Main Themes I’m Working on Now…
The Physics, Philosophy, and Religion of Time
Time is not an illusion. Time is not a figment of our experience. It arises out of the contingency of motion. Time is experience, and experience it time.
Eternal Recurrence
Nietzsche’s concept isn’t really that hard to get. Physics is starting to catch up with it.
The second installment of my series of Reading Zarathustra. This focuses on the problem of teaching, discipleship, truth telling, and companionship in ‘The Speeches of Zarathustra’ from Book I.
The first in a commentary series on Thus Spoke Zarathustra. This post covers Zarathustra’s Prologue.
A collection of works on the physics, religion, philosophy, and history of how we’ve composed time
One of the best explanations of Bergson’s thought. Lapoujade connects duration with motion and in the process exposes why Bergson’s thought is more than conceptual philosophy. It is the transformation of how we experience ourselves and the world.
Breton set in motion the philosophical and theological reconsideration of Paul (which was already underway in more scholarly investigations into ‘the historical Paul’). This book is crucial to the reconsideration of Paul that found in his letters the power to suspend the weight of culture to find ‘new horizons’ of salvational experience.
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.
Practices of Time in the New Testament
The Grand Narrative
How to see common things as compositions of time
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.
Chronology
A running list of posts
Kairos and Continuity
Time Untethered from Motion
The first in a series of meditations coming to terms with Hans Blumenberg’s The Genesis of the Copernican World. This is an important work for anyone interested in time as practice.