Category: politics
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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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No Borders
No Borders Post Nationalism at ArtsLink Assembly on Thursday 5 November 2020. Here are two events from the recent ArtsLink Assembly. the first is a conversation with Nandita Sharma about her excellent book Home Rule and the second is a panel and discussion on no borders with Alex Sager. Thanks to everyone who organized and…
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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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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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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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Against Borders: Why the World Needs Free Movement of People (2020)
Can’t wait to read this! This book provides a philosophical defence of open borders. Two policy dogmas are the right of sovereign states to restrict immigration and the infeasibility of opening borders. These dogmas persist in face of the human suffering caused by border controls and in spite of a global economy where the…
The Philosophy of Movement 