Main Themes I’m Working on Now…
Lifting the Weight of Culture
Culture shapes us before we can have our say about it. Sometimes, within its rhythms and tempos, new modes of experience become possible—ways of sensing, relating, and moving through cultures whose weight has, for a moment, become a little less burdensome.
Eternal Recurrence
This 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
An exceptionally detailed and compelling investigation into the evolution of Greek philosophical thought out of myth.
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.
Practices of Time in the New Testament
Reclaiming ‘metanoia’ as a word badly in need of rejuvenation.
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
