Tag: movement
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“Thomas Nail’s Magnum Opus, Being and Motion,” By Achim Szepanski
Archim Szepanski from Non Copyriot has written a nice summary and review of my book, Being and Motion for German readers here. “Sein Magnum Opus „Being and Motion“ beginnt Thomas Nail mit dem lapidaren Satz “Wir leben im Zeitalter der Bewegung.“ Als Anhaltspunkte dienen für Nail, dass wir unter sozialen Gesichtspunkten heute riesige migrantische Bewegungen…
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What is the Philosophy of Movement? V: Art and Objects
This is a short excerpt on the philosophy of movement from a recent interview I did with Nico Buitendag for Undisciplined Podcast. Nico: I can imagine and I take my hat off to you. So I also want to move on to some of your other work but still within this broader theme. I believe…
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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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These Kinetic Sculptures Hypnotize You
These sculptures are so organic and so iterative. They are such a great example of the woven structure of singularities and wholes in nature. Watch the video interview with the artist, Anthony Howe, here.
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Being and Motion reviewed by Michael J. Bennett
Thomas Nail, Being and Motion Aug 30, 2019 Thomas Nail, Being and Motion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018; 544 pages. ISBN: 978-0190908911. Reviewed by Michael J. Bennett, University of King’s College. Thomas Nail’s ambitious philosophical project starts with the diagnosis that today we live in the “Age of Motion.” Politics, aesthetics and science have…
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Theory of the Image (OUP, 2019) OUT NOW!
The book is now available from Amazon and shortly with OUP (30% off code: AAFLYG6) Read the introduction here. Read the Conclusion below. The Mobile Image We live in the age of the mobile image. Today, more than ever before, we are surrounded by hybrid images of all kinds that circulate freely and mix with contemporary images. This incredible…
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Being and Motion, Thomas Nail (2018) Published Dec 10th
Being and Motion is officially published and available today. Buy at Oxford Buy at Amazon More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility; and yet, we lack a unifying theory which takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy. The history of philosophy…
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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…
The Philosophy of Movement 