Vor dreißig Jahren gab es fünfzehn Grenzmauern auf der Welt. Heute gibt es siebzig Mauern und über eine Milliarde nationale und internationale Migranten. Allein die Zahl der internationalen Migranten könnte sich in den nächsten vierzig Jahren aufgrund der globalen Erwärmung …
We talk about the movement of time but does time move, or does movement occur in time? This is a fundamental question in the philosophy of time that philosophers and physicists are still trying to answer. Interestingly, one of the …
For me, a border is a process that modulates the circulation of things. It continually distributes and redistributes flows of movement that pass through or around it. read here Foto: Stefan Paulus
… My version of materialism is “indeterminate materialism,” meaning that matter is indeterminate, just as the quote you read, and something indeterminate does not have an essence, so movement preceeds the essence for sure. Harman would say that I am …
Most people are accustomed to treating the earth as a relatively stable place that they live on and move on. As a result, many dominant human groups have thought of themselves as actors on the stage of the Earth. Today, …
This essay shows how a new materialist theory of the Earth side-steps the distinction between the global and the planetary that structuresChakrabarty’s historiography. It advocates for a non-binary-generating ap-proach to our planetary situation grounded in the philosophy of motion. read …
The term „COVID capitalism“ designates the ways capitalism and the novel coronavirus alter and amplify one another. In this paper, I look at four major features that characterize this relationship so far. (1) Capitalist extraction and urbanization increase exposure to new …
My point here is that at some level, not necessarily consciously, pareidolia reminds us of our interconnection with the world whose fractal patterns and dynamics we use in our bodies and minds to experience that same world. Pareidolia often occasions …
The word ‘migrant’ makes it look as if the essence of the person we are talking about were to leave, to travel under terrible conditions, and to wind up somewhere. But no! That person’s historical essence, itself the result of …
Migration and the New Communist Politics (Book Review of Alain Badiou, Migrants and Militants, 2020)
Lucretius ’universe is not a harmonious place of equilibrium where destruction always balances creation. Ontology is profoundly historical and asymmetrical because matter flows. Flow necessarily entails global dissipation and dissolution from higher energy to lower energy. The swerve is indeterminate, not …
In other words, “identity” is not a static position or unchanging form but a cycle or habit of indeterminately swerving matter. read here Foto: Sylvia John
Motion is not just a new way to think about the world. It is a synthetic description of life in the 21st century based on our shared experience of increasing mobility, displacement, and instability. These movements are changing every structure on …