Tag: mobility
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What is the Philosophy of Movement? IV
This is a short excerpt on the philosophy of movement from a recent interview I did with Nico Buitendag for Undisciplined Podcast. Nico Buitendag: When we first begin to look at the world through motion, what are some of the first things that were previously obscured that suddenly—at least then for you when you started…
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Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion (EUP, 2020) is out now!
Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion is now available for 30% off. Edinburgh University Press: UK discount coupon code: NEW30 Oxford University Press: US discount coupon code: ADISTA5 ‘With Lucretius II, Thomas Nail continues his project of re-reading Lucretius’ De rerum natura in a startlingly new fashion – as a foundational text in the philosophy…
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Listen to Being and Motion now on Audible
Listen here. Read here. Buy here. More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility; yet, we lack a unifying theory which takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy. The history of philosophy has systematically explained movement as derived from something else that does not…
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Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion (Pre-order 30% off) and Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion $6.50
Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion is now available for pre-order and 30% off during February and March. Edinburgh University Press: discount coupon code: NEW30 Oxford University Press: discount coupon code: ADISTA5 Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion digital book (epub/pdf) is also now available for $6.50 at Edinburgh here for the month of February.…
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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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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…
The Philosophy of Movement 