︎ John Ó Maoilearca

John Ó Maoilearca is  Emeritus Professor at Kingston University, London, where he taught for 11 years, having previously taught at Dundee University and the University of Sunderland. His research tackles ideas in the fields of Continental Philosophy (Bergson, Deleuze, Henry, Laruelle, Badiou), metaphysics (especially of time and identity), film philosophy, and metaphilosophy. Ó Maoilearca has published twelve books, including (as author), Bergson and Philosophy (Edinburgh 1999), Post-Continental Philosophy (Continuum 2006), Refractions of Reality: Philosophy and the Moving Image (Palgrave 2010), and All Thoughts Are Equal: Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy (Minnesota 2015). His most recent work, Vestiges of a Philosophy: Matter, the Meta-Spiritual, and the Forgotten Bergson (Oxford UP 2023/27) examines the convergence of ideas between philosopher Henri Bergson and his sister, the occultist Mina Bergson, in order to tackle themes in contemporary materialist philosophy, spiritualism, and memory studies. Ó Maoilearca is currently researching practice-based forms of non-standard philosophy involving restoration and temporal repair.