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Talks and excerpts

Here are all my chapters, talks, interviews, reviews, articles, lectures and excerpts available on this site.

July 16, 2019

Representing French and Francophone Studies with Michel Serres

June 5, 2019

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

June 2, 2019

Why Michel Serres? A Personal Reflection

May 25, 2019

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

May 22, 2019

From Plato to Postmodernism: Introduction

May 17, 2019

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

May 13, 2019

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

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

August 30, 2017

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

December 9, 2016

The Return of Religion, Kettle Logic, and the Secular Dilemma

July 16, 2016

My review of Ignaas Devisch’s Jean-Luc Nancy and the Question of Community now available on the H-France website

March 28, 2016

Michel Serres’s The Parasite: A Reader’s Guide. 148 page document to download

March 23, 2016

Third Derrida Podcast: Derrida, Atheism and Theology

March 15, 2016

Second in the Derrida and Reformed Theology Podcast series: Derrida’s Ethics

March 10, 2016

Podcast on Derrida, metaphysics and Reformed theology

September 4, 2015

Rethinking alterity and logocentrism after phenomenology with Serres’s L’Hermaphrodite: Sarrasine sculpteur (1987)

July 6, 2015

Draft entry for a Michel Serres Dictionary: Le Système de Leibniz et ses modèles mathématiques (1968)

May 21, 2015

Michel Serres Today: new paper uploaded to academia.edu

March 30, 2015

We have always been plastic: Catherine Malabou with Gregory of Nyssa and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

July 17, 2014

Review of Rancière Now: Current Perspectives on Jacques Rancière

April 19, 2014

My review of Hollis Phelps Alain Badiou Between Theology and Anti-Theology published in French Studies

December 12, 2013

De omni re scibili: Kevin Hart

November 23, 2013

Michel Serres–from Biosemiotics to Econarratology

July 26, 2013

Thinking Equality Today: Badiou, Rancière, Nancy

July 3, 2013

Review of Joe Hughes, Philosophy after Deleuze

June 28, 2013

Review for NDPR – Marie-Eve Morin, Jean-Luc Nancy

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