Outline of the Study of Movement 

Part I: Philosophy of Movement 

The first part of books studies patterns of motion in nature and human history from prehistory to modernity in the European-West.

  • Series I: A Theory of Movement 
    The first series introduces the concepts of flow, fold, and field and several patterns of motion to reinterpret the history of philosophy, ontology, art, science, politics, and nature from a movement-oriented perspective.
    • Volume I: The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction (Minnesota University Press, 2024)
    • Volume II: Being and Motion (Oxford University Press, 2018)
    • Volume III: The Figure of the Migrant (Stanford University Press, 2015)
    • Volume IV: Theory of the Border (Oxford University Press, 2016)
    • Volume V: Theory of the Image (Oxford University Press, 2019)
    • Volume VI: Theory of the Object (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
    • Volume VII: Theory of the Earth (Stanford University Press, 2021)

  • Series II: A History of Movement
    The second series looks closely at three exceptional thinkers in the Euro-West who held a movement-oriented perspective. 
    • Volume I: Matter and Motion: A Brief History of Kinetic Materialism (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
    • Volume II: Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)
    • Volume III: Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2020)
    • Volume IV: Lucretius III: A History of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)
    • Volume V: Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism (Oxford University Press, 2020)
    • Volume VI: Virginia Woolf and Philosophy: Moments of Becoming (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Part II: Cosmogony of Movement

The second part of books looks at the world’s oldest native-written cosmogonic texts showing that they all held a movement-oriented perspective that began disappearing around the 6th century BCE.

  • Series I: The Birth of Movement 
    The first series examines the relationship between movement and birth in world cosmogonies.    
    • Volume I: The Birth of Chaos
    • Volume II: The Birth of Order