Tag: philosophy
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The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, Jasbir K. Puar (2017)
I missed this one from last year, but it looks great. Description In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of “debility”—bodily injury…
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The Birth of Nomos, Thanos Zartaloudis (2018)
This book looks absolutely essential. My only resource on this important term for the last decade has been Emmanuel Laroche, Histoire de la racine nem- en grec ancien (nemō, nemesis, nomos, nomizō) (1949). Delves into the history of the ancient Greek word nomos (and related words) to reveal the interdisciplinary depth of this term beyond its…
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Recently Published Articles on New Materialism
Curiosity, Criticality and Materiality Can E. Mutlu in conversation with Mark B. Salter Technologies of International Relations pp 45-53 Abstract In this chapter Mark B. Salter, current editor of Security Dialogue, discusses with Can E. Mutlu the meaning and significance of technology for International Relations in light of his eclectic work. Salter, perhaps best-known for…
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Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity, ed Maria Voyatzaki (2018)
This is looks like a great collection, but the hardback price is $80! Maps materiality’s importance in the emergent posthuman future of architecture This book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. They all argue that matter in contemporary posthuman times has to be rethought in its rich…
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Migrant Cosmopolitanism (A Talk Given at Lund University, Sweden)
Here is the talk I gave today at Lund University, Sweden. Introduction The twenty-first century will be the century of the migrant. At the turn of the twenty-first century, there were more migrants than ever before in recorded history. Today there are over 1 billion migrants. Migration has risen by nearly 50 percent since…
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Political Geology: Active Stratigraphies and the Making of Life (Palgrave 2018), ed. Adam Bobbette and Amy Donovan
“This book explores the emerging field of political geology, an area of study dedicated to understanding the cross-sections between geology and politics. It considers how geological forces such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and unstable ground are political forces and how political forces have an impact on the earth. Together the authors seek to understand how the…
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Questioning New Materialisms (2018)
This looks like an interesting new edited issue of Theory, Culture, and Society on New Materialism. Right now only the introduction to the collection is online and the rest of the collection is soon to follow. (Behind a paywall, see the link below to SAGE). Questioning New Materialisms: An Introduction Charles Devellennes, Benoît Dillet…
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The Return to Lucretius III
We are witnessing a return to Lucretius. What felt like early shoots in 2014 are today now starting to bear fruit in numerous recent books breaking with the received tradition. My work on Lucretius is now part of a handful of new works offering contemporary interpretations of Lucretius. The authors of this return offer different…
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Being and Motion, 2018 (Free Download)
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The Philosophy of Movement 