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Theory of the Image (explained)
Bartosz Gonczarek at “Everything Explained” has put together a wonderful visual whiteboard of great quotes from Theory of the Image that I think hit some very important summary highlights from the book, especially Part III on the digital image. View it here.
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The Migrant Image
How can we think of art history as a discipline that moves process-based, performative, and cultural migratory movement to the center of its theoretical and methodical analyses? With contributions from internationally renowned experts, this manual, for the first time, provides answers as to what consequences the interaction of migration and globalization has on research…
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Theory of the Image is back in stock
Theory of the Image sold out in the first few days. Back orders are now shipping and the second printing is now available! Available from Amazon and OUP (30% off code: AAFLYG6) Read the introduction here. Read some selections on Cinema below. A Kinetic Theory of Cinema On the one hand, film is nothing other than a series of static…
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Theory of the Image (OUP, 2019) OUT NOW!
The book is now available from Amazon and shortly with OUP (30% off code: AAFLYG6) Read the introduction here. Read the Conclusion below. The Mobile Image We live in the age of the mobile image. Today, more than ever before, we are surrounded by hybrid images of all kinds that circulate freely and mix with contemporary images. This incredible…
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Against Nature, Lorraine Daston (2019)
A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders. Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior? From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America, up to the latest controversies over gay…
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Theory of the Image (Oxford University Press, 2019)
We live in an age of the mobile image. The world today is absolutely saturated with images of all kinds circulating around the world at an incredible rate. The movement of the image has never been more extraordinary than it is today. This recent kinetic revolution of the image has enormous consequences not only for…
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Mobile Borders (Confini Mobili)
For those of you who read Italian, Tommaso Morawski and Ernesto C. Sferrazza Papa have just published a lovely edited special issue on “Philosophy and Cartography” in Pólemos: Materiali di filosofia e critica sociale. FILOSOFIA E CARTOGRAFIA: PROSPETTIVE STORICHE, TEORICHE, ESTETICHE E POLITICHE Ernesto kindly translated my contribution: CONFINI MOBILI Thomas Nail Introduzione Questo saggio introduce una…
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The Nomadic Proletariat: An Interview with Alain Badiou
TRANSLATED AND CONDUCTED BY THOMAS NAIL The Centrality of the Migrant Thomas Nail: The sans-papiers are perhaps the single most cited example of a contemporary political event in all of your work. You say in De quoi Sarkozy est-il le nom? that their struggle “defines what is most important in politics today.” Why do the sans-papiers…
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Black Hole Sun: On the Materialist Sublime
The first image of black hole has just been released today. This is a profound and important aesthetic moment from a new materialist perspective. The image is not beautiful because we enjoy a free play of our imagination as we try to figure out what we are looking at and how it fits with our…
The Philosophy of Movement 