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Philosophy in a Time of Pandemic
The journal Philosophy Today has a new special issue on “Philosophy in a Time of Pandemic.” It looks like it is all online for free here. It’s a big issue with many short articles. I have a piece in there as well. You can read it below or download here. Special Issue: Philosophy In A…
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A Tale of Two (More) Crises: Migration and Bioterrorism during the Pandemic
The journal Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism has just published a blog post I wrote here. Image credit: Steve Hillebrand, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Licensed under CC0 for Public Domain Dedication. The current pandemic is another crisis being turned against immigrants. Five years after the terrorist attacks on Paris in November 2015 migrants are again being treated…
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What are the Migrant Arts?
Thirty years ago, there were fifteen border walls around the world. Now, there are seventy walls and over one billion national and international migrants. International migrants alone may even double in the next forty years due to global warming. It is not surprising that we have also seen the rise of an increasingly powerful global…
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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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Migrant Climate in the Kinocene
This is a video recording of a lecture for the Academy of Mobility Humanities in Seoul, South Korea.
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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: 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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The Material Unconscious: Against Utilitarianism
There is nothing in the mind that has not first been in the senses and nothing in the senses that has not already been in nature. This is the bold argument at the heart of Lucretius’ radical naturalism. The consequences of this simple idea are profound and have several ethical implications. The argument of this…
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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…
The Philosophy of Movement 