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Migrant Cosmopolitanism (A Talk Given at Lund University, Sweden)
Here is the talk I gave today at Lund University, Sweden. Introduction The twenty-first century will be the century of the migrant. At the turn of the twenty-first century, there were more migrants than ever before in recorded history. Today there are over 1 billion migrants. Migration has risen by nearly 50 percent since…
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Borders as Weapons
I am giving a couple talks in Sweden this week. Below is the first one given at Linköping University earlier today. Thank you to Stefan Jonsson and Peo Hansen for inviting me and sharing a copy of their book Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism (2014). Borders as Weapons The twenty-first century will…
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We are entering a new epoch: the century of the migrant
The rhetoric of migrant “invasions” is back again. Donald Trump has recently described the caravan of Central American refugees marching to the US as “an onslaught,” “an assault on our country,” and an “invasion,” repeating the words of Robert Bowers, who shot can killed 11 Jews in a Pittsburgh Synagogue for supporting the refugees. The…
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Political Geology: Active Stratigraphies and the Making of Life (Palgrave 2018), ed. Adam Bobbette and Amy Donovan
“This book explores the emerging field of political geology, an area of study dedicated to understanding the cross-sections between geology and politics. It considers how geological forces such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and unstable ground are political forces and how political forces have an impact on the earth. Together the authors seek to understand how the…
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From What Shore Does Socialism Arrive?
This is the best thing I have read on the Caravan so far. Viewpoint Magazine November 7, 2018 Ultimately, no doubt, the left in the United States will have to confront the fact that there is never likely to be an ‘American revolution’ as classically imagined by DeLeon, Debs or Cannon. If socialism is to…
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Questioning New Materialisms (2018)
This looks like an interesting new edited issue of Theory, Culture, and Society on New Materialism. Right now only the introduction to the collection is online and the rest of the collection is soon to follow. (Behind a paywall, see the link below to SAGE). Questioning New Materialisms: An Introduction Charles Devellennes, Benoît Dillet…
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The Return to Lucretius III
We are witnessing a return to Lucretius. What felt like early shoots in 2014 are today now starting to bear fruit in numerous recent books breaking with the received tradition. My work on Lucretius is now part of a handful of new works offering contemporary interpretations of Lucretius. The authors of this return offer different…
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4 Recent Critical Theory Audio Books
Theory of the Border (2016) Thomas Nail Like a Thief in Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Humanity (2018) Slavoj Žižek How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (2017) Eduardo Kohn The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (2017) Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
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“Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science” NYT, Oct 25th 2018
He spent decades deconstructing the ways that scientists claim their authority. Can his ideas help them regain that authority today? Read the New York Times article here.
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Figures of the Migrant in the Arts I
Last week I gave a plenary talk at a wonderful conference at Le Mans Université, France. You can see the program here. The event brought together many important studies of migrant literature, poetry, film, and performance art. We are without a doubt witnessing an explosion in the creation of migrant histories and arts of all…
The Philosophy of Movement 