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Material Ecology: Neri Oxman’s Generative Design
Oxman’s design takes seriously the ecology and movement of matter. Designer and architect Neri Oxman is leading the search for ways in which digital fabrication technologies can interact with the biological world. Working at the intersection of computational design, additive manufacturing, materials engineering and synthetic biology, her lab is pioneering a new age of symbiosis…
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Poetry in Motion: On A.R. Ammons’ “Corsons Inlet”
The stanza formation ripples, rises, and falls like waves. The poem both speaks about and performs the movement of the sea, dunes, reeds, birds, and fish at the same time. Form yields to the material process of undulation and continuous deformation. Life and death become the Janus faces of entropy. In nature there are…
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The Return to Lucretius II
Lucretius’ method of philosophical poetry is a radical departure from the Greek tradition of philosophy from Thales to Aristotle and Epicurus (with the rare exception of Empedocles, Parmenides, and Xenophanes). Almost without exception, Homeric-style poetry was reduced to irrational and sensuous mythology by Greek philosophers eager to define their new abstraction and idealism against the straw man…
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How Philosopher Paul Virilio (1932-2018) Spoke to an Age of Acceleration and Total War by McKenzie Wark
Paul Virilio (1932-2018) – obituary at Frieze by McKenzie Wark. How Philosopher Paul Virilio (1932-2018) Spoke to an Age of Acceleration and Total War by McKenzie Wark Strangely enough, Paul Virilio, who died on 10 September 2018 at the age of 86, breached the Anglophone world…
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Total Surveillance = Social Credit
Black Mirror s3e1 “nosedive” completely nailed this one. http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship/10200278?pfmredir=sm
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Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (2018)
Latour’s new book on the “politics of the earth.” “The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most people. What holds these three phenomena together is…
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Brian Massumi, 99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value: A Postcapitalist Manifesto (2018)
Massumi’s new book has just been published with Minnesota. here. Looks interesting.
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Figures of the Migrant: Structure and Resistance
The most recent issue of Cultural Dynamics features two nice review essays of my book, The Figure of the Migrant (2015) and my response to them here. It is behind a paywall, but you can download my response essay for free here. Also, my response is posted below. Kinetic structures The Figure of the Migrant is neither a history…
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The Return to Lucretius, Part I
A new Lucretius is coming into view today. Every epoch returns to him like bees returning to their flower fields in search of nourishment. Each time, though, our return is different like the expanding arch of an iterated spiral. We bring new questions, find new answers, and make Lucretius speak to us again as if…
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The Philosophy of Movement 