• Philosophy in a Time of Pandemic

    Philosophy in a Time of Pandemic

    The journal Philosophy Today has a new special issue on “Philosophy in a Time of Pandemic.” It looks like it is all online for free here. It’s a big issue with many short articles. I have a piece in there as well. You can read it below or download here. Special Issue: Philosophy In A…

    Thomas Nail

    January 30, 2021
    Uncategorized
  • A Tale of Two (More) Crises: Migration and Bioterrorism during the Pandemic

    The journal Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism has just published a blog post I wrote here. Image credit: Steve Hillebrand, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Licensed under CC0 for Public Domain Dedication. The current pandemic is another crisis being turned against immigrants. Five years after the terrorist attacks on Paris in November 2015 migrants are again being treated…

    Thomas Nail

    January 13, 2021
    Uncategorized
  • Favorite Writing Music of 2020

    Happy 2021! These are my favorite albums to write to that came out in 2020. This year I decided not to narrow the list to 10, but the first 10 on this list were my favorite. There was a lot of good writing music this year, but these are only the albums I listened to…

    Thomas Nail

    January 10, 2021
    music, writing
    writing, writing music
  • What are the Migrant Arts?

    Thirty years ago, there were fifteen border walls around the world. Now, there are seventy walls and over one billion national and international migrants. International migrants alone may even double in the next forty years due to global warming. It is not surprising that we have also seen the rise of an increasingly powerful global…

    Thomas Nail

    December 28, 2020
    Uncategorized
  • Writing Migration

    The journal Konturen has just published a special issue on “Writing Migration,” which looks wonderful. You can read it free online here. I have an article in the issue as well. Thank you to Jeffrey Librett for organizing and editing this! Konturen, Vol 11 (2020) Writing Migration This issue edited by Jeffrey S. Librett with…

    Thomas Nail

    December 10, 2020
    aesthetics, aesthetics of movement, borders, ethics, migration, movement, new materialism, no borders, philosophy, Philosophy of Movement, politics, Uncategorized
  • Migrant Climate in the Kinocene

    This is a video recording of a lecture for the Academy of Mobility Humanities in Seoul, South Korea.

    Thomas Nail

    December 7, 2020
    anthropocene, borders, Climate Change, Environment, ethics, marxism, materialism, migration, movement, philosophy, Uncategorized
  • Moving Borders

    Here is a video of my keynote lecture “Moving Borders” from B/Ordering Cultures. B/ORDERING CULTURES: EVERYDAY LIFE, POLITICS, AESTHETICS 6th Annual Conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, e.V. European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) 8 — 10 October 2020. Thanks to Maria Klessmann and the others who invited me and helped organize the event and edit the…

    Thomas Nail

    November 30, 2020
    borders, ethics, materialism, migration, movement, no borders, philosophy, Philosophy of Movement, politics
  • Theory of the Earth (Stanford University Press, 2021)

    We need a new philosophy of the earth. Geological time used to refer to slow and gradual processes, but today we are watching land sink into the sea and forests transform into deserts. We can even see the creation of new geological strata made of plastic, chicken bones, and other waste that could remain in…

    Thomas Nail

    November 24, 2020
    biology, Climate Change, Environment, ethics, Origins of Life, philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Movement, Philosophy of Plants, Uncategorized, Vegetal Philosophy
  • Theory of the Earth (Stanford University Press, 2021)

    We need a new philosophy of the earth. Geological time used to refer to slow and gradual processes, but today we are watching land sink into the sea and forests transform into deserts. We can even see the creation of new geological strata made of plastic, chicken bones, and other waste that could remain in…

    Thomas Nail

    November 24, 2020
    Animality, anthropocene, biology, Climate Change, Environment, movement, new materialism, Origins of Life, philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Movement, Philosophy of Plants, politics, science, Vegetal Philosophy
  • No Borders

    No Borders Post Nationalism at ArtsLink Assembly on Thursday 5 November 2020. Here are two events from the recent ArtsLink Assembly. the first is a conversation with Nandita Sharma about her excellent book Home Rule and the second is a panel and discussion on no borders with Alex Sager. Thanks to everyone who organized and…

    Thomas Nail

    November 9, 2020
    borders, ethics, migration, movement, no borders, politics, Uncategorized
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