Andrew Goffey, Media, Culture, and Communications, Middlesex, UK

2:43. Ian Bogost introduces Andrew Goffey. [irreverent note: both Bogost and Goffey could potentially play Jesus in a film]

2:43. Experimental metaphysics in Whitehead.

2:46. All related experience must display the same texture.

2:48. Goffey quoting many of Whitehead’s most brilliant passages, setting up his own argument nicely.

2:48. The history of hypnosis exemplifies Whitehead’s metaphysics in an interesting manner.

2:49. Hypnosis is an adventure that cannot be validated by science in the manner that even psychoanalysis attempts to seek scientific validation.

2:52. Goffey cites Didier Debaise. [I thought Debaise would be at this conference and was disappointed to learn from Stengers that he’s not coming.]

2:56. Whitehead seeks to civilize importance in Modes of Thought, and he does it through a highly technical process.

2:57. Subject/predicate structure of language is inscribed in the structure of Indo-European languages, as Benveniste says. So for Whitehead, language must be redesigned just as physical apparatus must be redesigned for the purposes of science.

2:59. The indeterminacy of current verbal expression for Whitehead.

3:01. From the point of view of experimental metaphysics, all capture is magic capture. Relation between magic and hypnosis.