Crosscurrents
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Jean-Luc Nancy and the Deconstruction of Christianity: A Conversation with Ashok Collins
What happens when deconstruction turns toward religion? And what might Christianity look like when read through the philosophical lens of Jean-Luc Nancy? In this interview I speak with Dr Ashok Collins about his book Jean-Luc Nancy and the Deconstruction of Christianity. Our conversation explores the complex relationship between deconstruction, theology, and contemporary continental philosophy. You
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French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn: A Conversation with Madeleine Chalmers
How should we think about technology philosophically? And why has contemporary theory increasingly turned toward the nonhuman—toward machines, objects, and technological systems—as key actors in shaping our world? In this interview, I speak with Dr Madeleine Chalmers about her book French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn. The conversation explores a fascinating intellectual genealogy linking
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Witnessing Plasticity: A Conversation with Benjamin Dalton
What happens when philosophy meets the fragility of the human body? In this episode of the Crosscurrents series, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr Benjamin Dalton about his new book Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity. The conversation explores the provocative idea of plasticity—a concept developed by the contemporary
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Interview with Aidan Tynan about his new book The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy
Recently I interviewed Aidan Tynan about his book The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy, an excellent new addition to the Edinburgh University Press Crosscurrents series. Chris Watkin: What first drew you to contemplate the desert? Was there one book or encounter that originally led you to the importance of this motif? Aidan Tynan:
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Stephen Zepke’s Sublime Art now available: details of giveaway/exchange offer
My copies of Stephen Zepke’s Sublime Art arrived this morning. Thanks to Stephen, Carol and everyone at EUP for making such a fantastic volume. I can offer two of my copies as free giveaways either 1) if you pay the postage from Melbourne, Australia or 2) in exchange for a similar priced book/books of your
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How art can create a new future: Stephen Zepke, Sublime Art
I am delighted to report that Stephen Zepke’s Sublime Art is nearing publication, with the cover now being proofed. How art can create a new future Sublime art exceeds the present. It is an undetermined expression that in coming into being creates new universals, new modes of life and new coefficients of freedom. Stephen Zepke tracks
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Interview with Leemon McHenry about his forthcoming book The Event Universe
Recently I interviewed Leemon McHenry about his book The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead (UK) (US), the newest addition to the Crosscurrents series. The book is available for pre-order and scheduled for publication in July. Leemon’s other books can be found here. Chris Watkin: You write in the preface that
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Emma Wilson’s address from the book launch of Amaleena Damlé’s The Becoming of the Body
I am delighted to make available the address given by Emma Wilson at the launch of the latest volume in the Crosscurrents series, Amaleena Damlé‘s The Becoming of the Body. The launch took place at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, on 20 June this year as part of the “Celebrating Publications in
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Reconceiving Naturalism Conference Programme
The programme for “Reconceiving Naturalism: The Speculative Challenge” has just been published. The conference will take place on April 26–27 at Swinburne University, Melbourne, and my paper on Meillassoux is scheduled for the Saturday morning.
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Interview with Amaleena Damlé about her recently published book The Becoming of the Body
Amaleena Damlé’s The Becoming of the Body: Contemporary Women’s Writing in French has just been published in Edinburgh University Press’s Crosscurrents series. In an interview with Amaleena I explored some of the issues raised by the book. CHRIS WATKIN: To paint with very broad brushstrokes as we begin, into which debates is this book
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Cover and endorsement for Khandker, Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences
The cover has just been finalised for Wahida Khandker’s Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences, in the Crosscurrents series. The endorsement from Cary Wolfe reads: Ranging across a remarkable array of crucial texts in the recent history of philosophy and the life sciences, this book provides both an invaluable critical overview of the work of
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Interview with Wahida Khandker about her forthcoming book Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences
I am delighted that Crosscurrents will be publishing Wahida Khandker’s new book Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences in July 2014. The book is a study of pathological concepts of animal life in Continental philosophy from Bergson to Haraway. Here is the blurb: Amongst contemporary debates about our relation to non-human animals, our use of them
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Nicholas Davey, Unfinished Worlds: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and Gadamer – Introduction PDF
Later this year Crosscurrents will be publishing Nicholas Davey’s important new book Unfinished Worlds: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and Gadamer. In addition to the blurb below, I am thrilled that Nicholas has kindly agreed for me to post here the complete introductory chapter, which is also available as a PDF. Hans-Georg Gadamer’s poetics completely overturns the European aesthetic tradition.
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Interview with Mathew Abbott about his forthcoming book, The Figure of This World: Agamben and the Question of Political Ontology
In a few months Crosscurrents will be publishing Mathew Abbott’s The Figure of This World, an important new book on Agamben and political ontology. I took the opportunity to put some questions to Mathew about his intentions for the book and how it develops current debates. CW: Let’s start with where this book sits in the landscape