a quick thought on that interview

The sample cited below from the Levi interview could have gone on for much longer, but it seemed better just to link to the full interview itself. The part I found most inspiring was the notion of philosophy’s encounter with its other, which is all over Latour but can also be found in an emerging author such as Bogost, who is refreshing in many of the same ways as Latour himself.

In Levi’s case, the parts about psychoanalysis were perhaps the most moving– how each person is different, and it makes you realize how wrong we are in assuming that everyone basically thinks and values in the same way we do. (And this is yet another reason that it’s important simply to write and think sincerely rather than trying to go into “thinker mode” or “author mode.” Just by being yourself, you are already extremely divergent from anyone else.)

Levi’s point about the problem with academic philosophy is also germane– in Philosophy Departments, philosophy is isolated from its other and is therefore not provoked into new thoughts as often as it should be.