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I Know There Are So Many of You, Alain Badiou (2018)
The history of humanity has only just begun. The Neolithic Revolution may have endowed us with unparalleled means of communication, subsistence, and knowledge acquisition. However, it is clear in today’s world that inequality, power hierarchies, and violence persist on a greater scale than ever before. In these two lectures, delivered to the large number of…
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Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities (2018)
Nice collection forthcoming in Dec 2018. Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities, Erik Swyngedouw & Henrik Ernstson, Eds., Routledge, 2018 This looks like a great paper on the importance of ecological value theory. Excerpt from “Value, Nature & The Vortex Of Accumulation,” Jason Moore and Richard Walker Why bother with value theory?…
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Entangled Worlds (2017)
Historically speaking, theology can be said to operate “materiaphobically.” Protestant Christianity in particular has bestowed upon theology a privilege of the soul over the body and belief over practice, in line with the distinction between a disembodied God and the inanimate world “He” created. Like all other human, social, and natural sciences, religious studies imported…
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Premonitions, AK Thompson (2018)
Now available! Order for 25% off the list price for a limited time. Bringing together a decade of AK Thompson’s essays on the culture of revolt, Premonitions offers an engaged assessment of contemporary radical politics. Inspired by Walter Benjamin and addressing themes ranging from violence and representation to Romanticism and death, Thompson combines scholarship and grassroots grit…
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What Is Real? | Giorgio Agamben
Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most talented physicist of his generation vanished without leaving a trace? It has long been speculated that Majorana decided to abandon physics, disappearing because he had…
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Two Recent Articles on New Materialism
The Head, the Hand, and Matter: New Materialism and the Politics of Knowledge P Rekret – Theory, Culture & Society, 2018 This article seeks to examine the political connotations of a recent ‘material turn’ in social and political theory and its implications for theorizations of political agency. ‘New materialist’ theories are premised upon transcending the…
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The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, Jasbir K. Puar (2017)
I missed this one from last year, but it looks great. Description In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of “debility”—bodily injury…
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The Birth of Nomos, Thanos Zartaloudis (2018)
This book looks absolutely essential. My only resource on this important term for the last decade has been Emmanuel Laroche, Histoire de la racine nem- en grec ancien (nemō, nemesis, nomos, nomizō) (1949). Delves into the history of the ancient Greek word nomos (and related words) to reveal the interdisciplinary depth of this term beyond its…
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Recently Published Articles on New Materialism
Curiosity, Criticality and Materiality Can E. Mutlu in conversation with Mark B. Salter Technologies of International Relations pp 45-53 Abstract In this chapter Mark B. Salter, current editor of Security Dialogue, discusses with Can E. Mutlu the meaning and significance of technology for International Relations in light of his eclectic work. Salter, perhaps best-known for…
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Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity, ed Maria Voyatzaki (2018)
This is looks like a great collection, but the hardback price is $80! Maps materiality’s importance in the emergent posthuman future of architecture This book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. They all argue that matter in contemporary posthuman times has to be rethought in its rich…
The Philosophy of Movement 