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Why read Lucretius when you can read Epicurus and Homer? Here’s why.
Here is a short introduction to my Lucretius book project I wrote for Book Launch Magazine… Every great historical epoch returns to Lucretius like bees returning to their flower fields in search of nourishment. I first returned to Lucretius in 2014, when I taught Book II of De Rerum Natura for a class on…
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Get a free ebook of Lucretius I when you buy Lucretius II
Find out where it all started: we’re offering a free ebook of Lucretius I when you buy a copy of Lucretius II. Just add a copy of Lucretius II (paperback, hardback or ebook) and a Lucretius Iebook to your basket, and enter the code Lucretius2 when you check out. Visit the webpage for Lucretius I…
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What is the Philosophy of Movement? IV
This is a short excerpt on the philosophy of movement from a recent interview I did with Nico Buitendag for Undisciplined Podcast. Nico Buitendag: When we first begin to look at the world through motion, what are some of the first things that were previously obscured that suddenly—at least then for you when you started…
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The Philosophy of Movement at a Glance
As more books of mine come out people have been asking me how they all fit together. I have been meaning to create a single table showing my philosophy of movement and how all the books fit together, so here it is, or at least how I have been imagining it so far. So…
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The Politics of Movement: An Interview with Thomas Nail
Here is an interview I did on the politics of movement with Nico Buitendag for his podcast, Undisciplined. The last three interviews were with Andrew Culp, Sandro Mezzadra, and Simon Springer. Check them all out here.
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Understanding the Coronavirus Pandemic with Foucault? by Philipp Sarasin
Here is a section from one of the best theoretical analyses I have read on the coronavirus so far. Read the full article here. 4. SOME CONCLUSIONS WITH REGARD TO CORONA ↑ It is clear that Foucault did not speak of real pandemics but that he used infectious diseases as models of thought in order…
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3 pandemic predictions from Lucretius How being afraid of death is making some people less ethical
3 pandemic predictions from Lucretius How being afraid of death is making some people less ethical The global spread of the coronavirus has forced us to confront our own mortality, and fears about illness and death weigh heavily on the minds of many. But there’s a risk that fear for our own life will outweigh…
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Gendered Ecologies New Materialist Interpretations of Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century (Clemson University Press, 2020) Edited by Dewey W. Hall and Jillmarie Murphy
This looks like a great collection. Unfortunately, its only in $120 hardback right now. Gendered Ecologies: New Materialist Interpretations of Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century considers the value of interrelationships that exist among human, nonhuman species, and inanimate objects as part of the environment, and features observations by women writers as recorded in…
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The Deleuze Seminars, Website Launch
**I have been on the editorial team for years for this project and today we are launching our NEH funded website. It is by far the most comprehensive collection of Deleuze’s seminars on the internet. The Deleuze Seminars We are delighted to announce the virtual launch of a new archive site, The Deleuze Seminars (deleuze.cla.purdue.edu), devoted…
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Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion (EUP, 2020) is out now!
Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion is now available for 30% off. Edinburgh University Press: UK discount coupon code: NEW30 Oxford University Press: US discount coupon code: ADISTA5 ‘With Lucretius II, Thomas Nail continues his project of re-reading Lucretius’ De rerum natura in a startlingly new fashion – as a foundational text in the philosophy…
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