Tag: philosophy
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What is Generative Art?
Art by Gwendal Tsang We live in the age of the digital image not only because of its powerful hybridity and power to order material reality but also because of its powerful pedesis, interactivity, and power to disorder reality—to create new kinesthetic processes. The beauty of contemporary generative art lies not in its “random” number…
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Climate change is a weapon of primitive accumulation
Climate change is a weapon of primitive accumulation Climate change has disproportionately negative effects on poorer countries and people of color, and disproportionally positive effects on receiving countries that benefit from hyper-exploitable and precious labor – what I call a ‘reserve climate labor army.’ This asymmetry is the result of a long history of capitalist…
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The Nature of Digital Image: A Conversation with Thomas Nail (transcript)
B.A. Gonczarek I’m here with Thomas Nail, the Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver and author of recently published book Theory of the Image, welcome Thomas. I must admit I was really looking forward to our discussion. When preparing to our conversation I did my research online and I was taken by…
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The Nature of Digital Image: A Conversation with Thomas Nail
The nature of digital image A conversation between Thomas Nail, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver and the author of the recently published book “Theory of the Image,” and B.A. Gonczarek, your host. A philosopher’s perspective on the nature of digital images, their material roots, and various consequences which escape…
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New Issue of Theory & Event, Volume 22, Number 4, October 2019
The latest issue of Theory & and Event looks great! Congrats to Kieran on the Symposium on “Myth and Politics in Furio Jesi”. Looks like some great contributions in there. Introduction Cristina Beltrán, Kennan Ferguson pp. 789-791 View | Download | Save Articles More Than a Hashtag: Excitement, Anguish and the Semblant of #MeToo Rosemary…
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“Centrifugal Force and the Mouth of a Shark: Toward a Movement-Oriented Poetics,” by Kevin Potter
Centrifugal Force and the Mouth of a Shark: Toward a Movement-Oriented Poetics Kevin Potter Ariel: A Review of International English Literature Johns Hopkins University Press Volume 50, Number 4, October 2019 pp. 51-78 10.1353/ari.2019.0033 Abstract “No one leaves home unless / Home is the mouth of a shark” read the opening lines of Warsan Shire’s…
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A Philosophy of the Insect, Jean-Marc Drouin (2019)
A Philosophy of the Insect Jean-Marc Drouin. Translated by Anne Trager. Columbia University Press The world of insects is at once beneath our feet and unfathomably alien. Small and innumerable, insects surround and disrupt us even as we scarcely pay them any mind. Insects confront us with the limits of what is imaginable, while…
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In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West, Wendy Brown
Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West, Columbia University Press, 2019 Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. Is this phenomenon the end of neoliberalism or its monstrous offspring? In the Ruins of Neoliberalism casts…
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CFP: The Fourth Meeting of the Critical Genealogies Workshop
CFP: The Fourth Meeting of the Critical Genealogies Workshop Submission deadline: April 15, 2020 Conference date(s): October 23, 2020 – October 24, 2020 Conference Venue: University of Richmond Richmond, United States Topic areas Continental Philosophy European Philosophy Social and Political Philosophy Details Call for Papers The Fourth Meeting of the Critical Genealogies Workshop University of…
The Philosophy of Movement 