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Venus Voluptas: The Desire of Gods and Men
Edinburgh University Press has published a nice blog post on Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion (2018).
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Anthropocene Mobilities
This is going to be an incredible website worth checking out. The creators of the site are editing a special issue of the journal Mobilities on “Anthropocene Mobilities,” which should also be good. www.anthromob.space “Worlds in motion, tells different stories of human and non-human mobility in the present world of the Anthropocene. The different interventions paint…
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Being and Motion (2018)
My next book, Being and Motion is now available for pre-order here and here. Oxford says November, Amazon says December. “More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility; and yet, we lack a unifying theory which takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy.…
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Critical Perspectives on Migration in the Twenty-First Century (2018)
This is a nice collection of essays on migration in the twenty-first century from a number different scholars from different traditions. You can download my chapter, “The Centrality of the Migrant” here and follow the link to download the whole e-book for free.
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Six Theses on the Kinetic Transcendental
One. The transcendental is not a condition of possibility. There is no such thing as a condition of something that is merely possible if there are not already actual things that define the immanent relations of the field to begin with. Transcendental re- lations are therefore extrinsic and not intrinsic. Before there are folds distributed…
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The New Politics of Materialism: History, Philosophy, Science (2017)
This is a helpful book to start sorting through important political critiques and limitations of new materialism. Here. Here is an interesting essay related to a chapter in the collection by Keith Ansell-Pearson on “Deleuze and New Materialism“.
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Theo Jansen: New Forms of Life
Jansen’s kinetic art is a wonderful expression of the pedetic and relational nature of the inorganic life of motion. http://www.strandbeest.com (Thanks to Chris Gamble for sharing the link)
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Five Recent Books in Critical Theory (July)
The author of the contemporary classic, In the Dust of This Planet, is back with another raw and unsettling look at the human condition. Comprised of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, Thacker’s new book traces the contours of pessimism, caught as it often is between a philosophical position and a bad attitude.…
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Problems in twentieth century French philosophy
Great special issue on the idea of “problems” in French philosophy. michel-foucault.com/2018/08/01/angelaki-special-issue-problems-in-twentieth-century-french-philosophy-2018/
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The Philosophy of Movement 