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.>

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).

Product details

• Authors: Rick Dolphijn, Rick (Assistant Professor Department of Dolphijn
• Assisted by: Rick Dolphijn (Editor), Rick (Assistant Professor Department of Media and Culture Studies Dolphijn (Editor), Dolphijn Rick (Editor), Joanna Hodge (Editor), David Webb (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781350060692
• ISBN: 978-1-350-06069-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Michel Serres and Material Fut; Michel Serres and Material Fut; Michel Serres and Material Futures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Philosophy of Science, Applied ecology, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Philosophy: aesthetics