Michel Serres

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...

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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...