now in the factory

The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE is now in the hands of the publisher (zerO). I would estimate August/September as the publication date.

It consists of a fairly lightly edited transcript of the February 5, 2008 LSE event (including audience questions from the likes of Peter Hallward and Alberto Toscano), along with a deeply informative preface by Peter Erdélyi, who was responsible for organizing the entire thing.

The Speculative Turn should also be headed to the factory today or so, which will leave me with just one book project for the time being: the Meillassoux book for Edinburgh. (Oh yes, there’s also Orpheus, which was derailed for a full year by the other projects that came up unexpectedly. I need to pull it out as a reminder and see where that was going.)

Otherwise, the next two will be: Circus Philosophicus 2 (I’m already addicted to writing in that vein) and a more systematic work that I thought up while in Malta.

There will be a much greater element of Greek philosophy in the latter book than in my previous work. While recently assembling all of my past publications for administrative reasons internal to the University, the biggest shock was realizing that my publications have been overwhelmingly on 20th and 21st century topics– a fact that is a poor match for what actually goes on in my mind when thinking about philosophy.

I’ve decided to remedy that in the coming years, though presumably there will still be requests to write on recent figures and I will try to fulfill as many of those as possible. But otherwise, you’ll probably be seeing a lot less Husserl and Heidegger from me over the next 5 years, and a lot more of the influence of Plato and Aristotle. In this specific book there will also be plenty of Bergson, who still counts for me as the most stunningly original of recent philosophers (in the sense of “where on earth did this come from?”).