BOOK REVIEW (2020) Nomadland. Highwayman Films, Hear/Say Productions, Cor Cordium Productions: Los Angeles.

In Holzwege (wooden-paths), Heidegger (2002) proposes a metaphor between walking aimlessly through nature and the act of thinking by wandering, taking paths which lead nowhere. What matters for thinking is the continuous misdirection, the irreducible wandering through off-beat tracks, unhindered by pre-set destinations. Only in this way can new possibilities of thinking (and life) be engendered. Nomadland, directed by Chloé Zhao, starring Frances McDormand (who is also a producer on the film), David Strathairn and a number of non-professional actors, is essentially about wander- ing, the challenges of losing oneself in one’s own potential of being-other.