Tag: science studies
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Black Hole Materialism
Chris Gamble and I have just published our article on black hole materialism at Rhizomes. You can also download the article here. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge: Issue 36 (2020) Black Hole Materialism Christopher Neil Gamble University of Washington Thomas Nail University of Denver Abstract: The Euro-Western tradition has long considered matter to be essentially…
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The Nature of Digital Image: A Conversation with Thomas Nail (transcript)
B.A. Gonczarek I’m here with Thomas Nail, the Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver and author of recently published book Theory of the Image, welcome Thomas. I must admit I was really looking forward to our discussion. When preparing to our conversation I did my research online and I was taken by…
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Black Hole Sun: On the Materialist Sublime
The first image of black hole has just been released today. This is a profound and important aesthetic moment from a new materialist perspective. The image is not beautiful because we enjoy a free play of our imagination as we try to figure out what we are looking at and how it fits with our…
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“Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science” NYT, Oct 25th 2018
He spent decades deconstructing the ways that scientists claim their authority. Can his ideas help them regain that authority today? Read the New York Times article here.
The Philosophy of Movement 