Thomas 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 Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism (Oxford University Press, 2020), Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Theory of the Image (Oxford University Press, 2019), Being and Motion (Oxford University Press, 2018), Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), Theory of the Border (Oxford University Press, 2016), The Figure of the Migrant (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo (Edinburgh University Press, 2012). He also writes for Aeon: Ideas and Culture, The Huffington Post, Quartz, Pacific Standard: The Science of Society, History News Network and Monthly Review.

Introduction
An Ethics of Motion
Lucretian Ethics
- Against Stasis, Against ataraxia
- Against Transcendent Values
Method
- Historical Ontology
- Close Reading
- Translation
- Argumentation
Conclusion
Notes

Book III

1. A Matter of Desire
Against Religion
False Footsteps
Pedetic Ethics
- Materialist Ethics
- The Swallow
- The Goat
- The Bee
The Birth of Spring
The Ecstasy of the Sensuous
Conclusion
Notes

2. Kinophobia
Death Matters
Liquid Desire
Practical Ethics
The Mask of Materialism
Statism and the Wound of Life
Primitive Accumulation
Of Stasis, Statues, and States
Hatred of the Body
Pietas: Collective Ethics
Transcendental Materialism
Conclusion
Notes

3. Critique of Kinetic Reason

The Material Conditions of Reason
Critique of Harmonic Reason
- The Discordant Harmony of the Soul
Critique of Pure Emotion
- Affect Theory
Weaving the Soul
- Critique of Atomic Reason
Conclusion
Notes

4. Dark Materialism
Folded Matters
- The Material Soul
- The Folded Soul
- The Elemental Soul
The Ethical Indeterminacy of Matter
- Touching on Nature
Ontology and Ethics
The Thermodynamics of Emotion
Thermodynamic Ethics
The Dying Soul
Decaying Life
The Movement of Death
- The Woven Vessel
The Scatology of Spirit
Migrant Nature
Conclusion
Notes

5. The Ethics of Motion
Death has no Value
The Kinetic Theory of Memory
Ethical Abstraction
Ethics for a Leaky Basket
Property is Theft!
What is the Ethics of Motion?
- Pedetic Ethics: Tantalus and Fors Fortuna
- Entropic Ethics: Tityos and Leto
- Collective Ethics: Sisyphus and Fasces
Conclusion
Notes

Book IV

6. Ethics of the Simulacrum
The Language of Flowers
Process Ethics of the Simulacrum
Theory of the Simulacrum
- Diffraction
Drawing Figures
- Swerving Figures
Material Ecology and Environmental Affect
- Weaving String Figures
Brevi spatio, temporis in puncto
Conclusion
Notes

7. All Perceptions are True
The Flow of Things
Interweaving Sensation
Mathesis naturalis
The Fault of the Mind
Against Scepticism: Against Idealism
The Diffractive Harmony of the Senses
The Language of the World
The Ecokinetic Imagination
Conclusion
Notes

8. The Material Unconscious
Against Utilitarianism
Nature's Mind
Knowledge and Dreams
Libido
The Wound of Love
The Knots of Love
Feminine Desire
Maternal Seeds
Semele and Dionysus
Conclusion
Notes

Conclusion
The New Lucretius
The Kinetic Lucretius
Motivations and Aspirations
Notes

Index