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Thomas Nail - Marx and Motion

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Pluralism of Lucretius' Materialism

In the first 37 lines, it's extremely eroticized. There's all these layers of naturalism and eroticism in ways that remind me very much of Batai's solar anus bomb. And then many of us is going to see what the nature of things are by watching essentially Lucretius have sex with Venus and then spread his seed. It's not this kind of genealogical story. It's this kind of like spreading of seed, the haphazard distribution of the seed which shows something about the nature ofThings. Certain things are going to grow out of other things. I think that that's true of a lot of ancient literature of sort of, you know, Bow

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