Michel Serres and the Crises of the Contemporary
Michel Serres captures the urgencies of our time; from the digital revolution to the ecological crisis to the future of the university, the crises that code the world today are addressed in an accessible, affirmative and remarkably original analysis in his thought.

This volume is the first to engage with the philosophy of Michel Serres, not by writing 'about' it, but by writing 'with' it. This is done by expanding upon the urgent themes that Serres works on; by furthering his materialism, his emphasis on communication and information, his focus on the senses, and the role of mathematics in thought. His famous concepts, such as the parasite, 'amis de viellesse', and the algorithm are applied in 21st century situations. With contributions from an international and interdisciplinary team of authors, these writings tackle the crises of today and affirm the contemporary relevance of Serres' philosophy.

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Michel Serres and the Crises of the Contemporary
Michel Serres captures the urgencies of our time; from the digital revolution to the ecological crisis to the future of the university, the crises that code the world today are addressed in an accessible, affirmative and remarkably original analysis in his thought.

This volume is the first to engage with the philosophy of Michel Serres, not by writing 'about' it, but by writing 'with' it. This is done by expanding upon the urgent themes that Serres works on; by furthering his materialism, his emphasis on communication and information, his focus on the senses, and the role of mathematics in thought. His famous concepts, such as the parasite, 'amis de viellesse', and the algorithm are applied in 21st century situations. With contributions from an international and interdisciplinary team of authors, these writings tackle the crises of today and affirm the contemporary relevance of Serres' philosophy.

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Michel Serres and the Crises of the Contemporary

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Michel Serres captures the urgencies of our time; from the digital revolution to the ecological crisis to the future of the university, the crises that code the world today are addressed in an accessible, affirmative and remarkably original analysis in his thought.

This volume is the first to engage with the philosophy of Michel Serres, not by writing 'about' it, but by writing 'with' it. This is done by expanding upon the urgent themes that Serres works on; by furthering his materialism, his emphasis on communication and information, his focus on the senses, and the role of mathematics in thought. His famous concepts, such as the parasite, 'amis de viellesse', and the algorithm are applied in 21st century situations. With contributions from an international and interdisciplinary team of authors, these writings tackle the crises of today and affirm the contemporary relevance of Serres' philosophy.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350060692
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 11/01/2018
Series: Michel Serres and Material Futures
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Rick Dolphijn is Associate Professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands; an Honorary Professor at Hong Kong University (2017-2023), Hong Kong; and a Visiting Professor at the University of Barcelona (2019-2020), Spain. He is author of Foodscapes: towards a Deleuzian Ethics of Consumption (2004), New Materialism: Interviews and Cartographies (with Iris van der Tuin) (2012) and edited (with Rosi Braidotti) This Deleuzian Century: Art, Activism, Life (2014) and Philosophy After Nature (2017). His most recent book is Michel Serres and the Crises of the Contemporary (Bloomsbury 2018).

Joanna Hodge is Professor of Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Professor Hodge is the author of Derrida and Time (2010) and Heidegger and Ethics (1995).

David Webb is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Staffordshire University, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Procedural Thinking by Rick Dolphijn, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Chapter 1. The Virtue of Sensibility - David Webb, Staffordshire University, UK
Chapter 2. Cosmoliteracy and Anthropography, Vera Bühlmann, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Chapter 3. The Mathematical Anamneses - Lucie Kim-Chi Mercier, Kingston University London, UK)
Chapter 4. Kill is kiss, words are rats - Eugenie Brinkema, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Chapter 5. The Exogenesis of Light - Matteo Pasquinelli, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany
Chapter 6. Scintillant @ the University of Angelic Invention, Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chapter 7. The World, the Mat(t)er of Thought, Rick Dolphijn, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Chapter 8. The Grace of Extinction, Patricia McCormack, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Chapter 9. A New Culture that Suits the World, Interview with Michel Serres by Janina Pigaht, Documentary Filmmaker and Rick Dolphijn, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, translated by Joeri Visser, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Index

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