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 […]
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
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
Lucretius and the immanence of motion
Thomas Nail.Christopher N Gamble. Joshua Hanan. This paper argues that there is currently no single definition of new materialism but at least three distinct and partly incompatible trajectories. All three of these trajectories share at least one common theoretical commitment:
At the very beginning of Technics and Time, I pointed out that when Marx posits in Capital that we require a theory of technical evolution, which would be an extension of Darwinian theory, he at the same time raises the
On the Need for a Hyper-Materialist Epistemology