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IN 1980 after spending 6 months in Paris attending Deleuze and Foucault’s seminars, and interviewing Serres and Lyotard, I returned to Sydney and gave a paper synthesising my impressions. It was published in THE FOREIGN BODIES PAPERS, 1981. The title … Lire la suite →

This is an interview I conducted with Michel Serres in his home in Paris in 1980. It was published in ON THE BEACH, No. 6 Spring 1984 and 7/8 Summer-Autumn 1985, and was translated by Ross Gibson.

Initialement publié sur Christopher Watkin :
I am pleased and honoured to have recently signed a contract on a critical introduction to Michel Serres for an Anglophone readership. The backstory to Michel Serres: A Critical Introduction is the impression I have…

David Berry has published an interesting post on Bruno Latour’s seemingly reductionist notion of the digital. I think that in his remarks at the Plenary Lecture for the Digital Humanities Latour may have partially regressed to his older ANT thought, … Lire la suite →

Very interesting article by David Berry On Latour’s Notion of the Digital. I cannot resist excerpting a lengthy footnote on the frustrating experience of using the AIME platform: « [1] Accepting the well-designed look of the website that contains the AIME … Lire la suite →

Lorsque je veux parler de Michel Onfray je dois avouer que suis confronté avec un blocage mental que j’ai du mal à cerner. C’est peut-être que je suis encore trop fasciné par le monde du concept « surconceptuel ». Je lis Badiou … Lire la suite →

The scholar is a figure of someone who is passionate about a particular subject, and who may even able to make their living out of their passion if they manage to get a university job that permits research. The academic … Lire la suite →

In the various discussions about the disadvantages of academic philosophy that I have linked to, I think that the shared premise is that a certain type of philosophy requires such specialised knowledge that only a select few will be motivated … Lire la suite →

The concept of « correlationism » no doubt has a rigorous definition in Meillassoux’s AFTER FINITUDE, unfortunately this definition makes it next to useless in describing recent and contemporary rival philosophies. The formal definition of the concept of correlationism requires supplementation by … Lire la suite →

Initialement publié sur The Horizon and The Fringe :
I wonder if the scholar has vanished and I do not think that is a good thing. I do not mean scholarship, but the class of people sufficient in means and time…