(Graham Harman) Footnotes to Aristotle

DEAN'S LECTURE SERIES
Professor Harman, from Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), will deliver his lecture "Footnotes to Aristotle."
The title of this lecture is a riff on Alfred North Whitehead's famous remark that Western philosophy can be considered as a series of footnotes to Plato. The lecture will interpret the difference between Aristotle's Physics and Metaphysics as a difference between the continuous and the discrete, and will seek to develop further Aristotle's notion of "contact" as how two things meet (thereby bridging the gap between the continuous and the discrete).