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Posthuman Ecologies: Complexity and Process after Deleuze, Edited by Rosi Braidotti and Simone Bignall (2018)
The devolved and dispersed character of human agency and moral responsibility in the contemporary condition appears linked with the deepening global trauma of ‘inhumanism’ as a paradox of the Anthropocene. Reclaiming human agency and accountability appears crucial for collective resistance to the unprecedented state of environmental and social collapse resulting from the inhumanity of contemporary…
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Favorite Writing Music of 2018
These were my favorite albums to write to that came out in 2018. When I write I listen to only instrumental music and find that it helps me focus. I hope they help you too. Happy New New Year! 1) Shida Shahabi, Homes 2) Zoë Keating, Snowmelt 3) Nils Frahm, All Melody 4) Ólafur…
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Favorite Movies, 2018 (Steven Shaviro)
Steven Shaviro has posted his top films for the year. Looks like a missed a few! These are my favorite movies of 2018. I won’t call this a best films list, since there are so many movies I still haven’t seen (for instance, Mandy, Let the Sunshine In, A Star is Born, Vox Lux, If…
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Militant Acts The Role of Investigations in Radical Political Struggles, Marcelo Hoffman (Jan 2019)
This looks great! Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward. Militant Acts presents a broad history of the concept and practice of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century to the present. Radicals launched investigations into the conditions and struggles of the oppressed…
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Asylum Report from the US-Mexico border (Dec, 2018)
This report looks like essential reading for understanding what is going on at the US-Mexico border right now. Thanks to @_gesanchez for sharing this! The report is based on fieldwork conducted during this past November on 8 regions along the US Mexico border. It involves extensive observations at ports of entry, extensive caselaw analysis and…
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Sanctuary, Solidarity, Status!, Thomas Nail (2018)
I just got my copy of Open Borders, edited by Reece Jones. This is a landmark collection of work on open borders and is filled with excellent contributions. I will definitely be teaching from this! You can read my chapter from the book here. Abstract The aim of this chapter is to describe the current possible…
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Being and Motion, Thomas Nail (2018) Published Dec 10th
Being and Motion is officially published and available today. Buy at Oxford Buy at Amazon More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility; and yet, we lack a unifying theory which takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy. The history of philosophy…
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The Poetry of Georges Bataille, George Bataille, translated by Stuart Kendall (2018)
Just got my copy in the mail yesterday. Presents a new window into the literary, philosophical, and theological concerns of this enigmatic thinker and writer. Despite its relative rarity, and the condensed brevity of the poems themselves, poetry occupies a striking place in the literary and philosophical oeuvre of Georges Bataille. For Bataille, poetry had…
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The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism, Elizabeth Grosz (2018) Paperback
Philosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism―either a radical separation of mind and body or the reduction of mind to body. But from its origins in the writings of the Stoics, the first thoroughgoing materialists, another view has acknowledged that no forms of materialism can be completely self-inclusive―space,…
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A Companion To Marx’s Capital: The Complete Edition, David Harvey (2018)
The radical geographer guides us through the classic text of political economy In recent years, we have witnessed a surge of interest in Marx’s work in an effort to understand the origins of our current political and economic crisis. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the…
The Philosophy of Movement 