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INDEXICALISM REALISM AND THE METAPHYSICS OF PARADOX Hilan Bensusan Indexicalism Speculative Realism Series Editor: Graham Harman Editorial Advisory Board Jane Bennett, Levi Bryant, Patricia Clough, Iain Hamilton Grant, Myra Hird, Adrian Johnston, Eileen A. Joy Books available Onto-Cartography: An Ontology of Machines and Media, Levi R. 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We publish academic books and journals in our selected subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, combining cutting-edge scholarship with high editorial and production values to produce academic works of lasting importance. For more information visit our website: edinburghuniversitypress.com © Hilan Bensusan, 2021 Edinburgh University Press Ltd The Tun – Holyrood Road 12(2f) Jackson’s Entry Edinburgh EH8 8PJ Typeset in 11/13 Adobe Sabon by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire, and printed and bound in Great Britain. A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 4744 8029 1 (hardback) ISBN 978 1 4744 8032 1 (webready PDF) ISBN 978 1 4744 8030 7 (paperback) ISBN 978 1 4744 8031 4 (epub) The right of Hilan Bensusan to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498). Contents Series Editor’s Preface viii Preface xi Introduction: Reality and Speculation 1 Speculative Realism and the Great Outdoors 1 Totality and Speculation 7 Other Dialogues 10 The Paradox of Deictic Speculation 11 1. Indexicalism: A Paradoxico-Metaphysics 14 Indexicalism 14 Paradoxico-Metaphysics 18 The Routes to Indexicalism (and Paradox) 19 Situated Metaphysics 21 Monadologies 23 Totality 28 Demonstratives and Proper Names 34 Tense Realism and Baroque Realism 39 Horizon 42 Measurement 44 Exteriority and Externalism 48 Proximity 53 Object-oriented 59 Tentacular Thinking 66 2. The Metaphysics of the Others 78 The Others 78 The Physis of the Others 81 Perspectivism 84 vi Indexicalism The Metaphysics of the Others in the Age of the Correlate 89 After Speculation 96 The Priority of the Others 99 The Interrupted Nexus 103 Process Metaphysics of the Others 111 Robinsonology and Transcendental Xenology 114 From the Other to the Great Outdoors 118 Perception and Supplement 126 3. The Hospitality of Perception 134 Doors of Perception 135 Hospitality and the Given 138 The Complexities of Receptivity 145 Importance and Supplement 150 Perceiving is Responding 154 Metaphysical Empiricism 159 Pan-perceptualism 161 Proximity, Conversation and Experience 167 Deictic Absolutes 171 Coda: The Circumscription of Potosí 184 Epistemic Abundance 184 The Potosí Principle 186 Ch’ixi 191 Being Up for Grabs 193 Absolutely Situated 197 Bibliography 201 Index 210 La réalité est de l’autre côté du mur. Edmond Jabès Series Editor’s Preface We frequently hear calls to ‘bridge the analytic–continental divide’ in philosophy, usually from people who believe that they them- selves embody such a bridge. The results are often disappointing: lukewarm interpretations of continental authors in terminology that happens to be socially acceptable in analytic departments. Hilan Bensusan is a different sort of animal: an author who is simply comfortable in both traditions without making much of a fuss about it. A native of Brazil, Bensusan is currently Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Brasília, where he is followed by an unusually enthusiastic and productive group of students. In his 2016 book Being Up for Grabs: On Speculative Anarchaeology, Bensusan displayed his prominent interest in turning from substance to accident and from necessity to con- tingency.1 Among the chief philosophical references of that book were Alfred North Whitehead, Gilbert Simondon, Saul Kripke and Quentin Meillassoux, though it concluded with a nod to Richard Rorty and Bruno Latour.2 The present work by Bensusan, Indexicalism, arguably makes an even bolder break with traditional ontologies. In the author’s own fine phrase, the book now before you ‘breaks with the spirit of a world of ultimate substantives presided over by an identity alien to the curvature of circumstances’.3 Grammatically speak- ing, an indexical is a word whose meaning depends entirely on its context: ‘you’, ‘me’, ‘here’ and ‘there’ are classic examples, 1 Hilan Bensusan, On Being Up for Grabs: On Speculative Anarchaeology (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016). 2 Bensusan, On Being Up for Grabs, pp. 195–6. 3 See this book, p. xi.
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