Tag: science
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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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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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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…
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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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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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“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.
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La Naturaleza Continua o Discreta?
A Spanish translation of “Is Nature Continuous or Discrete?: How the Atomist Error was Born,” originally published here at Aeon has just been translated into Spanish by Julian Martin Berrio and published with http://www.elmalpensante.com You can also download it here
The Philosophy of Movement 