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

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