Tag: politics
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New issue of Radical Philosophy published
The new Radical Philosophy issue is now online, with a dossier in memoriam of Sabah Mahmood, and contributions by Angela Davis, Elsa Dorlin, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and many others. Open access here – https://www.radicalphilosophy.com
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Climate, Capitalism, Control (Video by Ian Alan Paul)
Watch it here. The work aims to diagram the conjunctive power of planetary-scale computation, commodification, and climate change, and begins with the following voice-over: “Dispersed across the surface of Earth, computer clusters electronically hum in vast air-conditioned rooms. One models sea level rises, precipitation rates, temperature increases, and property values in coastal metropolises over the…
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Expansion / Expulsion (Review of The Figure of the Migrant)
I just came across a review of The Figure of the Migrant I had not seen before in New Formations, Vol. 89/90: Death and the Contemporary (2016): pp. 256-259. [DOI: 10.398/NEWF:89/90.REV06.2016] Expansion / Expulsion Kevin M. Potter Thomas Nail, The Figure of the Migrant. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2015, 295pp As the twenty-first-century political and social…
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(CFP) Association for Borderlands Studies, Annual Conference, 2020, April 1-4, Portland Oregon
2020 Annual Conference April 1-4, 2020 Portland, Oregon, USA Marriott Downtown Waterfront 1401 SW Naito Pkwy In contrast to the complexity and differentiation suggested by much recent academic literature, borders continue to be conceived of and represented by mainstream politics and the media in an overly simplistic way. Much recent political and public debate…
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Moving Borders
This book brings together insights from border scholars and philosophers to ask how we are to define and understand concepts of borders today. Borders have a defining role in contemporary societies. Take, for example, the 2016 US election and the UK Brexit referendum, and subsequent debate, where the rhetoric and symbolism of border controls proved…
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The Migrant Image
How can we think of art history as a discipline that moves process-based, performative, and cultural migratory movement to the center of its theoretical and methodical analyses? With contributions from internationally renowned experts, this manual, for the first time, provides answers as to what consequences the interaction of migration and globalization has on research…
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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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Guilty Before Trial: The Image of the Criminal Migrant
I have just published a blog post at Border Criminologies, Oxford Law on images of migration. More people and more images are in circulation today than ever before in history. The digital image and the centrality of the migrant thus mark a new period in political aesthetics. Since 2014, in particular, people have been sharing…
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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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The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen After 9/11, Matthew Longo (2017)
Borders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on maps, rather than as political institutions in their own right. This book takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls and fences…
The Philosophy of Movement 