Category Archive: Serres

Biogea
05 Jun

New Serres in English: Biogea from Univocal

“Always the same. This history could make a rock cry from boredom and death. How sad that history seems when faced with the crystalline and floral diversity of things; how…
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at 8:54 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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20 Mar

Earth

In the duplicity of beauty there is the strange trope of a presence which is the shadow of itself, of a being which, anachronously, lurks in its own trace. (Levinas,…
Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 11:07 am By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
14 Nov

Science and Parasites: Michel Serres and the Unification of Human and Natural Sciences

Theorem: the history of science obeys the law of diminishing returns. The first attack on the narcissism of science… Second: if we examine the set made of the problem and…
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 12:05 am By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
04 Nov

Translation: Michel Serres and the Mathematization of Empiricism

The following is a translation of Michel Serres’s essay “Mathematization of Empiricism.” from Hermes II: L’Interférence. Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1972. 195-200. Original translation by Taylor Adkins 11/03/07. The law…
Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 4:24 pm By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
19 Oct

Warning, Hive Meltdown Imminent: Serres, Negarestani and Deleuze on Noise, Pestilence and Darkness

Four Birds Mixed media on paper (Catheryn Austen) Openness only comes in the imperceptible recesses of infection: A faceless love. (Reza Negarestani) Michel Serres never fails to remind us of…
Friday, October 19, 2007 at 5:13 pm By Joseph Weissman 9 Replies
16 Oct

Machines, Morphogenesis and Complexity

Cellular automata The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the…
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 8:04 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
15 Oct

Nomads: Space, Solitude, Science

Royal science is inseparable from a “hylomorphic” model implying both a form that organizes matter, and a matter prepared for the form; it has often been shown that this schema…
Monday, October 15, 2007 at 4:32 am By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
03 Oct

French Translations: Works in Progress

My last six posts have all been translations; they range from philosophy of science to paradigms for approaching and studying Nietzsche. I plan to continue working on translating Boudot’s work…
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 5:18 pm By Taylor Adkins 22 Replies
22 Aug

Nietzsche’s Historical Chemistry and the International Scene

“Departure requires a rending that rips a part of the body from the part that still adheres to the shore where it was born, to the neighborhood of its kinfolk,…
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 8:16 am By Taylor Adkins Leave a Reply
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