Tag: poetry
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Theory of the Image is now available on audiobook
We live in an age of the mobile image. The world today is absolutely saturated with images of all kinds circulating around the world at an incredible rate. The movement of the image has never been more extraordinary than it is today. This recent kinetic revolution of the image has enormous consequences not only for…
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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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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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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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“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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Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion (Reviewed)
Hiram Crespo has written a nice series of blog posts reviewing Lucretius I at societyofepicurus.com. They were written last year (2018) and I am happy to have found them. He highlights some nice connections to Epicurus. You can read the review posts here.
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Theory of the Image (OUP, 2019) OUT NOW!
The book is now available from Amazon and shortly with OUP (30% off code: AAFLYG6) Read the introduction here. Read the Conclusion below. The Mobile Image We live in the age of the mobile image. Today, more than ever before, we are surrounded by hybrid images of all kinds that circulate freely and mix with contemporary images. This incredible…
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Theory of the Image (Oxford University Press, 2019)
We live in an age of the mobile image. The world today is absolutely saturated with images of all kinds circulating around the world at an incredible rate. The movement of the image has never been more extraordinary than it is today. This recent kinetic revolution of the image has enormous consequences not only for…
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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 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…
The Philosophy of Movement 