Author: Thomas Nail File Type: pdf More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility and yet, we lack a unifying theory which takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy. The history of philosophy has systematically explained movement as derived from something else that does not move space, eternity, force, and time. Why, when movement has always been central to human societies, did a philosophy based on movement never take hold? This book finally overturns this long-standing metaphysical tradition by placing movement at the heart of philosophy. In doing so, Being and Motion provides a completely new understanding of the most fundamental categories of ontology from a movement-oriented perspective quality, quantity, relation, modality, and others. It also provides the first history of the philosophy of motion, from early prehistoric mythologies up to contemporary ontologies. Through its systematic ontology of movement, Being and Motion provides a path-breaking historical ontology of our present.**ReviewThis bold and imaginative book outlines an ontology of being as motion and a materialist conception of the ontological practices that underlay previous Western ontologies of space, eternity, force, and time. Its extraordinary ambition to create a new domain of kinetic philosophy is matched by its scope and wide-ranging erudition. Being and Motion is a book for our time.-Paul Patton, Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Sydney This is a remarkable project, comparable in scope and ambition to Martin Heideggers Being and Time. In his earlier books on kinopolitics, Nail showed that we have entered a new kinetic paradigm in politics in which the migrant is the primary figure, and states, borders, and citizenship are all secondary phenomena derived from this regime of people-in-movement. Being and Motion takes this project to a broader ontological level, arguing not only that movement must now be seen as the fundamental category of being, but that ontology itself must become mobile. This is philosophy on a grand scale bold, innovative, and wide-ranging.-Daniel W. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University About the Author Thomas Nail is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the author of Returning to Revolution Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo, The Figure of the Migrant, Theory of the Border, Lucretius I An Ontology of Motion.

Author: Francis Spufford File Type: mobi Once upon a time in the Soviet Union....br Strange as it may seem, the grey, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairytale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called the planned economy, which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working.br Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan, and every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche. Its about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, it give the tyranny its happy ending. Its history, its fiction. Its a comedy of ideas, and a novel about the cost of ideas.br By award-winning (and famously unpredictable) author of The Child That Books Built and Backroom Boys, Red Plenty is as ambitious as Sputnik, as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant - and as different from what you were expecting as a glass of Soviet champagne.