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researcher, lecturer and author in Contemporary European Thought: Atheism and Religion

November 25, 2019

Michel Serres book excerpt: Percolation and multiple temporalities

November 18, 2019

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

September 29, 2019

Michel Serres book excerpt: Serres’ algorithmic universal

July 16, 2019

Representing French and Francophone Studies with Michel Serres

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

June 3, 2019

Kant, Foucault and Serres on the a priori

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 16, 2019

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

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

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

February 14, 2019

Michel Serres book project update: Draft Introduction

March 10, 2018

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

November 9, 2017

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

October 27, 2017

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

October 23, 2017

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

October 17, 2017

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

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

August 28, 2017

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

August 26, 2017

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

August 23, 2017

Reflections on live streaming academic papers with remote Q&A

August 21, 2017

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

July 27, 2017

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

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

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

June 27, 2017

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

June 22, 2017

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

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”

June 21, 2017

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

June 19, 2017

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

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

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