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John Ó Maoilearca
John Ó Maoilearca is Professor in the Department of Critical and Historical Studies at Kingston
University, London. I have previously lectured in philosophy departments at the
University of Sunderland, England, and the University of Dundee, Scotland. I
have published eleven books, including (as author) Bergson and Philosophy (2000), Post-Continental
Philosophy: An Outline (2006), Philosophy
and the Moving Image: Refractions of Reality (2010), and All Thoughts Are Equal: Laruelle and
Nonhuman Philosophy (2015). I work in the areas of Continental Philosophy
(Bergson, Deleuze, Henry, Laruelle, Badiou), metaphysics (especially of time
and identity), and metaphilosophy. The latter has led me to explore non-standard
modes of thinking and philosophical expression, including the diagrammatic
thinking, animal representation, as well as film philosophy. Recently, I’ve
directed this interest towards François Laruelle’s project of non-philosophy. I
am currently working on ordinary modes of mysticism and (so-called) ‘mental’
time-travel.