title: Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible (Thought in the Act)
author:  Didier Debaise 
description: <DIV>&ldquo;The takeaway of Debaise&rsquo;s careful analysis is a robust and persuasive understanding of the ontology of affect, and affect as valuation&ndash;the feeling of the world in its allness and being moved by it according to what is of interest and importance to the societies we are and are becoming.&rdquo;</DIV> (M. Gail Hamner <i>affecognitive</i> 2018-01-19)<br /><br /><DIV><P>&quot;As Debaise puts it: &#39;What is needed is a philosophy that, in its very form, its ambition and its manners of relating to things, can grant due importance to the deeply plural experience of nature.&#39;&#160;This is the philosophy to which Debaise has opened us&#160;in his reading of Whitehead.&quot;</P></DIV> (Patricia Ticineto Clough <i>Critical Inquiry</i> 2018-04-01)
zlib_text: Table of Contents
  Popular Culture and Philosophy
  Title Page
  Invitation
  Ecology of Muad’Dib
  Facing the Gom Jabbar Test
  He Who Can Destroy a Thing Controls It
  Thou Shalt Not Make a Machine in the Likeness of a Man’s Mind
  Humans Must Never Submit to Animals
  Humans Live Best when Each Has His Own Place, when Each Knows
  where He Belongs ...
  The End of the Story
  The Golden Path of Eugenics
  Nature Groomed: The Bene Gesserit
  Nature Denatured: Leto II
  Nature Subverted: The Bene Tleilax
  The (Single) Garden Path
  Shifting Sand, Shifting Balance
  Making a Clausewitz Ghola
  Clausewitz’s Trinity
  Ernesto “Usul” Guevara
  In for a Ducal Seat, in for an Imperial Throne
  From the Deserts of Arrakis to the Deserts of Earth
  Curse of the Golden Path
  The Trap of Prescience
  Paul Atreides: Kwisatz Haderach?
  Belief, Justified, True
  
  The Paradox of Foreknowledge
  I Am the Book of Fate
  God’s Knowledge and Free Will
  Demons of Prediction
  On the Balancing of Probabilities
  Intending the Way Out
  Politics of Muad’Dib
  The Ame