Tag: migration
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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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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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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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Three Theses on Neoliberal Migration and Social Reproduction
Issue 27 of Polygraph is on “Neoliberalism and Social Reproduction” edited by Jaime Acosta Gonzalez, Jess Issacharoff, & Jacob Soule. Read the whole issue free online here Below is my contribution: Three Theses on Neoliberal Migration and Social Reproduction Today there are more than 1 billion regional and international migrants, and the number continues to rise:…
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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…
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Asylum Report from the US-Mexico border (Dec, 2018)
This report looks like essential reading for understanding what is going on at the US-Mexico border right now. Thanks to @_gesanchez for sharing this! The report is based on fieldwork conducted during this past November on 8 regions along the US Mexico border. It involves extensive observations at ports of entry, extensive caselaw analysis and…
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Sanctuary, Solidarity, Status!, Thomas Nail (2018)
I just got my copy of Open Borders, edited by Reece Jones. This is a landmark collection of work on open borders and is filled with excellent contributions. I will definitely be teaching from this! You can read my chapter from the book here. Abstract The aim of this chapter is to describe the current possible…
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Migrant Cosmopolitanism (A Talk Given at Lund University, Sweden)
Here is the talk I gave today at Lund University, Sweden. Introduction The twenty-first century will be the century of the migrant. At the turn of the twenty-first century, there were more migrants than ever before in recorded history. Today there are over 1 billion migrants. Migration has risen by nearly 50 percent since…
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From What Shore Does Socialism Arrive?
This is the best thing I have read on the Caravan so far. Viewpoint Magazine November 7, 2018 Ultimately, no doubt, the left in the United States will have to confront the fact that there is never likely to be an ‘American revolution’ as classically imagined by DeLeon, Debs or Cannon. If socialism is to…
The Philosophy of Movement 