinking With Whitehead<\/a> arrived in the mail today. The publication of the English translation of this tome, a long nine years after the French original, is a genuine Event in the world of process-relational philosophy (or whatever you’d like to name the “beatnik brotherhood,” as Harman<\/a> calls it, of philosophers of immanence and becoming — a brother\/sisterhood that Harman asserts does not<\/em> constitute a counter-current to the hegemonic alliance of philosophies of essence, substance, and onto-theological transcendence, but that Deleuzians and others would like to think does<\/em>).<\/p>\n

With its Foreword by Bruno Latour and its thorough fusion of Whitehead, Deleuze, and science (Stengers was a student of Deleuze’s, and is a philosopher of science and collaborator of Ilya Prigogine’s), I suspect the book may reorient the post-Latourian world away from its current infatuation with objects<\/em> and back to the processes<\/em> that produce, sustain, and destroy those objects.<\/p>\n

(Them’s fighting words! I’m having fun, of course; salty flavor very much intended.)<\/p>\n

Light reading for the summer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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