My talk here at Burque last winter I want to start by thanking you all and acknowledging the department of philosophy, the University of New Mexico and this land, as a visitor coming from the south of the border and from the land of many Macroje peoples who themselves live in a way that is constantly informed by memory, immortality and their ancestors, I strive to learn more about the Tiwas, the Sandia peoples and other indigenous communities of the area. I keep finding myself trying to find their marks around – and they seem quite well hidden. For reasons to do with this very talk, I welcome ..read more

 This is the text of my seminar on ultrametaphysics on Friday here in Albuquerque. An attempt at a history of ultrametaphysics in five chapters Hilan Bensusan I begin with some of the words in the title. First, ‘ultrametaphysics’, then ‘history’ and ‘chapters’. ‘Ultrametaphysics’, which I discovered that in my mouth could sound like ‘autre metaphysics’, intends to address what comes after metaphysics assuming that metaphysics is an endeavor – or an epoch, or a project, or an activity – that reaches an end, perhaps because it is consolidated, perhaps because it has reached its own limits ..read more

Paul Livingston, in his Logic of Being, starts out reminding us of the battle of gods and giants at stake in Plato's Sophist according to Heidegger. To the association of being with ousia is connected the very psycho-logic of permanence underneath changing appearances. Reading the Sophist with Severino makes one hint at a connection between the parricide (the introduction of nothingness as a possible object of thought - and consideration) and the link between being and ousia. And, as a consequence, of the origin of the metaphysics of presence in the gesture that introduced nothingness to (Gree ..read more

 My talk in Aachen today ..read more

  Filosofía, espectros eindexicalismo Colonial y contracolonial em filosofía: El privilégio de la universalidad en una linea canónica desde el excepcionalismo grego hasta el excepcionalismo del Atlantico Norte (los cinco países de Grosfoguel). Cabrera: el problema es que ellos vienen aquí y hablam de su problema em su lenguas, nosotros vamos allí y hablamos de sus problemas em sus lenguas. Bernasconi: el paradoxo del parochialismo de la filosofia – la razón es universal pero comenzóem Grecia. La historia de la filosofía como empresa de colonización: Dieterich Tiedemann y Wilhelm Gottlieb ..read more

  Do indexicalismo ao realismo espectral Indexicalismo na prancheta: Como fazer justiça ao exterior, ao outro enquanto outro, ao fora sem incluí-lo em uma totalidade no limite construída soberanamente sem espaço para um aporte de alhures a não ser enquanto notícia a ser incorporada? Pode a exterioridade levinasiana responder ao problema do correlacionismo? Como considerar a exterioridade levinasiana em uma filosofia do processo que não oferece um privilégio ao conhecimento ou à agência de humanos? Indexicalismo, a fórmula: Quatro ingredientes: 1. Whitehead: elementos neo-monadológicos ..read more

 My attempt to formulate stereoscopy and its relation to the several dimensions of cosmoplitics is out in the rdq volume edited by Sofya Gevorkian and Carlos Segovia ..read more

Meu diálogo sobre o lugar de fala do lugar de fala, com convidados reais, subreais e quase-reais, saiu na Artemis ..read more

 Cosmos & History issued a volume with the papers presented in the September-October book symposium around Indexicalism. It includes my responses and a précis of the book: It is here ..read more

 The EUP blog published few weeks ago an interview Graham did with me around Indexicalism: https://euppublishingblog.com/2021/11/25/a-conversation-with-graham-harman-and-hilan-bensusan-on-indexicalism-2 ..read more