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October 21, 2023

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

Michel Serresstate of nature

March 1, 2023

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

Uncategorized

October 1, 2022

Guest post: For Woman, Life, Freedom

August 16, 2022

AUDIO TALK: Michel Serres and the Parasitic Unmaking of Modernity

July 6, 2022

Podcast: “Renewing our Mental Models With Michel Serres”

social contractstate of nature

March 10, 2022

VIDEO: Towards a General Theory of Figures

December 10, 2021

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

social contract

December 9, 2021

Video: Where is Rousseau’s state of nature?

social contractstate of nature

October 11, 2021

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

August 30, 2021

The state of nature as social critique

social contractstate of nature

August 20, 2021

The State of Nature – An Idea that Shapes Us

Uncategorized

July 30, 2021

Video: Advice on securing a large academic grant

social contract

February 23, 2021

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

December 18, 2020

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

November 10, 2020

Michel Serres and the New Social Contract

social contractEtienne Balibar

October 21, 2020

Interview: Michel Serres, Philosophy and the Contemporary World

September 18, 2020

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

September 11, 2020

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

Crosscurrentsecology

September 9, 2020

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

September 3, 2020

The natural contract: four objections answered

Paul Ricoeursocial contract

September 1, 2020

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

August 23, 2020

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

social contract

August 17, 2020

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

Uncategorizedsocial contract

August 12, 2020

Christianity and the social contract: preliminary reflections

Freedom, liberation and emancipationsocial contract

August 9, 2020

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

Jean-Luc NancyFreedom, liberation and emancipationsocial contract

July 27, 2020

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

Freedom, liberation and emancipationsocial contract

June 19, 2020

COVID-19 and the social contract

June 8, 2020

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

May 12, 2020

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

May 8, 2020

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

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

April 9, 2020

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

March 31, 2020

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

March 22, 2020

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

March 20, 2020

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

March 18, 2020

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

Michel SerresMichel Serres: Figures of ThoughtModernism

March 16, 2020

Call for Papers: The Ends of Autonomy

March 13, 2020

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

March 13, 2020

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

February 27, 2020

So you want to read Michel Serres? Start here

February 20, 2020

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

AtheismDifficult Atheism

February 13, 2020

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

February 12, 2020

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

December 16, 2019

Michel Serres book excerpt: The end of the Neolithic

December 9, 2019

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

December 2, 2019

Michel Serres book excerpt: The origin of language

November 25, 2019

Michel Serres book excerpt: Percolation and multiple temporalities

November 18, 2019

Michel Serres book excerpt: Let’s talk about Serres’ style

Michel SerresTalks and excerpts

September 29, 2019

Michel Serres book excerpt: Serres’ algorithmic universal

July 16, 2019

Representing French and Francophone Studies with Michel Serres

ecologyMichel SerresTalks and excerpts

June 17, 2019

Michel Serres book excerpt: Serres, Leibniz, and umbilical thinking

June 5, 2019

Why Michel Serres is, and is not, an ecological thinker

In this excerpt from Michel Serres: Figures of Thought I address the question of…

Michel FoucaultMichel SerresImmanuel Kant

June 3, 2019

Kant, Foucault and Serres on the a priori

Michel Serres' "objective transcendental" naturalises the a priori, taking a…

Michel SerresMichel Serres: Figures of ThoughtTalks and excerpts

June 2, 2019

Why Michel Serres? A Personal Reflection

On the day of Michel Serres’s death, I reflect on what drew me to write on this…

Michel SerresMichel Serres and filmTalks and excerpts

May 25, 2019

Michel Serres and film 4: Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville

Talks and excerptsWestern culture

May 22, 2019

From Plato to Postmodernism: Introduction

Michel SerresMichel Serres and filmTalks and excerpts

May 17, 2019

Michel Serres and film 3: Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Trois Couleurs Bleu

Freedom, liberation and emancipationclimate change

May 16, 2019

Infographic: How does online reporting of climate change frame the question of freedom?

Michel SerresAgnès VardaMichel Serres and filmTalks and excerpts

May 13, 2019

Michel Serres and film 2: Agnès Varda’s Sans toit ni loi

Michel SerresAgnès VardaMichel Serres and filmTalks and excerpts

May 6, 2019

Michel Serres and film 1: Agnès Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7

April 3, 2019

My paper “Nancy is a thinker of Radical Emancipation”, with a response by Jean-Luc Nancy

Jean-Luc NancyFreedom, liberation and emancipation

March 1, 2019

Abstract for Thinking with Nancy conference: Nancy is a thinker of radical emancipation

March 1, 2019

New project: How stories of liberation shape our selves and our society

Code and appsResearch hacks

February 14, 2019

Michel Serres book project update: Draft Introduction

March 10, 2018

Research Hacks #25: Another time-saving Microsoft Word macro for academics

Kevin Hart

November 9, 2017

My review of Kevin Hart’s Poetry and Revelation in Los Angeles Review of Books

UncategorizedTeaching ideas

October 27, 2017

Helping university students to approach language learning as a way of life, not a slot on the timetable

