Tag: philosophy
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Favorite Movies, 2018 (Steven Shaviro)
Steven Shaviro has posted his top films for the year. Looks like a missed a few! These are my favorite movies of 2018. I won’t call this a best films list, since there are so many movies I still haven’t seen (for instance, Mandy, Let the Sunshine In, A Star is Born, Vox Lux, If…
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Militant Acts The Role of Investigations in Radical Political Struggles, Marcelo Hoffman (Jan 2019)
This looks great! Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward. Militant Acts presents a broad history of the concept and practice of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century to the present. Radicals launched investigations into the conditions and struggles of the oppressed…
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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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The Poetry of Georges Bataille, George Bataille, translated by Stuart Kendall (2018)
Just got my copy in the mail yesterday. Presents a new window into the literary, philosophical, and theological concerns of this enigmatic thinker and writer. Despite its relative rarity, and the condensed brevity of the poems themselves, poetry occupies a striking place in the literary and philosophical oeuvre of Georges Bataille. For Bataille, poetry had…
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The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism, Elizabeth Grosz (2018) Paperback
Philosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism―either a radical separation of mind and body or the reduction of mind to body. But from its origins in the writings of the Stoics, the first thoroughgoing materialists, another view has acknowledged that no forms of materialism can be completely self-inclusive―space,…
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A Companion To Marx’s Capital: The Complete Edition, David Harvey (2018)
The radical geographer guides us through the classic text of political economy In recent years, we have witnessed a surge of interest in Marx’s work in an effort to understand the origins of our current political and economic crisis. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the…
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I Know There Are So Many of You, Alain Badiou (2018)
The history of humanity has only just begun. The Neolithic Revolution may have endowed us with unparalleled means of communication, subsistence, and knowledge acquisition. However, it is clear in today’s world that inequality, power hierarchies, and violence persist on a greater scale than ever before. In these two lectures, delivered to the large number of…
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Entangled Worlds (2017)
Historically speaking, theology can be said to operate “materiaphobically.” Protestant Christianity in particular has bestowed upon theology a privilege of the soul over the body and belief over practice, in line with the distinction between a disembodied God and the inanimate world “He” created. Like all other human, social, and natural sciences, religious studies imported…
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What Is Real? | Giorgio Agamben
Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most talented physicist of his generation vanished without leaving a trace? It has long been speculated that Majorana decided to abandon physics, disappearing because he had…
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Two Recent Articles on New Materialism
The Head, the Hand, and Matter: New Materialism and the Politics of Knowledge P Rekret – Theory, Culture & Society, 2018 This article seeks to examine the political connotations of a recent ‘material turn’ in social and political theory and its implications for theorizations of political agency. ‘New materialist’ theories are premised upon transcending the…
The Philosophy of Movement 