After Biodeconstruction in the Neganthropocene

Philippe Lynes is a Lecturer in Theory and Contemporary Literature in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. He held the 2017-2018 Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair in Environmental Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, and earned his PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Concordia University in Montréal, Québec. His research situates itself at the intersections of contemporary continental philosophy and the environmental humanities. Lynes is the author of Futures of Life Death on Earth: Derrida’s General Ecology (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018) and coeditor (with Matthias Fritsch and David Wood) of Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy (Fordham University Press, 2018). He is also a translator of French philosophy. His translation of and introduction to Jacques Derrida’s Advances was published in 2017, and Serge Margel’s The Tomb of the Artisan God in 2019, both with the University of Minnesota Press, and recently finished a translation of the first 1941 version of Maurice Blanchot’s Thomas l’obscur. He is currently finishing his second book Dearth: Eco-Deconstruction after Speculative Realism on Blanchot, Derrida, and Heidegger.