Category: new materialism
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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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Theory of the Earth (Stanford University Press, 2021)
We need a new philosophy of the earth. Geological time used to refer to slow and gradual processes, but today we are watching land sink into the sea and forests transform into deserts. We can even see the creation of new geological strata made of plastic, chicken bones, and other waste that could remain in…
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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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Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism (Audiobook)
My book on Marx is now available for download at Audible. Marx in Motion A New Materialist Marxism By: Thomas Nail Narrated by: Paul Boehmer Length: 12 hrs Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 10-27-20 Language: English Publisher: Tantor Audio Publisher’s Summary Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since…
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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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What is Object Oriented Ontology? What is Actor Network Theory? What is the Philosophy of Movement?
What is an object? One interesting way to avoid the problem of getting the subject and object back together to secure knoweldge is by not introducing the division in the first place. What if everything was only objects? We could then think of the subject as a highly composite type of object. Before proposing my…
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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…
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Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism (OUP, 2020)
“Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have witnessed a rebirth of his popular appeal. In a world of rising income inequality, right-wing nationalisms, and global climate change, people are again looking to the father of modern socialism for answers. …
The Philosophy of Movement 