Tag: new materialism
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Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism (Audiobook)
My book on Marx is now available for download at Audible. Marx in Motion A New Materialist Marxism By: Thomas Nail Narrated by: Paul Boehmer Length: 12 hrs Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 10-27-20 Language: English Publisher: Tantor Audio Publisher’s Summary Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since…
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Black Hole Materialism
Chris Gamble and I have just published our article on black hole materialism at Rhizomes. You can also download the article here. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge: Issue 36 (2020) Black Hole Materialism Christopher Neil Gamble University of Washington Thomas Nail University of Denver Abstract: The Euro-Western tradition has long considered matter to be essentially…
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Why read Lucretius when you can read Epicurus and Homer? Here’s why.
Here is a short introduction to my Lucretius book project I wrote for Book Launch Magazine… Every great historical epoch returns to Lucretius like bees returning to their flower fields in search of nourishment. I first returned to Lucretius in 2014, when I taught Book II of De Rerum Natura for a class on…
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Get a free ebook of Lucretius I when you buy Lucretius II
Find out where it all started: we’re offering a free ebook of Lucretius I when you buy a copy of Lucretius II. Just add a copy of Lucretius II (paperback, hardback or ebook) and a Lucretius Iebook to your basket, and enter the code Lucretius2 when you check out. Visit the webpage for Lucretius I…
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Gendered Ecologies New Materialist Interpretations of Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century (Clemson University Press, 2020) Edited by Dewey W. Hall and Jillmarie Murphy
This looks like a great collection. Unfortunately, its only in $120 hardback right now. Gendered Ecologies: New Materialist Interpretations of Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century considers the value of interrelationships that exist among human, nonhuman species, and inanimate objects as part of the environment, and features observations by women writers as recorded in…
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Lucretius’ Material Ecology
MATERIAL ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFECT Lucretius’ theory of simulacra means that there are no discrete subjects and objects—only affective ecologies. The whole environment is not just something to be passively “considered” but something that plays an active role in constituting and entire atmosphere or situation. To illustrate this, Lucretius describes the beautiful way in which…
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The Nature of Digital Image: A Conversation with Thomas Nail
The nature of digital image A conversation between Thomas Nail, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver and the author of the recently published book “Theory of the Image,” and B.A. Gonczarek, your host. A philosopher’s perspective on the nature of digital images, their material roots, and various consequences which escape…
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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…
The Philosophy of Movement 