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Notes on ContributorsIn Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail & Daniel Warren Smith (eds.), Between Deleuze and Foucault, Edinburgh University. pp. 294-298. 2016.
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IndexIn Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail & Daniel Warren Smith (eds.), Between Deleuze and Foucault, Edinburgh University. pp. 299-304. 2016.
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36Gilles Deleuze and MetaphysicsLexington Books. 2014.This collection examines an aspect of Gilles Deleuze’s thought that has largely been neglected; whether or not Deleuze was a metaphysician. Answering this question may reveal the problematic nature of so-called postmodernism and the critique it leveled at the first philosophy, and it may help readers to better understand philosophy’s fate
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9Introduction: Between Deleuze and FoucaultIn Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail & Daniel Warren Smith (eds.), Between Deleuze and Foucault, Edinburgh University. pp. 1-8. 2016.
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515. Biopower and ControlIn Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail & Daniel Warren Smith (eds.), Between Deleuze and Foucault, Edinburgh University. pp. 247-263. 2016.
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28Theory of the EarthStanford University Press. 2021.We need a new philosophy of the earth. Geological time used to refer to slow and gradual processes, but today we are watching land sink into the sea and forests transform into deserts. We can even see the creation of new geological strata made of plastic, chicken bones, and other waste that could remain in the fossil record for millennia or longer. Crafting a philosophy of geology that rewrites natural and human history from the broader perspective of movement, Thomas Nail provides a new materia…Read more
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12Between Deleuze and Foucault (edited book)Edinburgh University. 2016.Deleuze and Foucault had a long, complicated and productive relationship, in which each was at various times a significant influence on the other. This collection combines 3 original essays by Deleuze and Foucault, in which they respond to each other's work, with 16 critical essays by key contemporary scholars working in the field. The result is a sustained discussion and analysis of the various dimensions of this fascinating relationship, which clarifies the implications of their philosophical …Read more
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306Introduction to Foucault Studies (April 2014), Special Issue on Foucault and DeleuzeFoucault Studies 17 4-10. 2014.
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15Chapter 2 The Movement of TimeIn Robert W. Luzecky & Daniel W. Smith (eds.), Deleuze and Time, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 27-44. 2023.
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7Lucretius I: an ontology of motionEdinburgh University Press. 2018.The Most Original and Shocking Interpretation of Lucretius in the Last Forty Years, After centuries of abuse by modern atomists and mechanistic materialists, Thomas Nail argues that it is now time to return to De Rerum Natura from the perspective of a new materialism. Nail shows that some of the most important contributions of Lucretius' poem have been completely overlooked or misunderstood. He reinterprets this classical text as an absolutely contemporary one defined by motion and gives us a ge…Read more
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22We Have Always Been PlanetaryEnvironmental Philosophy 19 (2): 191-202. 2022.This essay shows how a new materialist theory of the Earth side-steps the distinction between the global and the planetary that structures Chakrabarty’s historiography. It advocates for a non-binary-generating approach to our planetary situation grounded in the philosophy of motion.
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12Chapter 2 No Gods! No Masters!: From Ontological to Political AnarchismIn Chantelle Gray Van Heerden & Aragorn Eloff (eds.), Deleuze and Anarchism, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 31-46. 2019.
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5Grenzen in BewegungZeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 8 (1). 2021.Zusammenfassung: Dieser Beitrag schlägt einen neuen, bewegungsorientierten grenztheoretischen Ansatz vor. Gegen politikphilosophische Konzeptionen, die Grenzen als statisch und unpassierbar fassen, wird unter Verweis auf historische und empirische Studien gezeigt, dass und inwiefern Grenzen dehnbar, fluktuierend und beweglich sind. Auf dieser Grundlage wird im folgenden Abschnitt argumentiert, dass sich dynamische Prozesse der Grenzziehung am angemessensten in Sinne von Zirkulation begreifen las…Read more
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25Philosophy in the Time of COVIDPhilosophy Today 64 (4): 889-893. 2020.The COVID world is just like it was before, only more so. Every problem that already existed is worse. What can philosophy do in such a world? I think there are at least two opportunities for philosophy today. The first is that philosophers can seize this historical moment to intervene in almost every sector of social, political, and ethical life. The second unique opportunity I think philosophers have is to create new concepts in response to new phenomena. New events call for new ways of thinki…Read more
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10Marx in Motion: A New Materialist MarxismOup Usa. 2020.In a world of rising income inequality, right-wing nationalisms, and global climate change, people are again looking to Karl Marx for answers. This book offers readers a new perspective on several major ideas in Marx's work. It argues that Marx, contrary to convention, did not think history was deterministic or that reality could be reduced to classical materialism. Marx was not an anthropocentric humanist nor did he have a labor theory of value. This book is written to help those returning to M…Read more
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12The Figure of the MigrantStanford University PRess. 2015.This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon. The last decade alone has marked the highest number of migrations in recorded history. Constrained by environmental, economic, and political instability, scores of people are on the move. But other sorts of changes—from global tourism to undocumented labor—have led to the fact that to some extent, we are all becoming migrants. The migrant has become the political figure of our time. Rather than viewing migration as the e…Read more
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124What is new materialism?Angelaki 24 (6): 111-134. 2019.New materialism is one of the most important emerging trends in the humanities and social sciences, but it is also one of the least understood. This is because, as a term of ongoing contest...
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8Theory of the ImageOup Usa. 2019.Theory of the Image offers a new and systematic philosophy of art and aesthetics from the perspective of movement.
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14The Nomadic ProletariatPhilosophy Today 62 (4): 1207-1211. 2018.Thomas Nail’s interview with Alain Badiou focuses on the concept of the migrant, or the sans-papiers. Badiou discusses the importance of this concept in his previous work and for contemporary politics. Nail also inquires into Badiou’s involvement with a migrant-focused political organization, L’Organisation politique, as well as his eventual break with the organization.
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18The politics of borders: Sovereignty, security, and the citizen after 9/11Contemporary Political Theory 19 (3): 206-209. 2020.
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14Being and MotionOup Usa. 2018.More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility; and yet, we lack a single contemporary ontology which takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy. Being and Motion sets out to remedy this lacuna in contemporary thought by providing a historical ontology of our present: an ontology of movement.
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43Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and ZapatismoEdinburgh University Press. 2012.Introduction We have to try and think a little about the meaning of revolution. This term is now so broken and worn out, and has been dragged through so many places, that it's necessary to go back to a basic, albeit elementary, definition.
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29Zapatismo and the Global Origins of OccupyJournal for Cultural and Religious Theory 12 (3): 20-35. 2013.
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Social and Political Philosophy |
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