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Christopher Watkin

November 8, 2024

The State of Naure and the Shaping of Modernity: Introduction


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July 20, 2024

Teaching hacks #1: Quick way to bulk create, name, populate and share Google docs from a list of names and emails


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November 20, 2023

Video: Panel on Biblical Critical Theory at ETS Conference


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November 18, 2023

Video: Panel on Biblical Critical Theory at ETS Conference


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October 21, 2023

Research Hacks #27: VBA to mark up a Word document for reading


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March 1, 2023

Research Hacks #26: A Macro to search for text across all open Word documents


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August 16, 2022

AUDIO TALK: Michel Serres and the Parasitic Unmaking of Modernity


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July 6, 2022

Podcast: “Renewing our Mental Models With Michel Serres”


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March 10, 2022

VIDEO: Towards a General Theory of Figures


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December 10, 2021

Video: Our fractured state of nature: environment, emancipation, ecnonomy


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December 9, 2021

Video: Where is Rousseau’s state of nature?


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October 11, 2021

SPEP 2020 video and paper: Remembering and Thinking with Michel Serres


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August 30, 2021

The state of nature as social critique


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August 20, 2021

The State of Nature – An Idea that Shapes Us


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July 30, 2021

Video: Advice on securing a large academic grant


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February 23, 2021

TALK Rewriting the Social Contract – the Role of Christian Social Institutions


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December 18, 2020

YouTube videos of ‘Ends of Autonomy’ colloquium papers: surveillance, neoliberalism, climate


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November 10, 2020

Michel Serres and the New Social Contract


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October 21, 2020

Interview: Michel Serres, Philosophy and the Contemporary World


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September 18, 2020

Towards a general clinamatics: narrative, the social contract, and four pages of Balibar


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September 11, 2020

Poverty, Precarity, Ecology – Michel Serres’s natural contract


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September 9, 2020

Interview with Aidan Tynan about his new book The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy


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September 3, 2020

The natural contract: four objections answered


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September 1, 2020

How a contract with the natural world can help us address the climate crisis


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August 23, 2020

The social contract is imaginary. That’s why it’s so powerful


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August 17, 2020

What are the conditions of a strong social contract? Ricoeur on Rawls


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August 12, 2020

Christianity and the social contract: preliminary reflections


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August 9, 2020

COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter: The apocalypse of the social contract


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July 27, 2020

António Guterres, Jean-Luc Nancy, and the new social contract


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June 19, 2020

COVID-19 and the social contract


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June 8, 2020

An experimental video lecture on Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape


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May 12, 2020

More unacceptable reasons to enjoy the pandemic. Let’s read Camus’s La Peste #8


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May 8, 2020

The unspoken pandemic: on the illicit enjoyment of plague. Let’s read Camus’s La Peste #7


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April 11, 2020

An Easter meditation: On the very idea of having something to say about COVID-19. Let’s read Camus’ La Peste #6


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April 9, 2020

Pandemics, the phenomenology of statistics, and the numerical sublime. Let’s read Camus’ La Peste #5


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March 31, 2020

The Ends of Autonomy: Updated CFP outlining new arrangements for remote participation


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March 22, 2020

Pandemic temporality: the strange times of COVID-19. Let’s read Camus’ La Peste #4


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March 20, 2020

Bonkers is the new normal: escalating paradigm shifts in the progress of a pandemic. Let’s read Camus’ La Peste #3


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March 18, 2020

Epidemics are apocalyptic, but not in the way we might think. Let’s read Camus’ La Peste #1


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March 16, 2020

Call for Papers: The Ends of Autonomy


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March 13, 2020

Plato’s cave, Michel Serres, and imagining Nietzsche’s madman happy


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March 13, 2020

Let’s read Albert Camus’s La Peste (The Plague) together


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February 27, 2020

So you want to read Michel Serres? Start here


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February 20, 2020

The inkling of a different reality. Let’s read Camus’ La Peste #2


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February 13, 2020

Which God(s) do you (not) believe in? An interview with Christopher Watkin, Journal of Baudrillard Studies


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February 12, 2020

Video of my Stanford talk. Michel Serres: Thinking in Figures


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December 16, 2019

Michel Serres book excerpt: The end of the Neolithic


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December 9, 2019

Michel Serres book excerpt: Pragmatogony, prehistory and the cadaverous object


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December 2, 2019

Michel Serres book excerpt: The origin of language


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November 25, 2019

Michel Serres book excerpt: Percolation and multiple temporalities


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