Tag: ontology
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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 Object Oriented Ontology? What is Actor Network Theory? What is the Philosophy of Movement?
What is an object? One interesting way to avoid the problem of getting the subject and object back together to secure knoweldge is by not introducing the division in the first place. What if everything was only objects? We could then think of the subject as a highly composite type of object. Before proposing my…
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Migrant Climate in the Kinocene
Andrew Baldwin, Christiane Fröhlich & Delf Rothe have just edited a wonderful special issue of Mobilities on “Anthropocene Mobilities” Here. You can read my contribution here [free] or at MOBILITIES 2019, VOL. 14, NO. 3, 375–380. In this intervention, I put forward five short theses on the topic of ‘Anthropocene mobilities.’ My aim is not to unpack every concept…
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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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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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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…
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Being and Motion, 2018 (Free Download)
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The Philosophy of Movement 