One of the most sophisticated thinkers of time. Science hasn’t caught up yet.
Michel Serres at his most political. This 1990 book is a defining work in the modern understanding of the climate crisis. I've written a long essay inspired by the depth and breadth of Serres vision.
A canonical book in the history of 'posthumanism'. It is much more than that. The Parasite descends through Western Metaphysics and Ontology to arrive at a way of thinking that is thoroughly relational. Here we find his early articulation of quasi-objects and percolating time. My 'review' is not so much a review as an essay on how to use 'the parasite' as an operational concept that expands our capacity to become quasi-subjects.
Michel Serres makes Lucretius our contemporary. Published just before Le Parasite, Le Naissance de la physique was a key moment in the history of chaos theory and the ability to see order emerging from disorder -- a reversal of the Enlightenment's formula. Serres finds in Lucretius' De rerum natura a pre-Modern text that offers a more relevant way of thinking about order and disorder free of eternal natural laws.
When did the earth begin is a strange question. To trace its answer is to find oneself deeply entangled into the contingency of motions that make up the Grand Narrative of the cosmos.
An excerpt from my essay on Michel Serres’ The Parasite. Words are not things. They are contingencies of motion with a very long history of working out the details.
