Tag: migration
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The Politics of Movement: An Interview with Thomas Nail
Here is an interview I did on the politics of movement with Nico Buitendag for his podcast, Undisciplined. The last three interviews were with Andrew Culp, Sandro Mezzadra, and Simon Springer. Check them all out here.
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“Understanding the Philosophy of Movement” An Interview with Thomas Nail
Kinetic Revolution: Understanding the Transversal Reality of the “Philosophy of Movement” Dario Giovanni Ali interviews Thomas Nail, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver on his theory of “kinopolitics.” Translated into Italian and published in Visitors, K-Pocket Guide (Italy, Kabul Press, 2020), 52-61. Download here in English and Italian. Dario: In…
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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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Sigurds Vīdzirkste: A Little-Known Contributor to Cybernetics in New York
While I was giving a talk in New York the other week I had the chance to see a preview of this incredible exhibit on Latvian migrant exile artists working in New York in the 1960s (thanks to Andra Silapetere). I was really struck by the mysterious work of one artists in particular: Sigurds Vīdzirkste.…
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Climate change is a weapon of primitive accumulation
Climate change is a weapon of primitive accumulation Climate change has disproportionately negative effects on poorer countries and people of color, and disproportionally positive effects on receiving countries that benefit from hyper-exploitable and precious labor – what I call a ‘reserve climate labor army.’ This asymmetry is the result of a long history of capitalist…
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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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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…
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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…
The Philosophy of Movement 