Staff Profile

Dr John Mullarkey

Location: Room 3.11, Level 3, Tower Extension
Tel: +44 (0)1382 384517
Email: John Mullarkey

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Research Interests

I would be very happy to supervise postgraduate research in any of the following areas:

• Continental Philosophy (especially Bergson, Deleuze, Badiou, Merleau-Ponty, Henry, Levinas, and Laruelle);
• Comparative Continental and Anglo-American Philosophy;
• Metaphilosophy;
• Philosophy of Time;
• Metaphysics and Naturalism;
• Philosophy of Film
• Philosophy of Diagrams

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Selected Publications

Authored Books:

• Post-Continental Philosophy: An Outline, Continuum Press, 2006 (US edition 2007)
• Bergson and Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, 1999 (Notre Dame University Press edition, 2000)

Editorships

• Henri Bergson: An Introduction to Metaphysics (Bergson Centennial Series), Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007.
• with Stephen Linstead (with contribution), Bergson Now, special issue of the Journal of British Society for Phenomenology, Volume 35, No.1 (January 2004)
• with Stephen Linstead (with contribution), 'Bergson and the Social Sciences', special issue of Culture and Organization, Volume 9, No. 3 (Sept 2003)
• with Keith Ansell Pearson (with contribution), Bergson: Key Writings, Continuum Press, London: 2002
• (with contribution) The New Bergson, Manchester University Press, Manchester: 1999

Recent Articles in Books

• ‘“The Very Life of Things”: Reversing Thought and Thinking Objects in Bergsonian Metaphysics', introduction to Henri Bergson: An Introduction to Metaphysics (Bergson Centennial Series), edited by John Mullarkey, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007
• ‘Fabulation, Synchresis and Consilience’, in Annales bergsoniennes III: Bergson et la science, edited by Frédéric Worms et al, Presses Universitaires de France, 2007
• 'Philosophie au naturel', in Becoming Human, edited by Paul Sheehan, Connecticut/London, Praeger, 2003, pp.55-66
• 'La naturalisation de la métaphysique', in Annales bergsoniennes I: Bergson dans le siècle, edited by Frédéric Worms, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2002, pp.309-327
• 'Deleuze and Materialism: One or Several Matters?', in A Deleuzian Century, edited by Ian Buchanan (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999), pp.59-83
• 'La Méprise de l'homonculus et l'image de la science: Deux interprétations de la Perception pure de Bergson', in Philippe Gallois and Gérard Forzy eds., Bergson et les neurosciences, Institute Synthélabo, 1997

Recent Articles in Journals

• Life, Movement and the Fabulation of the Event, in Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 24, no.6 (2007): pp.53-70.
• 'Reanimating the Auteur', edited with David Sorfa and David Martin-Jones, special issue of Film-Philosophy, Vol. 10, no.1 (2006).
• ‘Forget the Virtual’, in Continental Philosophy Review, 2005, vol. 37, pp.469-493
• 'Bergson's Genetics of Matter', in Pli, vol. 15 (2004), pp.125-43

Invited Papers

• Keynote Speaker at Bergson Centennial, at the Ecole Normale Superiéure, Paris, November 24, 2007.
• Conference paper at ‘Creative Evolution: Histories of Reception’, Tokyo, Kyoto, and Fukuoka, October 15-20, 2007
• Keynote speaker at ‘The Deleuze Event’ conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, September 8-9, 2007
• Seminar paper at Dept. of Geography, University of Durham, February 21, 2007.
• Seminar paper at Dept. of Philosophy, University of Warwick, February 20, 2007.
• Conference paper at SEP/FEP, University of Dundee, September 10, 2006.
• Conference paper on Badiou at Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, June 2006.
• Seminar paper on Badiou and Henry at Dept. of English, University of Edinburgh, February 2006
• Seminar Paper on Immanence at Department of Philosophy, University of Cardiff, UK, November 2005
• Paper of ‘Film and Philosophy’ at TIP3 conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 2005
• Paper on Deleuze at Re-Mapping Deleuze Conference, Staffordshire University/MMU, UK, September 2005
• Paper on Immanence a SEP, University of Reading, September, 2005
• Seminar Paper on ‘Badiou and Henry’ Department of Philosophy, Bergen University, Norway, April 2005
• Three papers at Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, USA, February 2005
• ‘Synchresis and Consilience’, at conference, ‘Bergson et les sciences’, 13-14 May 2004, University of Nice
• Fabulation, or the Reality Effect’, at British Society for Phenomenology Conference, St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, April 2-4, 2004
• ‘Beyond the Virtual’, at the Cultural Memory seminar series, School for Advanced Studies, Institute of Romance Studies, Senate House, London, 22 November, 2003
• ‘The Refraction of Reality’, at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Umbria, 24 July 2003
• ‘Refraction, Affect, and the Optics of Change’, at conference ‘Bergson and Contemporary Thought’, University of Warwick, 6 June, 2003
• ‘Bio-Aesthetics or Memory of the Senses?’ at conference ‘Life’s Re-Emergence: Philosophy, Culture, Politics’, Goldsmith’s College London, 23 May, 2003
• Seminar Paper at Institute of Romance Studies, Senate House, London, 22 November, 2003
• Seminar Paper at Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, 12 March 2002
• Seminar Paper at Department of Philosophy, University College, Dublin, 28 February 2002
• Seminar Paper at Department of Philosophy, Dundee University, May 2001
• Seminar Paper at Department of Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, 23 March 2000
• Seminar Paper at Department of Philosophy, University of Durham, 16 March 2000
• Seminar Paper at Department of Philosophy, University College, Cork, 23 February 2000
• ‘The Rule of Dichotomy: Bergson’s Genetics of Matter’, at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Umbria, 27 July 1999

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Professional Activities

• Co-Editor with Caroline Williams, Queen Mary College, University of London, on ‘Key Concepts in Philosophy’ series for Continuum Press: 11 volumes from 2005 to date.
• Co-editor with Prof. Keith Ansell Pearson, University of Warwick, on publications for Continuum Press (2002) and Palgrave-Macmillan (2007)
• Collaborator with Frederic Worms, Université de Lille III and ENS, Paris, on Annales bergsoniennes (Presses Universitaires de France), 1999 to date
• Visiting Lecturer at the international Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Umbria, 1999, 2001, 2003
• European Correspondent for Prof. Leonard Lawlor, University of Memphis at Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Umbria, 2003
• Collaborator with Prof. Leonard Lawlor, University of Memphis, for Session at Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), October 2002
• Editorial advisory board member for ‘Transversals’ book series (Continuum Press), 2001 to date
• Executive member and treasurer to the Society for European Philosophy, 1999 to date
• Executive member of La Société des Amis de Bergson (ENS, Paris) 2006 to date.
• Executive member of the Deleuzian Studies Network at Manchester Metropolitan University, 2006 to date
• Member of the Peer Review College of the AHRC, 2007 to date