Category: Philosophy 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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Moving Borders
Here is a video of my keynote lecture “Moving Borders” from B/Ordering Cultures. B/ORDERING CULTURES: EVERYDAY LIFE, POLITICS, AESTHETICS 6th Annual Conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, e.V. European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) 8 — 10 October 2020. Thanks to Maria Klessmann and the others who invited me and helped organize the event and edit the…
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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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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…
The Philosophy of Movement 