Tag: materialism
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Black Hole Materialism
Chris Gamble and I have just published our article on black hole materialism at Rhizomes. You can also download the article here. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge: Issue 36 (2020) Black Hole Materialism Christopher Neil Gamble University of Washington Thomas Nail University of Denver Abstract: The Euro-Western tradition has long considered matter to be essentially…
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Get a free ebook of Lucretius I when you buy Lucretius II
Find out where it all started: we’re offering a free ebook of Lucretius I when you buy a copy of Lucretius II. Just add a copy of Lucretius II (paperback, hardback or ebook) and a Lucretius Iebook to your basket, and enter the code Lucretius2 when you check out. Visit the webpage for Lucretius I…
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Lucretius’ Material Ecology
MATERIAL ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFECT Lucretius’ theory of simulacra means that there are no discrete subjects and objects—only affective ecologies. The whole environment is not just something to be passively “considered” but something that plays an active role in constituting and entire atmosphere or situation. To illustrate this, Lucretius describes the beautiful way in which…
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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…
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The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture, Emanuele Coccia (2018)
This is a wonderful book. I highly recommend it for those interested in materialism, nature, plants, posthuman ecology. We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere decoration on the tree of life. And yet plants give life to the Earth: they produce…
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Posthuman Ecologies: Complexity and Process after Deleuze, Edited by Rosi Braidotti and Simone Bignall (2018)
The devolved and dispersed character of human agency and moral responsibility in the contemporary condition appears linked with the deepening global trauma of ‘inhumanism’ as a paradox of the Anthropocene. Reclaiming human agency and accountability appears crucial for collective resistance to the unprecedented state of environmental and social collapse resulting from the inhumanity of contemporary…
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The Poetry of Georges Bataille, George Bataille, translated by Stuart Kendall (2018)
Just got my copy in the mail yesterday. Presents a new window into the literary, philosophical, and theological concerns of this enigmatic thinker and writer. Despite its relative rarity, and the condensed brevity of the poems themselves, poetry occupies a striking place in the literary and philosophical oeuvre of Georges Bataille. For Bataille, poetry had…
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The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism, Elizabeth Grosz (2018) Paperback
Philosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism―either a radical separation of mind and body or the reduction of mind to body. But from its origins in the writings of the Stoics, the first thoroughgoing materialists, another view has acknowledged that no forms of materialism can be completely self-inclusive―space,…
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Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities (2018)
Nice collection forthcoming in Dec 2018. Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities, Erik Swyngedouw & Henrik Ernstson, Eds., Routledge, 2018 This looks like a great paper on the importance of ecological value theory. Excerpt from “Value, Nature & The Vortex Of Accumulation,” Jason Moore and Richard Walker Why bother with value theory?…
The Philosophy of Movement 