Michel Serres and the Crises of the Contemporary
Michel Serres and the Crises of the Contemporary
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This collection is both timely and important. The essays gathered here deploy many of the concepts and modes of thinking that Michel Serres has developed through his prodigious body of work, to make sense of the conditions of crisis, economic, environmental and political, that we currently inhabit. They take their impetus from the living and loving sweep of Serres's work, as they range between nature, language, mathematics, knowledge, technology and the senses. Their manner of thinking with, rather than merely about Serres, means that they are able to move beyond the parched, penurious work of critique to the imagination of new ways of thinking, feeling and being.
This collection is both timely and important. The essays gathered here deploy many of the concepts and modes of thinking that Michel Serres has developed through his prodigious body of work, to make sense of the conditions of crisis, economic, environmental and political, that we currently inhabit. They take their impetus from the living and loving sweep of Serres's work, as they range between nature, language, mathematics, knowledge, technology and the senses. Their manner of thinking with, rather than merely about Serres, means that they are able to move beyond the parched, penurious work of critique to the imagination of new ways of thinking, feeling and being.
In a collection of 21st century applications for Michel Serres' social and theoretical modelling, Rick Dolphijn has brought together a range of thinkers exercising the dynamic priorities of Serres' thinking, providing us relational strategies and plausible analogues for our time. This collection of writings and interviews helps all of us into the conversations that Serres' vision makes possible.
This important book admirably seeks not only to understand Serres but to use his thought to challenge and re-frame some of today’s most pressing social and philosophical debates, from the body and materialism to ecology and the future of the university. Its compelling interventions leave the reader with an acute sense of the contemporary urgency of thinking both with and through Serres. Both scholars familiar with the breadth of Serres’s work and those new to the significance and relevance his timely thought will find much of interest and, more importantly, of use in these pages.
Rick Dolphijn is Associate Professor in Media Theory and Cultural Theory at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
This collection is both timely and important. The essays gathered here deploy many of the concepts and modes of thinking that Michel Serres has developed through his prodigious body of work, to make sense of the conditions of crisis, economic, environmental and political, that we currently inhabit. They take their impetus from the living and loving sweep of Serres's work, as they range between nature, language, mathematics, knowledge, technology and the senses. Their manner of thinking with, rather than merely about Serres, means that they are able to move beyond the parched, penurious work of critique to the imagination of new ways of thinking, feeling and being.
In a collection of 21st century applications for Michel Serres' social and theoretical modelling, Rick Dolphijn has brought together a range of thinkers exercising the dynamic priorities of Serres' thinking, providing us relational strategies and plausible analogues for our time. This collection of writings and interviews helps all of us into the conversations that Serres' vision makes possible.
This important book admirably seeks not only to understand Serres but to use his thought to challenge and re-frame some of today’s most pressing social and philosophical debates, from the body and materialism to ecology and the future of the university. Its compelling interventions leave the reader with an acute sense of the contemporary urgency of thinking both with and through Serres. Both scholars familiar with the breadth of Serres’s work and those new to the significance and relevance his timely thought will find much of interest and, more importantly, of use in these pages.
Rick Dolphijn is Associate Professor in Media Theory and Cultural Theory at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.