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 …
Das historische Regime der Bewegung (2) Im Mittelalter haben wir es laut Nail mit dem kinetischen Regime der tensionalen Kraft zu tun, einerseits der theologischen Beschreibung des Seins als Kraft, andererseits der kinographischen Erfindung des Buchs. Dabei bleibt die Kraft …
Thomas Nails Magnum Opus “Being and Motion” – eine Sensation in materialistischer Philosophie (6)
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 …
Einleitung Sein Magnum Opus „Being and Motion“ beginnt Thomas Nail mit dem lapidaren Satz “Wir leben im Zeitalter der Bewegung.“ Als Anhaltspunkte dienen für Nail, dass wir unter sozialen Gesichtspunkten heute riesige migrantische Bewegungen haben, die Migranten selbst einen Umfang …
Thomas Nails Magnum Opus “Being and Motion” – eine Sensation in materialistischer Philosophie (1)
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 …
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 …
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 …
Movement is a common feature of all posthuman systems. In contrast toessences, forms and structures, which are defined by stasis, immutability,fixity and anthropocentrism, kinetic systems are defined by their flux,mobility and circulation. Kinetic systems are not just ‘open’ or ‘closed’ …
Being and Motion thus makes at least three novel and intertwined interventions: it provides (1) an original and systematic ontology of motion alongside (2) the first history of the philosophy of motion in the Western tradition, in relation to (3) …
The answer to the central question at the heart of modern science, ‘Is nature continuous or discrete?’ is as radical as it is simple. Space-time is not continuous because it is made of quantum granules, but quantum granules are not …
Is nature continuous or discrete? How the atomist error was born