Tag: philosophy
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Mobile Borders (Confini Mobili)
For those of you who read Italian, Tommaso Morawski and Ernesto C. Sferrazza Papa have just published a lovely edited special issue on “Philosophy and Cartography” in Pólemos: Materiali di filosofia e critica sociale. FILOSOFIA E CARTOGRAFIA: PROSPETTIVE STORICHE, TEORICHE, ESTETICHE E POLITICHE Ernesto kindly translated my contribution: CONFINI MOBILI Thomas Nail Introduzione Questo saggio introduce una…
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The Nomadic Proletariat: An Interview with Alain Badiou
TRANSLATED AND CONDUCTED BY THOMAS NAIL The Centrality of the Migrant Thomas Nail: The sans-papiers are perhaps the single most cited example of a contemporary political event in all of your work. You say in De quoi Sarkozy est-il le nom? that their struggle “defines what is most important in politics today.” Why do the sans-papiers…
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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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Trump, Alain Badiou (2019)
The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States sent shockwaves across the globe. How was such an outcome even possible? In two lectures given at American universities in the immediate aftermath of the election, the leading French philosopher Alain Badiou helps us to make sense of this extraordinary occurrence. He argues that…
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Deleuze and Anarchism (2019) edited by Chantelle Gray Van Heerden, Aragorn Eloff
I just got my advance copy of Deleuze and Anarchism. Congratulations to the editors on this excellent book! Explores Deleuze and Guattari’s own diverse conceptions of anarchism and expands it in the spirit of their philosophy This collection of 13 essays addresses and explores Deleuze and Guattari’s relationship to the notion of anarchism: in the…
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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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The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture, Emanuele Coccia (2018)
This is a wonderful book. I highly recommend it for those interested in materialism, nature, plants, posthuman ecology. We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere decoration on the tree of life. And yet plants give life to the Earth: they produce…
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Kinopolitics: Borders in Motion
We live in an age of movement. More than at any other time in history, people and things move longer distances, more frequently, and faster than ever before. We live in an age of world historical global migration, increas- ingly rapid climatic changes, of high-speed digital images, of accelerating universes and accelerated particles. All that…
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Posthuman Ecologies: Complexity and Process after Deleuze, Edited by Rosi Braidotti and Simone Bignall (2018)
The devolved and dispersed character of human agency and moral responsibility in the contemporary condition appears linked with the deepening global trauma of ‘inhumanism’ as a paradox of the Anthropocene. Reclaiming human agency and accountability appears crucial for collective resistance to the unprecedented state of environmental and social collapse resulting from the inhumanity of contemporary…
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Favorite Writing Music of 2018
These were my favorite albums to write to that came out in 2018. When I write I listen to only instrumental music and find that it helps me focus. I hope they help you too. Happy New New Year! 1) Shida Shahabi, Homes 2) Zoë Keating, Snowmelt 3) Nils Frahm, All Melody 4) Ólafur…
The Philosophy of Movement 