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 Kinocene should therefore be aloud wake-up call to us that ...
Movement is a common feature of all posthuman systems. In contrast to
essences, 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’ at
their limits but the whole system ...
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 history of its material and practical conditions of inscription. ...
Migration, mobility, motion, Movement, Ontology of Motion, trans
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 discrete because they are folds of infinitely continuous vibrating fields. ...
