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 …
… Trying to monitor and control people’s circulation is similar to tracking atmo-spheric pollution and global air circulation in that both are complex systems that are incredibly unpredictable and prone to sudden feedback loops. The closer we look at things …
The current pandemic is another crisis being turned against immigrants. Five years after the terrorist attacks on Paris in November 2015 migrants are again being treated as terrorists. This time they are being treated as bioterrorists. Bioterrorism refers to the …
Theory of the Earth reconsiders the immanent history of the earth from the perspective of the increasingly unstable mobility that de fines the Anthro-pocene. It thus provides a uniquely movement-oriented or “kinetic” theory of the earth. This methodology has two …
Why Return to Lucretius? I think a new Lucretius is coming into view today. Every period in Western history since Lucretius has returned to him like bees returning to their flower fields in search of nourishment. Each time, though, our …
The first limitation is Deleuze ’ s theory of motion . If the flux of matter, like every other flux, is ontologically equal to every other flux, then we should expect to find in Deleuze ’ s pluralist ontology …
Climate change is a weapon of primitive accumulation Climate change has disproportionately negative effects on poorer countries and people of color, and disproportionally positive effects on receiving countries that benefit from hyper-exploitable and precious labor – what I call a …
What is an object? One interesting way to avoid the problem of getting the subject and object back together to secure knoweldge is by not introducing the division in the first place. What if everything was only objects? We could …
What is Object Oriented Ontology? What is Actor Network Theory? What is the Philosophy of Movement?
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
THREE THESES ON NEOLIBERAL MIGRATION AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION