Tag: philosophy
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Understanding the Coronavirus Pandemic with Foucault? by Philipp Sarasin
Here is a section from one of the best theoretical analyses I have read on the coronavirus so far. Read the full article here. 4. SOME CONCLUSIONS WITH REGARD TO CORONA ↑ It is clear that Foucault did not speak of real pandemics but that he used infectious diseases as models of thought in order…
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3 pandemic predictions from Lucretius How being afraid of death is making some people less ethical
3 pandemic predictions from Lucretius How being afraid of death is making some people less ethical The global spread of the coronavirus has forced us to confront our own mortality, and fears about illness and death weigh heavily on the minds of many. But there’s a risk that fear for our own life will outweigh…
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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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The Deleuze Seminars, Website Launch
**I have been on the editorial team for years for this project and today we are launching our NEH funded website. It is by far the most comprehensive collection of Deleuze’s seminars on the internet. The Deleuze Seminars We are delighted to announce the virtual launch of a new archive site, The Deleuze Seminars (deleuze.cla.purdue.edu), devoted…
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Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion (EUP, 2020) is out now!
Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion is now available for 30% off. Edinburgh University Press: UK discount coupon code: NEW30 Oxford University Press: US discount coupon code: ADISTA5 ‘With Lucretius II, Thomas Nail continues his project of re-reading Lucretius’ De rerum natura in a startlingly new fashion – as a foundational text in the philosophy…
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Listen to Being and Motion now on Audible
Listen here. Read here. Buy here. More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility; yet, we lack a unifying theory which takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy. The history of philosophy has systematically explained movement as derived from something else that does not…
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Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion (Pre-order 30% off) and Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion $6.50
Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion is now available for pre-order and 30% off during February and March. Edinburgh University Press: discount coupon code: NEW30 Oxford University Press: discount coupon code: ADISTA5 Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion digital book (epub/pdf) is also now available for $6.50 at Edinburgh here for the month of February.…
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: THE UNDERCOMMONS AND DESTITUENT POWER
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: THE UNDERCOMMONS AND DESTITUENT POWER March 26-28th, 2020, Indiana University in Bloomington. Organizers: Micol Seigel, Bella Bravo, Kieran Aarons, Mia Beach, Ross Gay, Rosie Stockton, J. Cameron Karter Confirmed Speakers: Fred Moten, Frederic Neyrat, Laura Harris, Mikkel Bolt-Rasmussen, Adam Kotsko, Dylan Rodriquez, Mauvaise Troupe Collective, Jaime Alves, Daniel Nemser, Jackie Wang Deadline for…
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“Understanding the Philosophy of Movement” An Interview with Thomas Nail
Kinetic Revolution: Understanding the Transversal Reality of the “Philosophy of Movement” Dario Giovanni Ali interviews Thomas Nail, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver on his theory of “kinopolitics.” Translated into Italian and published in Visitors, K-Pocket Guide (Italy, Kabul Press, 2020), 52-61. Download here in English and Italian. Dario: In…
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The Climate-Migration-Industrial Complex
I just published a short piece at the New School’s Public Seminar magazine on migration and climate change. A further development of the idea that climate migration is a form of primitive accumulation. Read online here, download here. Thirty years ago there were fifteen border walls around the world. Now there are seventy walls and…
The Philosophy of Movement 