
In his beautiful and powerful book, The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture (2021), our friend, Emilios Christodoulidis, reads one of his – and our – favourite thinkers, Simone Weil, and says of her ‘precious contribution’ (for example, in her reading of the Iliad) that she shows us how:
Attention inserts the distance between that which is understood as ‘pure momentum’, impacts as fact, and is lived as compulsion, and a reflexivity that endows life with grace. (Christodoulidis, 2021, 53)
In this series of blogposts, a group of us – friends of Emilios who have often spoken with him, and together, about the work of Weil – return to it and think again, with Weil, about friendship, labour, and attention.
Maksymilian Del Mar and Scott Veitch
Many of us readers of CLT are looking forward to this!