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Interview with Vicki Kirby
Interview with Vicki Kirby Daniel McLoughlin First Published September 7, 2019 Theory, Culture & Society https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276419868288 In this interview, Vicki Kirby discusses her research into the relationship between nature and culture, focusing in particular on her recent edited collection, What If Culture Was Nature All Along? The volume appears in the ‘New Materialisms’ series, and…
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The Super Zoom Down to Quantum Gravity (Watch)
CG animation of amazing zoom to macro view to the “quantum world”, shown on an approximate scale of the reality of physics. (Thanks to Chris Gamble for this one)
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Migrant Climate in the Kinocene
Andrew Baldwin, Christiane Fröhlich & Delf Rothe have just edited a wonderful special issue of Mobilities on “Anthropocene Mobilities” Here. You can read my contribution here [free] or at MOBILITIES 2019, VOL. 14, NO. 3, 375–380. In this intervention, I put forward five short theses on the topic of ‘Anthropocene mobilities.’ My aim is not to unpack every concept…
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These Kinetic Sculptures Hypnotize You
These sculptures are so organic and so iterative. They are such a great example of the woven structure of singularities and wholes in nature. Watch the video interview with the artist, Anthony Howe, here.
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Paul Stamets, Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet (2019)
Contributions from Michael Pollan, Andrew Weil, Eugenia Bone, and many more expterts make Fantastic Fungi an awe-inspiring visual journey through the exotic, little-known realm of fungi and its amazing potential to positively influence our lives. An all-star team of professional and amateur mycologists, artists, foodies, ecologists, doctors, and explorers joined forces with time-lapse master Louie Schwartzberg…
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Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion (Reviewed)
Hiram Crespo has written a nice series of blog posts reviewing Lucretius I at societyofepicurus.com. They were written last year (2018) and I am happy to have found them. He highlights some nice connections to Epicurus. You can read the review posts here.
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Being and Motion reviewed by Michael J. Bennett
Thomas Nail, Being and Motion Aug 30, 2019 Thomas Nail, Being and Motion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018; 544 pages. ISBN: 978-0190908911. Reviewed by Michael J. Bennett, University of King’s College. Thomas Nail’s ambitious philosophical project starts with the diagnosis that today we live in the “Age of Motion.” Politics, aesthetics and science have…
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Theory of the Image (explained)
Bartosz Gonczarek at “Everything Explained” has put together a wonderful visual whiteboard of great quotes from Theory of the Image that I think hit some very important summary highlights from the book, especially Part III on the digital image. View it here.
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The Migrant Image
How can we think of art history as a discipline that moves process-based, performative, and cultural migratory movement to the center of its theoretical and methodical analyses? With contributions from internationally renowned experts, this manual, for the first time, provides answers as to what consequences the interaction of migration and globalization has on research…
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