Featured Essays

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The more we have sought to bring nature’s processes under our control, the more we live within a lack of control.

The Enlightenment pushed God and gods to the sidelines, but as our time continues to evolve, are we letting them back in?

Metanoia and the Experience of Time: Beyond Repentance and the Practice of Change in Mark’s Gospel

This brief essay revisits metanoia in Mark’s Gospel as a radical change in our experience of time. This poetic reflection reframes one of Jesus’ first words — often mistranslated as ‘repent’ — as an invitation to loosen expectation and inhabit a time of possibilities.

Greg Laugero 1/5/26 Greg Laugero 1/5/26

Practice: Deep Dives

Deep dives are not about finishing books—they are about letting difficult ideas change how you experience time. This practice explores how sustained engagement with science, history, and philosophy can stretch certainty and widen the horizon of experience.

Greg Laugero 12/17/25 Greg Laugero 12/17/25

Saving the Phenomenon: Panchrone, Assembly Theory and Thinking in Time

A brief exploration of how theoretical physicists such as Lee Smolin and Sara Imari Walker are not only rethinking time but changing our capacity for experience.

Greg Laugero 9/16/24 Greg Laugero 9/16/24

Time Reborn - Lee Smolin

Lee Smolin argues that physics should no longer treats time as an experiential illusion. It is fundamental to the universe because everything is relational and evolving.

Greg Laugero 9/16/24 Greg Laugero 9/16/24

Time Out of Joint

How do we compose time?

Greg Laugero 9/16/24 Greg Laugero 9/16/24

At the Edge of le Grand Récit

An essay exploring Michel Serres’s engagement with Le Grand Récit and what narrative uncertainty means for ethical life in a world of multiplicity and contingent connection.

Greg Laugero 9/16/24 Greg Laugero 9/16/24

Galileo’s Pulse

Greg Laugero 1/23/24 Greg Laugero 1/23/24

Birth of Physics - Michel Serres

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.

Greg Laugero 8/31/23 Greg Laugero 8/31/23

A Tenth of a Second - Jimena Canales

Modernity didn’t just apply technologies of measuring time at more minute levels. Modernity and time measurement are bound together much more intimately.

Greg Laugero 8/20/23 Greg Laugero 8/20/23

The Genesis of the Copernican World - Hans Blumenberg

Copernicus did not kick humanity out of the center of the universe. He made the Earth a star and also tried to restore the harmonious relationship between God’s creation and humanity. The consequences for the configuration of time are underappreciated. This book corrects that.

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