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CFP: The Fourth Meeting of the Critical Genealogies Workshop
CFP: The Fourth Meeting of the Critical Genealogies Workshop Submission deadline: April 15, 2020 Conference date(s): October 23, 2020 – October 24, 2020 Conference Venue: University of Richmond Richmond, United States Topic areas Continental Philosophy European Philosophy Social and Political Philosophy Details Call for Papers The Fourth Meeting of the Critical Genealogies Workshop University of…
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New Materialist Aesthetics and Pedagogy: An Interview with Thomas Nail By Katherine Robert
New Materialist Aesthetics and Pedagogy: An Interview with Thomas Nail By Katherine Robert September 19, 2019 Katherine Robert: You taught an aesthetics course this year and started the first day by saying DU has not taught aesthetics in a long time and it is taught less frequently in US philosophy departments than other areas of…
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A Short History of Aleatory Art
There is a long, albeit minor, tradition in Western art of emphasizing pedesis and feedback to varying degrees. In A Deluge, with a Falling Mountain and Collapsing Town (1515; figure 16.1), for example, Leonardo da Vinci states that he used the appearance of humidity and condensation on windows and walls as an inspiration for painting…
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The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot, translated by Matthew Sharpe and Federico Testa, Bloomsbury, 2019
Congratulations to Matthew and Federico on this incredible book! I can’t wait to read it. This collection of writings from Pierre Hadot (1992-2010) presents, for the first time, previously unreleased and in some cases untranslated materials from…
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New issue of Radical Philosophy published
The new Radical Philosophy issue is now online, with a dossier in memoriam of Sabah Mahmood, and contributions by Angela Davis, Elsa Dorlin, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and many others. Open access here – https://www.radicalphilosophy.com
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Climate, Capitalism, Control (Video by Ian Alan Paul)
Watch it here. The work aims to diagram the conjunctive power of planetary-scale computation, commodification, and climate change, and begins with the following voice-over: “Dispersed across the surface of Earth, computer clusters electronically hum in vast air-conditioned rooms. One models sea level rises, precipitation rates, temperature increases, and property values in coastal metropolises over the…
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Expansion / Expulsion (Review of The Figure of the Migrant)
I just came across a review of The Figure of the Migrant I had not seen before in New Formations, Vol. 89/90: Death and the Contemporary (2016): pp. 256-259. [DOI: 10.398/NEWF:89/90.REV06.2016] Expansion / Expulsion Kevin M. Potter Thomas Nail, The Figure of the Migrant. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2015, 295pp As the twenty-first-century political and social…
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(CFP) Association for Borderlands Studies, Annual Conference, 2020, April 1-4, Portland Oregon
2020 Annual Conference April 1-4, 2020 Portland, Oregon, USA Marriott Downtown Waterfront 1401 SW Naito Pkwy In contrast to the complexity and differentiation suggested by much recent academic literature, borders continue to be conceived of and represented by mainstream politics and the media in an overly simplistic way. Much recent political and public debate…
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Moving Borders
This book brings together insights from border scholars and philosophers to ask how we are to define and understand concepts of borders today. Borders have a defining role in contemporary societies. Take, for example, the 2016 US election and the UK Brexit referendum, and subsequent debate, where the rhetoric and symbolism of border controls proved…
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The Philosophy of Movement 