Tag: new materialism
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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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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 (Oxford University Press, 2019)
We live in an age of the mobile image. The world today is absolutely saturated with images of all kinds circulating around the world at an incredible rate. The movement of the image has never been more extraordinary than it is today. This recent kinetic revolution of the image has enormous consequences not only for…
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Black Hole Sun: On the Materialist Sublime
The first image of black hole has just been released today. This is a profound and important aesthetic moment from a new materialist perspective. The image is not beautiful because we enjoy a free play of our imagination as we try to figure out what we are looking at and how it fits with our…
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The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture, Emanuele Coccia (2018)
This is a wonderful book. I highly recommend it for those interested in materialism, nature, plants, posthuman ecology. We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere decoration on the tree of life. And yet plants give life to the Earth: they produce…
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Posthuman Ecologies: Complexity and Process after Deleuze, Edited by Rosi Braidotti and Simone Bignall (2018)
The devolved and dispersed character of human agency and moral responsibility in the contemporary condition appears linked with the deepening global trauma of ‘inhumanism’ as a paradox of the Anthropocene. Reclaiming human agency and accountability appears crucial for collective resistance to the unprecedented state of environmental and social collapse resulting from the inhumanity of contemporary…
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The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism, Elizabeth Grosz (2018) Paperback
Philosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism―either a radical separation of mind and body or the reduction of mind to body. But from its origins in the writings of the Stoics, the first thoroughgoing materialists, another view has acknowledged that no forms of materialism can be completely self-inclusive―space,…
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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…
The Philosophy of Movement 