Tag: immigration
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The Climate-Migration-Industrial Complex
I just published a short piece at the New School’s Public Seminar magazine on migration and climate change. A further development of the idea that climate migration is a form of primitive accumulation. Read online here, download here. Thirty years ago there were fifteen border walls around the world. Now there are seventy walls and…
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“Centrifugal Force and the Mouth of a Shark: Toward a Movement-Oriented Poetics,” by Kevin Potter
Centrifugal Force and the Mouth of a Shark: Toward a Movement-Oriented Poetics Kevin Potter Ariel: A Review of International English Literature Johns Hopkins University Press Volume 50, Number 4, October 2019 pp. 51-78 10.1353/ari.2019.0033 Abstract “No one leaves home unless / Home is the mouth of a shark” read the opening lines of Warsan Shire’s…
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ArtsLink Assembly 2019: Global Warning – Artists and the Anthropocene
I will be speaking at ArtsLink, along with others, at CUNY Nov. 13th on migration, art, and the Anthropocene.
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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…
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Moving Borders
This book brings together insights from border scholars and philosophers to ask how we are to define and understand concepts of borders today. Borders have a defining role in contemporary societies. Take, for example, the 2016 US election and the UK Brexit referendum, and subsequent debate, where the rhetoric and symbolism of border controls proved…
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Migrant Climate in the Kinocene
Andrew Baldwin, Christiane Fröhlich & Delf Rothe have just edited a wonderful special issue of Mobilities on “Anthropocene Mobilities” Here. You can read my contribution here [free] or at MOBILITIES 2019, VOL. 14, NO. 3, 375–380. In this intervention, I put forward five short theses on the topic of ‘Anthropocene mobilities.’ My aim is not to unpack every concept…
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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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Guilty Before Trial: The Image of the Criminal Migrant
I have just published a blog post at Border Criminologies, Oxford Law on images of migration. More people and more images are in circulation today than ever before in history. The digital image and the centrality of the migrant thus mark a new period in political aesthetics. Since 2014, in particular, people have been sharing…
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The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen After 9/11, Matthew Longo (2017)
Borders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on maps, rather than as political institutions in their own right. This book takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls and fences…
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Kinopolitics: Borders in Motion
We live in an age of movement. More than at any other time in history, people and things move longer distances, more frequently, and faster than ever before. We live in an age of world historical global migration, increas- ingly rapid climatic changes, of high-speed digital images, of accelerating universes and accelerated particles. All that…
The Philosophy of Movement 