Philosophy of Matter

Rick Dolphijn is Associate Professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands; an Honorary Professor at Hong Kong University (2017-2023), Hong Kong; and a Visiting Professor at the University of Barcelona (2019-2020), Spain. He is author of Foodscapes: towards a Deleuzian Ethics of Consumption (2004), New Materialism: Interviews and Cartographies (with Iris van der Tuin) (2012) and edited (with Rosi Braidotti) This Deleuzian Century: Art, Activism, Life (2014) and Philosophy After Nature (2017). His most recent book is Michel Serres and the Crises of the Contemporary (Bloomsbury 2018).

It is a rare book that can be, at once, so seismically unsettling and yet so sumptuously composed. The world is breaking, broken. By deftly tracking among and between the cracks that are everywhere – in literature, philosophy, dance, architecture, the earth’s surface and substrata – Rick Dolphijn’s meditation should be profoundly melancholic (and often it is) but it arrives with the Spinozist grace of a benediction.

• Introduction Part I IMAGINING THE UNDERCURRENT I Don’t Know Where This Is Going but I Know Where to Begin...The History Of Cartesianism Is The History Of Critique Why our world demands a different form of thinking Rewriting Humanism Imagination Is What Matters… It Nurtures EverythingPart II THIS IS NOT THE EARTH! The Philosopher is the Geometer The Deserted… The Pathologists Of The Earth Become A Target Part III I CAN SEE SOMETHING I Am Not A Person, Right? Shadows In Shadows The Cracks Of The Contemporary The Wound (I Was Born To Embody) Part IV GEOMETER, SHOW ME A NEW EARTH The Geometer Starts From A Physics Beyond Critique The Geometers First Axiom: A Body Is That Which Folds The Geometer Maps That Which Is Savage, Irregular, Alive The Geometer Maps How Art Objects Earth… You Are Everywhere