With the excellent co-editorship of Niki Young (University of Malta), we sent off the second part of an upcoming double special issue of Derrida Today, forthcoming in June and October 2026. The first volume on The New Realisms will be available in print to all attendees of the Derrida Today conference at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. It’s got a massive lineup of some of my favourite thinkers; Maurizio Ferraris, Graham Harman, François Laruelle, Quentin Meillassoux, Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, Shajara Néehilan Bensusan and Ivan Callus. I translated the essays by Meillassoux (an extract from L’Inexistence divine on Hegel, Heidegger and Derrida), as well as Laruelle (a 2007 essay on Derrida found in his archives, for which he gave his blessing shortly before passing). Having the chance to work with people I’ve been reading for years is my absolute favourite thing about academic life. I’m sure the articles will prove controversial for some, but I know others will find them as exhilirating as I did.
Deconstruction and 21st Century Thought
Part 1: The New Realisms
Maurizio Ferraris: Derrida: Monumental or Documental?
Graham Harman: Identity and Play: Derrida contra Heidegger and Lacan
François Laruelle: Derrida, Mediator, or The Limits of a Textual Deconstruction
Quentin Meillassoux: Being and Nothingness
Part 2: Remembering What Is to Come
Catherine Malabou: Dezoning History, Unchaining Archives, Desymbolizing Finitude (Translated by Carolyn Shread)
Bernard Stiegler: On Past and Future Noetic Deconstructions of Objective Deconstruction (Translated by Daniel Ross)
Shajara NéeHilan Bensusan: Phenomenology, Grammatology, Mnemology: Spectral Realism in the Wake of Deconstruction
Ivan Callus ‘Today This Title Seems Strange’: The Ideality of the Literary Object in Contemporary Writing
Philippe Lynes 