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Where is Rousseau's state of nature? On the summit of Mont Blanc massif where Sasquatch may be observed in all their natural glory.

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Since Beckett never gave an explanatory interview and none of his major works are explanatory prose, this video misses the point.

I love this video. I am currently directing a version of Krap's last tape for my theatre studies and I also noticed very strongly the very first sentence: ...in the future. It brought me to Crhistmas tale, so Krapp would be a sort of Mr Scrooge who has the chance, the CHANCE, to amend his future. The Krapp we see is a sort of the ghost of himself, a ghost from the furure, and just like Mr Scrooge, he show what can be. I feel a certain hope in the play, a bitter reality too, but still a certain hope for his quest towards happiness. Beckett said, when asked what if Krapp had married, that he would likely be the same, probably suffering a Mrs Krapp at his back. However, the loop of that precise moment in the past could suggest a flashback to the present and then, maybe, an opportunity for redemption. Amazing, truly.

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this is very good -the statement by St. Augustine was very helpful,/ as was the breathing element- very informative and many implications- very much in the last half video

Underrated philosopher

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wow what a world ive stumbled into. randomly saw "detachment" at my school library and it caught my eye. thank you for this talk, your use of illustrative examples is fitting and helpful

I think I will have to watch this lecture about 5 times before I can understand :D

Parasitism reminds me of Whitehead's notion of Life as Robbery and Destruction

Thanks for the canonization of Michel Serres. Excellent presentation and conversationn

fantastic lecture! really elucidates some key ideas of Serres' brilliantly.

shows that derrida was psychotic - absolute otherness as a tenet undermines the credibility of his entire system....

Дякую Вам за Ваш виступ і за підтримку України. Слава ЗСУ. Героям Слава. Одна примітка немає українського переводу це жаль а російською є.

Watkin goes to my nerves with his copied stylized stuttering. So many wannabe thinkers try exactly that to give themselves a profile for little to say.

in prepping to perform this play for the 2nd time in 40 years i found this placing of Krapp as an example of the end of the fading tape of modernism deeply illuminating. loved use of 3 monologues. brava!

some wrong timeline at 48m04s

Hi Mr. Watkin. Thank you for uploading this to KZbin! I hope you don't mind if I express two, or maybe three, questions regarding this video and reading on Derrida. Hopefully they're not too ridiculous. -How is it, having in mind that we should consider both individuals and cases in their absolute singularity, that Derrida's position isn't relativistic? If we should not follow a set of rules ("law") to deliberate on every case, how can we not say that "justice" is relative only to the particular matter at hand? This is perhaps linked to my next question, so perhaps both can be read as one and also answered in the same way. -Around 23:00, it's said that there is some sort of "ethical injunction" to make a decision and not simply show indifference. My question is: where does this ethical injunction come from? And also, there is always "violence", if I understood correctly, regardless of whether we choose or we don't choose, and this leads me to a double issue: on the one hand, if there will be "violence" no matter what we do, does Derrida propose that we choose the less "violent" option as some sort of utilitarian principle? And -this being related, it seems to me, to the past two questions- why should we consider "violence" to be undesirable? [I'm sorry if this is too simplistic in an understanding of Derrida's thought regarding contrapositions -I have literally just begun to study him for the last two months or so-, but wouldn't this be a polarity between, say, peacefulness-violence in which we choose to consider peacefulness (or whatever we may think to be on the other extreme) as the hierarchical notion?]

It matters very little to unbelievers what societal good "Evangelicals" might do, while such unbelievers are (invariably) hostile to the central message of Good News of salvation in Jesus Christ according to the Bible, and of course also hostile to the Christian ethic that stands in antithesis to unbelieving "morality".

this is absolutely amazing, online classes introduced us to possibilities that connects people even more. I live in Brazil and I study theater at university and I’m able to witness this exceptional class over a year later it was posted on youtube. Thank you for your work!

Thanks for recording this, Chris.

I personally see the state of nature as man’s relationship with production.

fire crackling is the only thing i can focus with for some reason, it feels warm and it sint too distracting but then again its background noise

Stumbled on your lecture on developing a biblical critical theory and fell into the rabbit hole. Really appreciate your work. Keep it up!

Don't mean to be rude, but is there a soft-pedal going on here?

It seems the gender i.e. God is male in this discussion? The bible does alienate other genders.

