Dear all, We are happy to invite you to a lecture that is part of the new event series THINKING NATURE [1]that will take place at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, 2025-2026 (more information below), organised by Eva-Maria Aigner and Ralf Gisinger. The first lecture will take place on Friday, June 6, 6-8pm_,_ online and in a hybrid setting, Room 3A (NIG): Philippe Lynes (Durham University): "Anecological Dwelling: Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot" Abstract: In the second year of his _The Thing _seminar (1976), Jacques Derrida undertakes a comparative analysis of Martin Heidegger's "Building, Dwelling, Thinking" with the literary work of Maurice Blanchot. For Derrida, if Heidegger's bridge signals a gathering of two shores, a gathering wherein mortals may learn to properly dwell in saving the earth, the bridge for Blanchot would hint at an infinite distancing of the two shores, a devastation that knows no salvation. This interplay of the economical and the aneconomical, _the ecological and the anecological_ would organize all of Derrida's readings of Heidegger and Blanchot almost twenty years later in the _Secret et témoignage _seminars. In unfolding these readings, we will ask what it might mean, in reconsidering the relations and non-relations between thinking and nature, to dwell _anecologically? _Might the anecological open onto a new thinking that leaves nature to its secrecy _without us?_ Bio: Philippe Lynes' research situates itself at the intersections of the environmental humanities, continental philosophy and ecocriticism. He has held an Addison Wheeler Fellowship with the Institute of Advanced Study and the Department of English Studies at Durham University. He was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, and held the Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair in Environmental Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Lynes is the author of the two-volume _Dearth: Deconstruction after Speculative Realism_, forthcoming with Northwestern University Press in 2025 and 2026, and _Futures of Life Death on Earth: Derrida's General Ecology_ (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018). He is co-editor (with Matthias Fritsch and David Wood) of _Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy_, (Fordham University Press, 2018) and (with Timothy Clark) of the _Oxford Literary Review_ special issue "What Might Eco-Deconstruction Be?" (2023) Lynes is also a translator and editor of French philosophy and literature, notably of the work of Jacques Derrida and Maurice Blanchot. He is associate editor of the journal _Derrida Today_, and one of the lead editors of Blanchot's literary estate. He is currently working on two books, _Ecologies of Emptiness_, on the Kyoto School, and an introductory book on _The_ _Environmental Posthumanities_. There will be two short responses to the lecture by Eva-Maria Aigner and Noemi Call (both University of Vienna). We will send out the zoom-link closer to the lecture. Here you find more information about the event series: THINKING NATURE [1] University of Vienna, 2025-2026 Poststructuralism has long been accused of a general indifference to questions of materiality and natural philosophy. From this perspective, and in light of the urgent philosophical problem of the looming climate crisis, poststructuralist theory does not seem ideally suited to contribute to the question of nature. In recent years, however, numerous authors have shown how poststructuralist theories can be made fruitful in ecology, geo-philosophy or a philosophy of nature. The lecture series, organised and curated by Eva-Maria Aigner and Ralf Gisinger (Research Group "Poststructuralism, Gender Theory, Psychoanalysis"), brings together some of the most intriguing contemporary theorists in this field who will be invited to the Department of Philosophy Vienna to give their philosophical perspectives on "Thinking Nature" in the Anthropocene. Events 2025 Philippe Lynes (Durham University) _June 6_, 18:00-20:00, online. Live-Streaming and Responses in Room 3A (NIG) Didier Debaise (Université Libre Bruxelles) _October 16_, Keynote, 18:30 (Lecture Room 3A (NIG), on-site/hybrid) _October 17_, Workshop, 10:00-16:00 (Lecture Room 3A (NIG), on-site/hybrid) Claire Colebrook (Penn State University) _November 21_, 10:00-12:00, online. Live-Streaming and Responses in Room 3A (NIG) Organised by Ralf Gisinger and Eva-Maria Aigner Funded by the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy Research Group "Poststructuralism, Gender Theory, Psychoanalysis" Registration and Information: ralf.gisinger(a)univie.ac.at eva-maria.aigner(a)univie.ac.at poststrukturalismus.univie.ac.at [2] Links: ------ [1] https://poststrukturalismus.univie.ac.at/veranstaltungen/thinking-nature-ev… [2] https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpoststru…