Post by: Thomas Nail
Christopher Neil Gamble University of Washington
Thomas Nail University of Denver
Abstract: The Euro-Western tradition has long considered matter to be essentially non-relational, passive and mechanical. Matter, that is, is thought to consist of elementary particles that remain internally unchanged while moving inside of, or against, an equally unchanging or ...
black hole, dark materialism, mechanics, quantum theory, void
Lucretius was the first philosopher of immanence. It is he and not Democritus or Epicurus who holds this title. If we want to understand the historical emergence of the concept of immanence, we should start by distinguishing its precursors in Greek atomism from its first complete incarnation in Lucretius. This ...
Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have witnessed a rebirth of his popular appeal. In a world of rising income inequality, right-wing nationalisms, and global climate change, people are again looking to the father ...
The argument of this paper is that the migrant is also a defining
figure of neoliberal social reproduction. This argument is composed of
three interlocking theses on what I am calling the “neoliberal migrant.”
Thesis 1: The first thesis argues that the migrant is foremost a socially
constitutive figure. That ...
How we respond depends a great deal on how we frame the
problem. First, we need to change the way we understand
natural processes. Nature is in a state of constant flux
—always looking for new ways to use more energy and
dissipate it faster. If we want to survive ...
In this intervention, I put forward five short theses on the topic of ‘ Anthropocene mobilities. ’ My aim is not to unpack every concept con-tained herein but rather to provide a provocative introductory synthesis of five big ideas about Anthropocene mobility for further discussion. 1) Weare living in the ...
Capitalocene, climate justice, justice of mobility, Kinopolitics, motion, primitive accumulation
This is roughly where physics is at with what is now called quantum gravity theory in physics. In quantum gravity theory, space and time and all the laws of nature are not, as Einstein thought, a priori features of nature. They are emergent, metastable processes of indeterminate quantum fluctuations of ...
Thirty years ago there were fifteen border walls around the world. Now there are seventy walls and over one billion national and international migrants. International migrants alone may even double in the next forty years due to global warming. It is not surprising that over the past two decades, we ...
30 years ago, there were 15 border walls around the world; now there are 70 walls and over 1 billion national and international migrants. International migrants alone may even double in the next 40 years due to global warming. Our new epoch of global flux has also given rise to ...
climate change, climate industrial complex, Kinocene, Migration
This is such a shock to our geological imagination because our understanding of what the world is and how it works (our“ontologies”) have largely considered the Earth as something stable : as the static ground of being and knowing. The Kinocene should therefore be aloud wake-up call to us that ...
Thesis 1: The first thesis argues that the migrant is foremost a socially
constitutive figure. That is, we should not think of the migrant as a
derivative or socially exceptional figure who merely travels between preconstituted states. The movement and circulation of migrants has always played an important historical role ...
Border, Migration, neoliberalism, Refugees, surplus population
