Featured Essays
Energy and Epiphany in the Later Works of Michel Serres
A brief reflection on Michel Serres’ understanding of our ongoing power to expand our understanding and harnessing of energy to overcome fate and destiny. He re-reads the experience of religion in this context.
Inventing Behavior After the Neolithic: Michel Serres and the Moral Problem of Auto-Evolution
This essay introduces Michel Serres’ late philosophy by emphasizing its moral core rather than its metaphysics. Drawing on The Incandescent and le Grand Récit, it explores auto-evolution, violence, and the challenge of inventing moral orientation after the Neolithic age.
Fate, Computation and the End of Christian Time
This brief essay traces how Enlightenment calculation reshaped humanity’s experience of time, fate, and foresight—from biblical chronology to geological deep time and modern predictive control. Rather than condemning the Enlightenment, it argues for renewing its legacy by learning how to live responsibly within the futures we now help to compute.
Michel Serres: The Synthetic Experience of Religion
This essay offers an accessible introduction to Michel Serres’s philosophy through his final book Religion. It explains how concepts like clinamen, emptiness, and navigation help us understand responsibility, violence, and meaning in modern life.
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.
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.
Mark 3:31-35: Who Is, Here Is
This essay reads Mark 3:31–35 as a decisive reconfiguration of belonging. Kinship is no longer anchored in blood, tradition, or continuity, but in presence and action—who is here, and what is done. Time is no longer something one inherits; it is something one inhabits. Ethical identity emerges not from origin, but from participation in a living moment.
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