Learning tools

October 23, 2017

My first experience of creating a chatbot, and how bots might be used in teaching foreign languages

Alain BadiouBruno LatourCatherine MalabouFrench Philosophy TodayMichel SerresQuentin Meillassoux

October 17, 2017

Research Hacks #24: What we think about when we think about academic impact

Catherine Malabou

September 13, 2017

If my brain is damaged, do I become a different person? Catherine Malabou and neuro-identity

September 11, 2017

French Philosophy Today paperback now shipping

August 30, 2017

YouTube video of my paper on Michel Serres and the Question of Alterity in Recent French Thought, with improved audio

AestheticsCrosscurrents

August 28, 2017

Stephen Zepke’s Sublime Art now available: details of giveaway/exchange offer

Michel SerresDisseminating research

August 26, 2017

Download the handout for my live-streamed paper on Serres and alterity this coming Tuesday

Disseminating research

August 23, 2017

Reflections on live streaming academic papers with remote Q&A

Alain BadiouJacques DerridaMichel SerresMichel Serres: Figures of Thought

August 21, 2017

I’m planning to tweet live video of my research seminar on Michel Serres and the Question of Alterity next Tuesday

Code and appsResearch hacks

July 27, 2017

Research Hacks #23: Three Microsoft Word macros for quick mark-up of articles, essays and thesis chapters

Alain BadiouBruno LatourCatherine MalabouFrench Philosophy TodayMichel SerresQuentin Meillassoux

July 24, 2017

Research hacks #22: Come to terms with a new theory or thinker by using an ‘assumptions pyramid’

July 12, 2017

French Philosophy Today paperback now on Amazon pre-order

Quentin MeillassouxWhat is a theological concept?

July 10, 2017

Research hacks #21: One to-do list to rule them all

July 3, 2017

What is a theological concept? Part 5: Quentin Meillassoux, reason, and hyperchaos

AtheismJean-Luc NancyWhat is a theological concept?

June 27, 2017

What is a theological concept? Part 4: Jean-Luc Nancy’s “something in Christianity deeper than Christianity”

Guest PostAlbert Camus

June 22, 2017

Guest Post: Albert Camus and Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree

Alain BadiouAtheismJean-Luc NancyWhat is a theological concept?

June 22, 2017

What is a theological concept? Part 3: Alain Badiou’s interruption of the mytheme by the matheme and Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Christmas Projection”

AestheticsAlain BadiouCrosscurrentsGilles DeleuzeJacques DerridaJacques Rancière

June 21, 2017

How art can create a new future: Stephen Zepke, Sublime Art

What is a theological concept?

June 19, 2017

What is a theological concept? Part 2: A schema for distinguishing between different atheisms

What is a theological concept?

June 15, 2017

Michel Serres: From Restricted to General Ecology

June 12, 2017

What is a theological concept? Part 1: Introduction

May 18, 2017

Research hacks #20: Why it pays to plan your ideal week, and an Excel workbook to help you

May 15, 2017

Research hacks #19: Three benefits of time logging for academics, and one easy-to-use time logging app

April 30, 2017

Research hacks #18: 20 further tips on fielding questions after a conference paper

April 27, 2017

Research hacks #17: 15 tips on fielding questions after a conference paper

April 24, 2017

Research hacks #16: 20 tips on timekeeping and technology for your conference presentation

April 20, 2017

Research hacks #15: 15 Tips on delivering a conference paper

April 13, 2017

Research hacks #14: 15 tips on planning and writing a conference paper

April 13, 2017

Research Hacks # 13: The power of planning your research project

April 10, 2017

Research hacks intermezzo: A cornucopia of writing and publishing advice from Stuart Elden

April 6, 2017

Research hacks #12: Seven ways of keeping up to date with developments in your field

April 3, 2017

Research hacks #11: Let your arguments breathe

March 30, 2017

Research Hacks #10: How to present a smart, well-crafted argument

March 27, 2017

Research Hacks #9: Building an argument with the “it’s not as simple as that” tool

March 23, 2017

Research hacks #8: How to know when “good enough” is good enough in academic writing

March 20, 2017

Research hacks #7: Read everything, but not in the same way

Jacques DerridaDerrida diagrammed

March 13, 2017

Research Hacks # 6: Capture every important thought you have, even on the go

March 8, 2017

Explaining Derrida with Diagrams 2: Messianicity without messianism

Paul RicoeurGuest PostSylvia Plath

March 6, 2017

Guest Post: Sylvia Plath, Paul Ricoeur and the language of madness

Code and appsResearch hacks

March 1, 2017

Research Hacks # 5: Microsoft Word macros for academics

Jacques DerridaDerrida diagrammed

February 27, 2017

Explaining Derrida with Diagrams 1: Différance

February 23, 2017

Research Hacks #4: One important question to increase the focus of your academic research

February 20, 2017

Research Hacks #3: Help! I can’t settle on a research project

February 15, 2017

Research Hacks #2: Three important questions to ask before you choose a new research project