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  1. What is new materialism?Christopher N. Gamble, Joshua S. Hanan & Thomas Nail - 2019 - Angelaki 24 (6):111-134.
    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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  2. What is an Assemblage?Thomas Nail - 2017 - Substance 46 (1):21-37.
    The concept of assemblage plays a crucial role in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. In a 1980 interview with Catherine Clément, Deleuze describes their invention of the concept of the assemblage as the “general logic” at work in A Thousand Plateaus. However, despite its thirty years of influence on political theory, this “general logic of the assemblage” still remains obscured by the fact that Deleuze and Guattari never formalized it as a theory per se, but largely used (...)
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    Theory of the Earth.Thomas Nail - 2021 - Stanford University Press.
    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 (...)
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  4. Introduction to Foucault Studies (April 2014), Special Issue on Foucault and Deleuze.Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail & Daniel W. Smith - 2014 - Foucault Studies 17:4-10.
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    15. Biopower and Control.Thomas Nail - 2016 - In Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail & Daniel Warren Smith (eds.), Between Deleuze and Foucault. Edinburgh University. pp. 247-263.
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    Between Deleuze and Foucault.Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail & Daniel Warren Smith (eds.) - 2016 - Edinburgh University.
    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 encounter.
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    Being and Motion.Thomas Nail - 2018 - Oup Usa.
    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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    Alain Badiou and the Sans-Papiers.Thomas Nail - 2015 - Angelaki 20 (4):109-130.
    The rising number of non-status migrants is one of the central political issues of our time. This essay argues that if we want to understand the political and philosophical importance of this phenomenon, the contributions of Alain Badiou, his militant group L'Organisation politique, and the struggle of the sans-papiers movement in France are absolutely crucial. This is the case because, I will argue, Badiou, the OP, and the sans-papiers created a new kind of migrant justice struggle in the mid-1990s that (...)
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    Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism.Thomas Nail - 2020 - Oup Usa.
    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 (...)
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    Chapter 2 No Gods! No Masters!: From Ontological to Political Anarchism.Thomas Nail - 2019 - In Chantelle Gray Van Heerden & Aragorn Eloff (eds.), Deleuze and Anarchism. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 31-46.
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    Lucretius I: an ontology of motion.Thomas Nail - 2018 - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
    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 genuinely new (...)
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    Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo.Thomas Nail - 2012 - Edinburgh University Press.
    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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    Zapatismo and the Global Origins of Occupy.Thomas Nail - 2013 - Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 12 (3):20-35.
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    The Nomadic Proletariat.Thomas Nail - 2018 - Philosophy Today 62 (4):1207-1211.
    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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    Introduction: Between Deleuze and Foucault.Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail & Daniel W. Smith - 2016 - In Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail & Daniel Warren Smith (eds.), Between Deleuze and Foucault. Edinburgh University. pp. 1-8.
  16. Expression, Immanence and Constructivism: 'Spinozism' and Gilles Deleuze.Thomas Nail - 2008 - Deleuze and Guatarri Studies 2 (2):201-219.
    This paper is an attempt to explicate the relationship between Spinozist expressionism and philosophical constructivism in Deleuze's work through the concept of immanent causality. Deleuze finds in Spinoza a philosophy of immanent causality used to solve the problem of the relation between substance, attribute and mode as an expression of substance. But, when he proceeds to take up this notion of immanent causality found in Spinoza in Difference and Repetition, Deleuze instead inverts it into a modal one such that the (...)
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    Migrant Cosmopolitanism.Thomas Nail - 2014 - Public Affairs Quarterly 29 (2):187–199.
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    Deleuze, Occupy, and the Actuality of Revolution.Thomas Nail - forthcoming - Theory and Event 16 (1).
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    The Crossroads of Power: Michel Foucault and the US/Mexico Border Wall.Thomas Nail - 2013 - Foucault Studies 15:110-128.
