Motion is not just a new way to think about the world. It is a synthetic description of life in the 21st century based on our shared experience of increasing mobility, displacement, and instability. These movements are changing every structure on …
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 …
Instead, Lucretius offers a profoundly indeterminate ending to the poem and the end of the world in which no static gods live in between worlds. For Lucretius, the gods are just ideas in our minds. No gods, ideas, or arts …
Process Ontology and Becoming The historical precursors of the philosophy of motion have also had a major influence on a number of contemporary process ontologies, or ontologies of becoming. Process ontology, like the ontology of movement, emphasizes flux and becoming …
What is the difference between process philosophy and the philosophy of movement?
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 …
