Professor James Williams will be giving a series of talks at Paris 8 University in April and May 2014. The second talk on April 29th will be on Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of signs, as set out in Deleuze’s book ‘Proust…
Everything we call base is a phenomenon due to gravity. Moreover the word baseness is an indication of this fact. . . . Queueing for food. The same action is easier if the motive is base than if it is…
Gravity: From the Latin gravitatem, ‘weight; heaviness; pressure’. According to Weil, gravity is the force governing human existence when and as we are directed by base virtues. It is characterised not only by attraction but also an intensity the closer…