{"product_id":"matter-and-motion-a-brief-history-of-kinetic-materialism-9781399525435","title":"Matter and Motion: A Brief History of Kinetic Materialism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThomas Nail traces an alternative history of ancient and modern thinkers who share a radically different understanding of the nature of matter and motion compared to the rest of the Euro-Western tradition. From Archaic Greek poetry and Bronze Age Minoan religion to the Roman poet Lucretius, and from German philosopher Karl Marx and English writer Virginia Woolf to contemporary physicists Carlo Rovelli and Karen Barad, Nail identifies a minor tradition of what he calls 'kinetic materialism' and its three central ideas: indeterminacy, relationality and process. \u003cbr\u003eFor the most part, Western thinkers have considered matter and motion to be inferior to more formal and static principles. Philosophers placed metaphysical categories such as eternity, God, the soul, forms and essences at the 'top' of a hierarchy that secured and ordered the movement at the bottom. This has real consequences in our world. By placing stasis above motion, this hierarchy places form above matter, life above death, God above humans, humans above nature, men above women, white skin above brown skin, the first world over the third world, citizens above migrants, straight above queer... The result? Patriarchy, capitalism, racism, homophobia, ecocide. Nail seeks to undermine this inherited hierarchy and the notion that matter and motion are inferior. There are no fixed authorities. This new history of matter and motion leaves the good life up to us, whoever we may become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Nail is Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the award-winning author of eight prestigious University Press books which cover a wide range of topics including migration, borders, technology, digital media, history, science, economics, contemporary politics and climate change. His current research focuses on the influence of mobility on society and the arts in the 21st century. His work has been translated into ten major languages and cited across more than 20 academic disciplines. His published books are \u003ci\u003eMarx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford University Press, 2020), \u003ci\u003eLucretius II: An Ethics of Motion\u003c\/i\u003e (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Image\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford University Press, 2019), \u003ci\u003eBeing and Motion\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford University Press, 2018), \u003ci\u003eLucretius I: An Ontology of Motion\u003c\/i\u003e (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Border\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford University Press, 2016), \u003ci\u003eThe Figure of the Migrant\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford University Press, 2015) and \u003ci\u003eReturning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo\u003c\/i\u003e (Edinburgh University Press, 2012). He also writes for \u003ci\u003eAeon: Ideas and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQuartz\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePacific Standard: The Science of Society\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHistory News Network\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMonthly Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50661621563666,"sku":"9781399525435","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_409322cd-a7f6-4a7b-be2c-c6775ef78d41.jpg?v=1733502474","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/matter-and-motion-a-brief-history-of-kinetic-materialism-9781399525435","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}