Williamwatkin
William Watkin is Professor of Contemporary Poetry and Philosophy at Brunel University, London. He is the author of three books: "In the Process of Poetry: The New York School and the Avant-Garde" (2001), "On Mourning: Theories of Loss in Modern Literature" (2004) and "The Literary Agamben: Adventures in Logopoiesis" (2010). He has just completed two new books: "Agamben and Indifference: A Critical Overview" and "Deleuze and the Consistency of Indifference". He is currently working on a book on Alain Badiou and indifference as part of a four volume study of the concept of indifference as development, completion and critique of the modern philosophy of difference.
His blog, http://williamwatkin.blogspot.co.uk/ is now ten years old. Specialising in contemporay poetry and philosophy it has had over 75k hits in the past decade.
MY BLOGS
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William Watkin's Blog
http://williamwatkin.blogspot.co.uk/
An experimental poetry and philosophy page since 2003. Here I post material related to my ongoing research into contemporary poetry and philosophy including readings of poets and philosophers resulting from my seminars at Brunel University, London.
The blog is ten years old this year and has had more than 75k hits in the past decade.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 56 )
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Agamben Explained in 500 Words
I have just finished my second major study of the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, Agamben and Indifference. As I think Agamben has been widely mis-read and my... Read more
Posted on 29 October 2012 BOOKS, PHILOSOPHY -
Aesthetics Versus Literary Theory
In email conversation with Joe Hughes recently, check out his two books on Deleuze they are excellent by the way, I tried to explain a long-term project I am... Read more
Posted on 02 October 2012 BOOKS, PHILOSOPHY -
Apotropaicism: Aura and Trace
In the opening to Jean-Michel Rabate's recent book Given, he presents the history of aesthetics through considerations of aura, trace and neuter. Read more
Posted on 18 September 2012 BOOKS, PHILOSOPHY -
Language Ideas
If we are to take language and/or writing as the essence of truth whether this be language as such (Agamben), as writing (Derrida), house of being (Heidegger) o... Read more
Posted on 18 September 2012 BOOKS, PHILOSOPHY -
Logopoiesis: Tautology Example
What if one took say the categories of analytical philosophy and logic and returned them back to a more broad brush metaphysical style. Read more
Posted on 18 September 2012 BOOKS, PHILOSOPHY -
Language
A traditional error when thinking about language is to reduce it to the mere act of naming, and all the paradoxes inherent therein. Read more
Posted on 18 September 2012 BOOKS, PHILOSOPHY -
"Though We Keep Company with Cats and Dogs": Onomatopoeia, Glossolalia and...
I recently published an article on the work of Lyn Hejinian and Giorgio Agamben in Jacket Magazine.Take a look at it here: "Though we keep company with Cats... Read more
Posted on 07 May 2010 BOOKS, PHILOSOPHY -
Under Glass: Agamben and the Museum
As ever in Agamben's philosophical archaeology there are, according to him, two contesting theories of poiesis in the period of aesthetic modernity. Read more
Posted on 06 May 2010 BOOKS, PHILOSOPHY -
Ontological Whisperings: Agamben and the Name
Ontological Whisperings Only, of the Literature of ExceptionNow entertain conjecture of a timeWhen creeping murmur and the poring darkFills the wide vessel of... Read more
Posted on 06 May 2010 BOOKS, PHILOSOPHY -
Literature and Life in Agamben
The prominence of the literary in the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben is extensive, sustained and fundamental. His first book, The Man Without Content (1972?),... Read more
Posted on 06 May 2010 BOOKS, PHILOSOPHY -
Poetic Dictation
Within the discipline of Romantic studies, Wordsworth’s ‘The Solitary Reaper’ holds an exemplary place. The story recounted by the poem is an archetypal... Read more
Posted on 06 May 2010 BOOKS, PHILOSOPHY -
Syrinx / Larynx: A Full-Throated Ease
Apologies, some odd layout issues here which I need to fix, blogging has changed somehow over the last year or so so need to understand what is wrong here.Syrin... Read more
Posted on 28 April 2009 BOOKS, PHILOSOPHY -
From "Lines out of Space"
Is is worthit now that I said it itseems so much more realersomehow is this the apparitiontrembling in the moisturegathered on the yellowing bluffon trains... Read more
Posted on 01 March 2008 BOOKS, PHILOSOPHY -
Agamben's Idea of Prose and Derrida's Writing: Are They the Same Thing?
Met with Sean Gaston in Oxford yesterday and we spoke for a couple of hours about Derrida's Signsponge. Towards the end I raised an issue about Derrida's... Read more
Posted on 28 February 2008 BOOKS, PHILOSOPHY -
Reading Derrida
It behoves upon us to read Derrida as he would have read Derrida if he were not Derrida. If Derrida were alive now, in his thirties, faced with the massive... Read more
Posted on 28 February 2008 BOOKS, PHILOSOPHY -
Incommensurable Poetics
Introduction Incommensurable: adjective 1 not able to be judged or measured by the same standards. Commensurable: adjective 1 measurable by the same standard.... Read more
Posted on 23 February 2008 BOOKS, PHILOSOPHY