A wonderful set of photographs of Michel Serres taken late in his life by the independent photographer Esther Suave. See her website: https://esthersuave.com/portfolio/michel-serres/

https://mothlife.org/article/michel-serres-and-the-reinvention-of-ecological-thought/

Second in the series: Philosophy for a Time of Crisis More information: My Books “In my reading, this is the best introduction to Serres’ complex, imaginative, and profound thinking that has not lost any of its relevance for the times we are living through”. Professor...

I make available an essay described as an Afterword from my book Michel Serres and the Climate Crisis (Series: Philosophy for a Time of Crisis- 1), 2026. Synopsis: Probably Shakespeare’s last play, The Tempest, replays Serres’ thoughts on the figure of the ‘Parasite’....

 Manifesto "How should we invent another culture? Not thinking about it, not talking about it, not organising ever useless colloquia, but really contributing to it? I propose an appropriate action - here it is- drawn once again from the Grand Narrative". Michel Serres...

Télécharger essai: Qui est Michel Serres?

Hosted by the Institut de France, the Michel Serres Foundation aims to "foster research and publications on the work of Michel Serres, as well as initiatives that put his thought into practice". In accordance with the philosopher’s wishes, the foundation has three...

This essay is a revised opening chapter from my eBook: Michel Serres and the Planetary Emergency. Click to download: Intro-Essay 2

Occasional Essay (1) Abstract The Global Justice Report was published in June 2026. The report sets out a vision for ‘global progress’ in this century that includes ‘human development and equality’ and  ‘planetary habitability’. The authors set out how full income...

Over the next year or so, I will be publishing in this blog occasional essays that apply Serres' philosophy to current social, cultural and political debates about the planetary emergency. The first is entitled The Global Justice Report Through the Lens of Michel...

The Global Justice Report by the World Inequality Lab (WIL) published this week tries to overcome the shortcomings of mainstream approaches to the planetary crisis, including the economic degrowth proposed by many ecologists. The authors define their  basic objective...

My eBook will be available to buy for free for five days from 18th May – 22nd  May 2026. Although aimed at a wide readership, the eBook will be of particular interest to those researching transformative politics, environmental humanities, more-than-human jurisprudence...

Jeremy Lent’s most recent book will be as inspiring as his previous works The Web of Meaning and The Patterning Instinct. The extensive promotion material for the forthcoming book on Eco-Civilisation suggests that it will repeat an assumption about the evolution of...

I have had a few warm words from academic colleagues but particularly pleased with this feedback from a curious more general reader. I really enjoyed the book and think it hits that target of being accessible. I have no background in philosophy and thought it was...

There are so many sites with valuable information, networks and opportunities to share ideas. The Fifth Element is a programme run by the Club of Rome that seeks 'to ask better questions for the future of humanity' . They aim to provide a platform 'to support people...

Here are my present links to 'Resources, Networks and Alliances'. I am sure there are many more out there. Let me know and I will add. (peterj5319@gmail.com) Over a period of 14 years on a Sunday evening, Radio France broadcasted Serres' reflections on Le Sens de...

There are several interviews with Michel Serres on YouTube, but I would recommend this one recorded quite late in his life (and has English sub-titles). He refers to some key ideas including the North-West Passage (the need to embrace both science and the humanities),...

My book was inspired by the work of: Edward Benton-Banai (Indigenous activist) Claire Colebrook (cultural theorist) Dipesh Chakrabarty (post-colonial scholar) Phillippe Descola (anthropologist) Jean-Pierre Dupuy (philosopher) Peter Frankopan (writer and historian)...

As readers of this blog will know, I have for the last few years been researching Michel Serres’ response to the planetary emergency. I have published several specific articles in journals, but my first book offers a general introduction to Serres’ ecological thought....

Capitalism as the fundamental culprit is a pervasive figure when discussing the climate crisis (see Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis as one of thousands of examples). In a book just published, Capitalism: A Global History (2026), Sven Beckett says that capitalism is...

"The MOTH Ideas Hub disseminates promising and generative more-than-human ideas within and across disciplines, working as a catalyst for action and source of inspiration." "Through the Ideas Hub, the MOTH Program publishes interdisciplinary short-form,...

Wajã Xipai, an indigenous journalist, raised in the Yupá village, in the territory of Xipai, in the Amazonian state of Pará, offers a wonderful reflection on attending Cop30. He noted that everyone was running about excited, always in a hurry. He gets carried away...

We know from  the recent biography of Michel Serres that at a young age he was enthralled by Simone's Weil's Gravity and Grace, first published in French in 1947. Reading it again sparks significant overlaps with some of Serres' later thoughts on religion and...

A shocking podcast reveals the intimate link between pollution, the climate crisis, exploitation to the point of slavery, corruption, violence and our place in the middle of it all. A body was found on the outskirts of Istanbul amongst plastic waste inside a recycling...

One of Serres’ most provocative contentions is that the development of digital information processing will mean that we will have a new space to think. Memory, deductive reasoning, judgement, even imagination, will be externalised in computers, leaving us free to...

He wrote and gave interviews in French, and he avoided promotional branding. In the academic world, Serres did not fit into any niche and his transdisciplinary approach initially caused consternation. Paradoxically however, as time went on, he still became lumped...