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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest. On the contrary, it is a call, a plea, a provocation, a cry, a passionate yearning for an appreciation …
Reading Karen Barad’s Interview in New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies
What is an object? One interesting way to avoid the problem of getting the subject and object back together to secure knoweldge is by not introducing the division in the first place. What if everything was only objects? We could …
What is Object Oriented Ontology? What is Actor Network Theory? What is the Philosophy of Movement?
The human species is doubtless the only one to have invented a specific mode of disappearance that has nothing to do with Nature’s law. pdf here Foto: Bernhard Weber