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A Philosophy of the Insect, Jean-Marc Drouin (2019)
A Philosophy of the Insect Jean-Marc Drouin. Translated by Anne Trager. Columbia University Press The world of insects is at once beneath our feet and unfathomably alien. Small and innumerable, insects surround and disrupt us even as we scarcely pay them any mind. Insects confront us with the limits of what is imaginable, while…
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In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West, Wendy Brown
Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West, Columbia University Press, 2019 Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. Is this phenomenon the end of neoliberalism or its monstrous offspring? In the Ruins of Neoliberalism casts…
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CFP: The Fourth Meeting of the Critical Genealogies Workshop
CFP: The Fourth Meeting of the Critical Genealogies Workshop Submission deadline: April 15, 2020 Conference date(s): October 23, 2020 – October 24, 2020 Conference Venue: University of Richmond Richmond, United States Topic areas Continental Philosophy European Philosophy Social and Political Philosophy Details Call for Papers The Fourth Meeting of the Critical Genealogies Workshop University of…
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New Materialist Aesthetics and Pedagogy: An Interview with Thomas Nail By Katherine Robert
New Materialist Aesthetics and Pedagogy: An Interview with Thomas Nail By Katherine Robert September 19, 2019 Katherine Robert: You taught an aesthetics course this year and started the first day by saying DU has not taught aesthetics in a long time and it is taught less frequently in US philosophy departments than other areas of…
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A Short History of Aleatory Art
There is a long, albeit minor, tradition in Western art of emphasizing pedesis and feedback to varying degrees. In A Deluge, with a Falling Mountain and Collapsing Town (1515; figure 16.1), for example, Leonardo da Vinci states that he used the appearance of humidity and condensation on windows and walls as an inspiration for painting…
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The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot, translated by Matthew Sharpe and Federico Testa, Bloomsbury, 2019
Congratulations to Matthew and Federico on this incredible book! I can’t wait to read it. This collection of writings from Pierre Hadot (1992-2010) presents, for the first time, previously unreleased and in some cases untranslated materials from…
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New issue of Radical Philosophy published
The new Radical Philosophy issue is now online, with a dossier in memoriam of Sabah Mahmood, and contributions by Angela Davis, Elsa Dorlin, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and many others. Open access here – https://www.radicalphilosophy.com
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Climate, Capitalism, Control (Video by Ian Alan Paul)
Watch it here. The work aims to diagram the conjunctive power of planetary-scale computation, commodification, and climate change, and begins with the following voice-over: “Dispersed across the surface of Earth, computer clusters electronically hum in vast air-conditioned rooms. One models sea level rises, precipitation rates, temperature increases, and property values in coastal metropolises over the…
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Expansion / Expulsion (Review of The Figure of the Migrant)
I just came across a review of The Figure of the Migrant I had not seen before in New Formations, Vol. 89/90: Death and the Contemporary (2016): pp. 256-259. [DOI: 10.398/NEWF:89/90.REV06.2016] Expansion / Expulsion Kevin M. Potter Thomas Nail, The Figure of the Migrant. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2015, 295pp As the twenty-first-century political and social…
The Philosophy of Movement 