Educated at University College, Dublin, University College, London, and the University of Warwick, John Mullarkey has taught philosophy for the last 16 years at the University of Sunderland, England (1994-2004), and the University of Dundee, Scotland (2004 to date). He has published Bergson and Philosophy (1999), Post-Continental Philosophy: An Outline (2006), Refractions of Reality: Philosophy and the Moving Image (2009), and edited, with Beth Lord, The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy (2009).
His work - inspired by Bergson, Deleuze, and Laruelle - seeks new ways of engaging with 'non-philosophy' in the belief that philosophy is a subject that gains its identity through continual challenge from outsider thought, such as in film, design, and animality (the three non-philosophies with which he is most acquainted).