Tag: Philosophy of Movement
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Theory of the Image is back in stock
Theory of the Image sold out in the first few days. Back orders are now shipping and the second printing is now available! Available from Amazon and OUP (30% off code: AAFLYG6) Read the introduction here. Read some selections on Cinema below. A Kinetic Theory of Cinema On the one hand, film is nothing other than a series of static…
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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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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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Returning to Lucretius
Why Return to Lucretius? I think a new Lucretius is coming into view today. Every period in Western history since Lucretius has returned to him like bees returning to their flower fields in search of nourishment. Each time, though, our return is different—like the expanding arc of a spiral. We bring new questions, find…
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“Returning to Lucretius,” talk at Saint John’s College, Santa Fe, Friday, April 5th, 7:30pm
I am giving a talk at Saint John’s College on Lucretius, Friday, April 5th, 7:30pm. It will be recorded. “A new Lucretius is coming into view today. Every great historical epoch returns to him like bees returning to their flower fields in search of nourishment. Each time, though, our return is different—like the expanding arc of…
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Three Theses on Neoliberal Migration and Social Reproduction
Issue 27 of Polygraph is on “Neoliberalism and Social Reproduction” edited by Jaime Acosta Gonzalez, Jess Issacharoff, & Jacob Soule. Read the whole issue free online here Below is my contribution: Three Theses on Neoliberal Migration and Social Reproduction Today there are more than 1 billion regional and international migrants, and the number continues to rise:…
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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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Being and Motion, 2018 (Free Download)
Download a preview of Being and Motion here. [30% off Code at OUP: AAFLYG6]
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La Naturaleza Continua o Discreta?
A Spanish translation of “Is Nature Continuous or Discrete?: How the Atomist Error was Born,” originally published here at Aeon has just been translated into Spanish by Julian Martin Berrio and published with http://www.elmalpensante.com You can also download it here
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Poetry in Motion: On A.R. Ammons’ “Corsons Inlet”
The stanza formation ripples, rises, and falls like waves. The poem both speaks about and performs the movement of the sea, dunes, reeds, birds, and fish at the same time. Form yields to the material process of undulation and continuous deformation. Life and death become the Janus faces of entropy. In nature there are…