The Lexicon · Genealogy · Contemporary
STENGERS, ISABELLE
b. 1949
Cosmopolitics (The Lexicon as Slowdown)
Stengers: cosmopolitics is the deliberate slowing of progress to allow other-than-modern beings to articulate their stake in the present. CoCA's Lexicon — with Hegel beside Han, Aquinas beside Anscombe, Žižek beside Zhuangzi — performs a small cosmopolitical slowdown. We refuse to harmonize. We file. The reader navigates the heterogeneity. The institution does not synthesize the parties. The institution holds the table.