    This paper draws on the work of Michel Foucault in order to analyze the constellation of political strategies and power at the US/Mexico border wall. These strategies, however, are incredibly diverse and often directly antagonistic of one another. Thus, this paper argues that in order to make sense of the seemingly multiple and contradictory political strategies deployed in the operation of the US/Mexico border wall, we have to understand the coexistence and intertwinement of at least three distinct types of power (...)
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    We Have Always Been Planetary.Thomas Nail - 2022 - Environmental Philosophy 19 (2):191-202.
    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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  21. Pierre Klossowski, Living Currency.Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail & Daniel W. Smith (eds.) - 2017 - Bloomsbury.
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    Black Hole Materialism.Christopher Neil Gamble & Thomas Nail - 2020 - Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 36.
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    A Post-Neoliberal Ecopolitics? Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo.Thomas Nail - 2010 - Philosophy Today 54 (2):179-190.
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    Constructivism and the Future Anterior of Radical Politics.Thomas Nail - 2010 - Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies 1:73–94.
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    Chapter 2 The Movement of Time.Thomas Nail - 2023 - In Robert W. Luzecky & Daniel W. Smith (eds.), Deleuze and Time. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 27-44.
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    Grenzen in Bewegung.Thomas Nail - 2021 - Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 8 (1).
    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 lassen: Anstatt Mobilität zu verhindern und stabile Formen von Ein- bzw. Ausschluss zu etablieren, stellen Grenzen Regime sozialer Zirkulation dar, welche Menschen, (...)
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    "History and Event in Alain Badiou", by Quentin Meillassoux, translated by Thomas Nail.Thomas Nail - 2011 - Parrhesia 12:1–11.
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    Matter and Motion: A Brief History of Kinetic Materialism.Thomas Nail - 2023 - Edinburgh University Press.
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    Migration and the New Communist Politics.Thomas Nail - 2022 - Radical Philosophy Review 25 (1):139-143.
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    Philosophy in the Time of COVID.Thomas Nail - 2020 - Philosophy Today 64 (4):889-893.
    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 (...)
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    Theory of the Image.Thomas Nail - 2019 - Oup Usa.
    Theory of the Image offers a new and systematic philosophy of art and aesthetics from the perspective of movement.
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    Theory of the Object.Thomas Nail - 2021 - Edinburgh University Press.
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    The philosophy of movement: an introduction.Thomas Nail - 2024 - Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
    Synthesizing and extending many years of influential work, the Philosophy of Movement is a comprehensive argument for how motion is the primary force in human and natural history. Thomas Nail interrogates the consequences of movement throughout history and in daily life in the twenty-first century, drawing connections and tracing patterns between scales of reality, periods of history, and fields of knowledge to offer a contemporary philosophy.
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    The politics of borders: Sovereignty, security, and the citizen after 9/11.Thomas Nail - 2020 - Contemporary Political Theory 19 (3):206-209.
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    Violence at the Borders.Thomas Nail - 2012 - Radical Philosophy Review 15 (1):241-257.
    This paper argues that borders and violence against migrants no longer takes place exclusively at the geographical space between two sovereign territories. Instead border violence today has become much more normalized and diffused into society itself. An entire privatized industry now capitalizes on the cycle of transporting, incarcerating, hiring, and releasing non-status migrants. Similarly, however, resistance to this violence is also shifting from the older confrontation with sovereignty and the demands for rights to the larger aim of making the non-status (...)
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    Gilles Deleuze and Metaphysics.Arnauld Villani, Alberto Anelli, Rocco Gangle, Sjoerd van Tuinen, Joshua Ramey, Daniel Whistler, Adrian Switzer, Gregory Kalyniuk, Thomas Nail & Mary Beth Mader - 2014 - Lexington Books.
    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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    Deleuze and Environmental Damage. [REVIEW]Thomas Nail - 2006 - Environmental Philosophy 3 (2):64-66.
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    François Dosse , Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari: Biographie croisée (Paris: Éditions la Découverte, 2007), translated as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010). [REVIEW]Thomas Nail - 2012 - Foucault Studies 14:218-222.