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Being and Motion, 2018 (Free Download)
Download a preview of Being and Motion here. [30% off Code at OUP: AAFLYG6]
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La Naturaleza Continua o Discreta?
A Spanish translation of “Is Nature Continuous or Discrete?: How the Atomist Error was Born,” originally published here at Aeon has just been translated into Spanish by Julian Martin Berrio and published with http://www.elmalpensante.com You can also download it here
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Material Ecology: Neri Oxman’s Generative Design
Oxman’s design takes seriously the ecology and movement of matter. Designer and architect Neri Oxman is leading the search for ways in which digital fabrication technologies can interact with the biological world. Working at the intersection of computational design, additive manufacturing, materials engineering and synthetic biology, her lab is pioneering a new age of symbiosis…
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Poetry in Motion: On A.R. Ammons’ “Corsons Inlet”
The stanza formation ripples, rises, and falls like waves. The poem both speaks about and performs the movement of the sea, dunes, reeds, birds, and fish at the same time. Form yields to the material process of undulation and continuous deformation. Life and death become the Janus faces of entropy. In nature there are…
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The Return to Lucretius II
Lucretius’ method of philosophical poetry is a radical departure from the Greek tradition of philosophy from Thales to Aristotle and Epicurus (with the rare exception of Empedocles, Parmenides, and Xenophanes). Almost without exception, Homeric-style poetry was reduced to irrational and sensuous mythology by Greek philosophers eager to define their new abstraction and idealism against the straw man…
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How Philosopher Paul Virilio (1932-2018) Spoke to an Age of Acceleration and Total War by McKenzie Wark
Paul Virilio (1932-2018) – obituary at Frieze by McKenzie Wark. How Philosopher Paul Virilio (1932-2018) Spoke to an Age of Acceleration and Total War by McKenzie Wark Strangely enough, Paul Virilio, who died on 10 September 2018 at the age of 86, breached the Anglophone world…
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Total Surveillance = Social Credit
Black Mirror s3e1 “nosedive” completely nailed this one. http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship/10200278?pfmredir=sm
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Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (2018)
Latour’s new book on the “politics of the earth.” “The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most people. What holds these three phenomena together is…
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Brian Massumi, 99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value: A Postcapitalist Manifesto (2018)
Massumi’s new book has just been published with Minnesota. here. Looks interesting.
The Philosophy of Movement 