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 …
We live in an age of geological movement. We are accustomed to treating the earth as a stable or static place that we live and move on but today this“stable” ground is becoming increasingly unstable. More people and things are …
Instead, Lucretius offers a profoundly indeterminate ending to the poem and the end of the world in which no static gods live in between worlds. For Lucretius, the gods are just ideas in our minds. No gods, ideas, or arts …
We live in an age of objects. Today there are more objects and more kinds of objects than ever before in human history, and they continue to multi-ply at a mind-boggling rate. The sciences have succeeded in transforming almost every …
Process Ontology and Becoming The historical precursors of the philosophy of motion have also had a major influence on a number of contemporary process ontologies, or ontologies of becoming. Process ontology, like the ontology of movement, emphasizes flux and becoming …
What is the difference between process philosophy and the philosophy of movement?
This has led to an inverted understanding of the earth and our relationship to it. We have posited ourselves and the earth as profound reversals of the general movement of the universe, which flows, cycles, and dissipates entropically. 1 The …
