Deconstruction and Twenty-First Century Thought, Part 1: The New Realisms
Just published: the first volume of a double special issue of Derrida Today, edited by Niki Young (University of Malta) and I – Deconstruction and Twenty-First Century Thought, Part 1: The New Realisms! Featuring articles by Maurizio Ferraris, Graham Harman, François Laruelle and Quentin Meillassoux. Here’s the link: https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/drt/19/2 And here’s the full TOC:Philippe Lynes…
Teaching in the Ruins (New Book Project)
Just finished a chapter for a new book project with my colleague Dominic Smith at the University of Dundee called Teaching in the Ruins. We’re settling on the exact subtitle, but it’ll be something along the lines of De-Limiting the University with Benjamin and Derrida. For my half of the book – two chapters called…
Jacques Derrida – La Chose printed, out May 29th!
A few photos sent over from Seuil! The notes you’re seeing are from the third year (Heidegger/Freud, 1977), for which Derrida seemingly alternated between the sessions from La Vie la mort that were taken up as “Spéculer sur Freud” in La Carte postale, and other sessions on Heidegger that have unfortunately been lost. It would…
Dearth vol 2: Art and Dwelling Published!
The Amnesiac to my Kid A; the Twilight to Starlight to my Dawn to Dusk, The Wall lp2 to my, uh, The Wall lp1. My first double ‘album’ is now complete, fulfilling a childhood dream. But come to think of it, it’s hard to say whether it’s more of a Mellon Collie double lp, or…
Ecologies of emptiness: Boehme’s nature
Making good progress on this new book, Ecologies of Emptiness: Cosmic Pessimism and the Kyoto School. I’ve become fascinated with the work of Jacob Boehme, who Nishida Kitarō occasionally invokes. Boehme’s work was also influential on many figures at play in Speculative Realism and Cosmic Pessimism, notably Schelling and Schopenhauer. I’ve been struck by how much…
Jacques Derrida, La Chose (Seuil, 2026) out May 29
Editing Jacques Derrida’s La Chose. Séminaire (1975-1977), suivi de La sixième séance de Donner le temps II was a huge honour. Had no idea when I first transcribed it at Irvine back in early 2018 that I’d ever get the chance to do this. Out May 29th with the Bibliothèque Derrida series at Éditions du…
Dearth: Deconstruction after Speculative realism, vol 2 printed, available may 15th!
What’s harder: writing a two-volume book or getting a two-year-old to pose for a photo? Dearth: Deconstruction after Speculative Realism, Volume 2: Art and Dwelling will be available wherever books are sold May 15th from Northwestern University Press. “Readers will be astonished by the richness of Dearth. Philippe Lynes’s two volumes, inspired by Derrida’s and…
deconstruction and 21st-Century thought: Double special issue of derrida today
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…
Interviewed for Oxford Literary Review Supplement
Timothy Clark (Durham University) recently interviewed me about the first volume of my new book, Dearth: Deconstruction after Speculative Realism.Read the full interview here: https://olrsupplement.com/2026/04/02/nothing-but-us/ The interview covers a wide range of topics in contemporary environmental philosophy and theory. It was thanks to Tim that I first came to Durham University in 2018 as a…
Welcome
Hello, and thanks for stopping by my new website! Here you’ll find information about my upcoming publications and talks, my current research in continental philosophy, ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, and other reflections on academia, parenting and life in North-East England.
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