Tag: Philosophy of Movement
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What is the Philosophy of Movement? Part II: The Mobilities Turn
What is the “Mobilities Turn” and what is its Relationship to the Philosophy of Movement? In 2006, Mimi Sheller and John Urry announced the emergence of a “mobilities paradigm” or “mobility turn” in the social sciences.[i]Their edited journal issue showed quite dramatically what many scholars studying movement across several different disciplines had already felt was…
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What is the Philosophy of Movement? Part I
The Philosophy of Motion The philosophy of motion is the analysis of phenomena across social, aesthetic, scientific, and ontological domains from the perspective of motion. As such, the ontology of motion is only one part of the philosophy of motion. Most important, and quite simply, the philosophy of motion is defined by the methodological primacy…
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La Ontología del Movimiento
“The Ontology of Movement” originally published in Qui Parle Vol. 27, No. 1, June 2018 has now been translated into Spanish by Julián Martín Berrío (@julianberriog) here. “Vivimos en una era de movimiento. Más que en cualquier otro momento de la historia, las personas y las cosas se desplazan distancias más largas, con mayor frecuencia y más rápido…
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Being and Motion (2018)
My next book, Being and Motion is now available for pre-order here and here. Oxford says November, Amazon says December. “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.…
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Six Theses on the Kinetic Transcendental
One. The transcendental is not a condition of possibility. There is no such thing as a condition of something that is merely possible if there are not already actual things that define the immanent relations of the field to begin with. Transcendental re- lations are therefore extrinsic and not intrinsic. Before there are folds distributed…
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