Now the processuality of capitalist machines releases complex, differential and problematic relations that have emerged historically through the contingent encounter or the external conjunction of generally decoded flows, the capital-money flows with the labor flows. (Cf. Deleuze/Guattari 1974: 287ff.) Since […]
The concept of capital in Deleuze/Guattari
Interpretations of Lucretius’ text varied widely, but in 1841 a young German philosopher named Karl Marx wrote his doctoral thesis on Greek atomism, using Lucretius’ poem as his primary text. Marx’s interpretation of Lucretius was highly heterodox in that it
Matter and Motion: A Brief History of Kinetic Materialism
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
… 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
Interview with Thomas Nail in Mobility Humanities
The flow of subjective labor and the flow of objective capital. At the moment, more precisely, in the passage of time (which has extended over longer historical periods) in which intrinsically contingent encounters (those of the flows of money-capital and
Capital theory with Deleuze/Guattari or the Anarchy of Machines – 50 years Anti-Ödipus
The new book by Thomas Nail “Theory of the Object” brings on the one hand more clarity to the question of the relation between continuous matter flow, as conceived in his book “Being and Motion”, and discrete objects/particles, on the
Thomas Nails “Theory of the OBject”
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
Im nächsten Kapitel widmet sich Nail dem intensiven bzw. tensionalen Objekt, das im 16. Jahrhundert endgültig anzeigte, das eine Wissenschaft der quantitativen und qualitativen Veränderung (inkl. der unendlichen Zahlen) entstanden war, die die Prozess-Natur der Objekte ernstnahm. Ein intensives Objekt
Thomas Nails “THeory of the Object” (4)
Im ersten Kapitel wiederholt Nail noch einmal seine Thesen zu Flow, Materie und Pedesis, wie er sie in seinem Buch „Being and Motion“ entwickelt hat. Im zweiten Kapitel entwickelt er die These, dass Objekts Flows sind, die sich zu stabilen
Thomas Nails “Theory of the OBject” (2)
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
An Ontology of Motion for a Moving World
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
Theory of The Object (Introduction)
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