Speculative Empiricism, Nature and the Question of Predatory Abstractions: A Conversation with Didier Debaise

In conversation 1 with Didier Debaise, this piece thinks transversally across Nature as Event (2017a) and Speculative Empiricism (2017b) to explore some of the key stakes in his philosophy, namely: relationship between task thinking a speculative empiricism problem bifurcation nature. Engaging themes nature, abstraction, dualism, pragmatism, role stories dramatizing our sensitivity world, develops Debaise’s contribution theorising alternative modes knowledge experience capable admitting those infra-sensible, inaudible, or imperceptible qualities events. Distinctly, Debaise introduces here ‘predatory abstractions’ one way understand bifurcation. Ethically, question predatory abstractions makes new demands on social sciences: story deepening