Tag: nature
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Interview with Vicki Kirby
Interview with Vicki Kirby Daniel McLoughlin First Published September 7, 2019 Theory, Culture & Society https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276419868288 In this interview, Vicki Kirby discusses her research into the relationship between nature and culture, focusing in particular on her recent edited collection, What If Culture Was Nature All Along? The volume appears in the ‘New Materialisms’ series, and…
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The Super Zoom Down to Quantum Gravity (Watch)
CG animation of amazing zoom to macro view to the “quantum world”, shown on an approximate scale of the reality of physics. (Thanks to Chris Gamble for this one)
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Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion (Reviewed)
Hiram Crespo has written a nice series of blog posts reviewing Lucretius I at societyofepicurus.com. They were written last year (2018) and I am happy to have found them. He highlights some nice connections to Epicurus. You can read the review posts here.
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Against Nature, Lorraine Daston (2019)
A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders. Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior? From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America, up to the latest controversies over gay…
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Entangled Worlds (2017)
Historically speaking, theology can be said to operate “materiaphobically.” Protestant Christianity in particular has bestowed upon theology a privilege of the soul over the body and belief over practice, in line with the distinction between a disembodied God and the inanimate world “He” created. Like all other human, social, and natural sciences, religious studies imported…
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Two Recent Articles on New Materialism
The Head, the Hand, and Matter: New Materialism and the Politics of Knowledge P Rekret – Theory, Culture & Society, 2018 This article seeks to examine the political connotations of a recent ‘material turn’ in social and political theory and its implications for theorizations of political agency. ‘New materialist’ theories are premised upon transcending the…
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Political Geology: Active Stratigraphies and the Making of Life (Palgrave 2018), ed. Adam Bobbette and Amy Donovan
“This book explores the emerging field of political geology, an area of study dedicated to understanding the cross-sections between geology and politics. It considers how geological forces such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and unstable ground are political forces and how political forces have an impact on the earth. Together the authors seek to understand how the…
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The Return to Lucretius III
We are witnessing a return to Lucretius. What felt like early shoots in 2014 are today now starting to bear fruit in numerous recent books breaking with the received tradition. My work on Lucretius is now part of a handful of new works offering contemporary interpretations of Lucretius. The authors of this return offer different…
The Philosophy of Movement 