Thank you so much for uploading this conversation to KZbin. I am a Mexican student of philosophy of culture. I am working on my thesis, almost finished, on the question of water. My bases were The Natural Contract, Thumbelina and the notion of symbiosis in Serres. I have focused on a local case, and also of global concern, about the exploitation of water in my city. His book "Figures of Thought" on Michel Serres has been of great help to me. Thank you very much Dr. Christopher Watkin.

where do you guys get this new agey fog music...totally annoying and distracting...can't hear what you're saying... defeats your purpose

I love this including all the tropical bird sounds. Would you consider putting music or something different for visual for the breaks to clearly define them?

Having just gone into lockdown this has been perfect for trying to stay productive at home and keep plugging away at the thesis! I love the variety on your channel - a 4-hour fire-side chat on the social contract is the crossover in channel content I'm looking forward to 😛

The Lord is the law that Sheppards a flock to good lives, and God is Good; a teaching tool and metaphor for Good. The bible says so 20-times; it's only medieval religions that profited by painting the storyteller's God as a Deity. They insisted they were essential because God was a Diety. You are struggling with faith-based teaching in storytelling. There was sound science behind the work of the Bible's 300+ scholarly authors.

So many vagaries; too many to know where to be start. Perhaps at Contract and a Social Contract (the absence of social problems) - two different things (citation: csq1.org/SCP) . The one is the garnering of rights and the other is the assurance of rights. Because you are hip-deep in theory upon theory, you have lost any notion of context and to go to solid ground now. Back your theory with evidence because it's entirely "grasping" with nothing truthful without it ... To be helpful, keep your videos short 5 to 10 mins - restricting discussion topics to a very narrow band. And for God sakes, prove what you conclude to be true is true.

The pandemic is a 100-year storm; that is only an issue because we haven't trained our children in responsible civics nor island isolation protocols; there was no vaccine for Spanish Flu and it didn't take this long to eradicate. We haven't also trained our children in responsible science and evidence-based training - versus faith-based and theory-based teaching. God - is Good; systemic empathy - and a metaphor and teaching tool for good; and for embedding strong values of essential good in our young people. This is training essential in the bible's purpose of building sustainable successful societies reliably - is it not? In econometric science, strong social contract nations are quantifiably proven to build strong economies (csq1.org/SCP) - where Wealth Theory is econometrically proven to collapse nations reliably. Stop teaching Christians that Social Contract (the absence of Social Problems) is not Christian, because - a) its irresponsible and you are very wrong - and obviously so in evidence-based science, and b) why embarrass yourself to tell contemporary Christians that a 15th-century church edict on what is Heresy - applies today? Read "The Book" - the Global Leadership Book of Knowledge - and stop with the theory nonsense, there is no need to not make use of science today.

Great discussion, and I really appreciate the contributions from Figures of Thought! One item of Serres' work that's always baffled me is the move from Hermes to Angels between his early works on information theory and later, La Legende des Anges. The pluralization of the Hermes figure into an angelic hierarchy seems, at least on the surface, similar to the charactistic "opposition through generalization" move. But then it would be a little odd for him to add complexity to the simplicity of one of his own figures. Hermes is obviously a substantially important figure for Serres. Did he have a revelation about certain limits posed by this figure?

Thanks SO VERY MUCH for this.

Thnks for sharing. So relaxing

So like am I the only non-teacher here?

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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

A nice perspective on literature and our experience, our reality. You have a thoughtful voice and your delivery is calm and path. Thank you.

i can just stare at that fireplace all day

hey! thanks for this. i love it

There is a google extension you can use that mutes a tab so if you want to have a breakout room running and not here it you can use that.

Thanks Christopher. I haven't tried this yet but I'm wondering if they click on a Docs document it will open in a new tab independent of the meet session, right? So they should open docs before clicking on Meet link?

Many thanks for sharing your work. Rich and clear insight on Beckett is not easy to reach, I think, but your lecture definitely does it!

Excellent analysis of the current historical moment! I agree with your observation about the crisis of liberty. In my view, archaic forms of freedom are instrumentalized for big profits and authoritarian militarized social control. Deintellectualized public discourse, low-quality punitive education, and hatred-driven mass-media suppress people's natural curiosity, love, and hope, impeding the evolution of human freedom. We need an innovative liberating theory of law and peaceful politics to overcome the crisis.

This is a very interesting introduction, I'll try to listen to the rest

Hi. When students clicked the breakout room link, are they able to join the room automatically? Or does the tutor have to admit them one by one?