Category: aesthetics of movement
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Writing Migration
The journal Konturen has just published a special issue on “Writing Migration,” which looks wonderful. You can read it free online here. I have an article in the issue as well. Thank you to Jeffrey Librett for organizing and editing this! Konturen, Vol 11 (2020) Writing Migration This issue edited by Jeffrey S. Librett with…
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Lucretius: Our Contemporary (Video Lecture at University of Warwick)
Here is the video recording of a lecture I recently gave at University of Warwick as part of The Center for Post-Kantian European Philosophy. University of Warwick, 3 November 2020
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LUCRETIUS: NATURE UNFOUNDED (A Call for Papers)
K. Revue trans-européenne de philosophie et arts Université de Lille, Laboratoire Cecille https://revue-k.univ-lille.fr/ Call for papers YEAR IV 2021 (1), 6 LUCRETIUS: NATURE UNFOUNDED Bench’io sappia che obblio preme chi troppo all’età propria increbbe K. proposes an issue dedicated to the figure and thought of Titus Lucretius Carus because thinking about nature appears to be…
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Preface to the Korean Translation of Being and Motion
Why has something as simple as movement posed such enormous difficulties for philosophers and scientists? Why have the greatest minds of civilization dedicated their lives to discovering something genuinely immobile that would explain motion? Aristotle’s “unmoved mover,” Archimedes’ fixed “point,” Descartes’ “unmoveable” certainty, Newton’s divine clockmaker, and even Einstein’s idea of a block universe were…
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Time Will Tell: An Interview with Thomas Nail
October 2, 2020 Here is an interview I did with Chris Rawls for the American Philosophical Association blog here as part of a series on the philosophy of time. You can download the article here. Thomas Nail is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the author of seven books; his most…
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THE EXPERIENCE OF THE WORK OF ART
The experience of the work of art contains two double-genitive dimensions rarely attended to in the philosophy of art. The first double genitive concerns the experience of the work of art. Experience in is this sense is both something the work of art has—as its own material capacity for sensory receptivity—and something the work…
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What is the Philosophy of Movement? V: Art and Objects
This is a short excerpt on the philosophy of movement from a recent interview I did with Nico Buitendag for Undisciplined Podcast. Nico: I can imagine and I take my hat off to you. So I also want to move on to some of your other work but still within this broader theme. I believe…
The Philosophy of Movement 