According to Michel Serres, ‘the body invents a thousand unexpected figures’; ‘it experiments not merely on nature, but also with concepts’, Isabelle Stengers adds. Resisting the reductionism of modern science and the way it informs how we think about technology, ecology, medicine, education and artificial intelligence, for example, Serres and Stengers provoke a plurality of knowledges by exploring ways to inhabit a noisy, fragile and dissensual yet common world. In face of its disenchantment, they pose the question how to re-enchant it.
- Date
- Thursday 29 Oct 2026, 10:00 - 17:00
- Type
- Workshop
- Spoken Language
- English
- Ticket information
Participation is free. Send an email to register: houterman@esphil.eur.nl
Our goal is to achieve greater recognition of the works of Serres and Stengers, and their relevance for understanding the tensions between scientific reasoning and the Anthropocene. More specifically, we seek to explore the mutual recognition between the philosophies of Serres and Stengers in regards to this and learn how this resonance can inspire a greater inclusivity of knowledges. To that end, we invite relevant speakers to share their practices, and experiment with the concepts of Serres and Stengers.
The workshop is guided by a set of central questions: how do the works of Serres and Stengers help us rethink the disenchantment of the world and to question the conditions under which re-enchantment becomes possible? And how may the thought of Serres and Stengers inspire new ways of living, thinking, and conducting science in the face of contemporary ecological and technological challenges?
Confirmed Speakers: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne), Marjolein Oele (Radboud University Nijmegen), Hub Zwart and Sjoerd van Tuinen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
