Jean-Paul Martinon

Jean-Paul Martinon is a writer based in London. He was born in Chicago, grew up in Paris and has lived in London for over 25 years. He was the co-founder and curator of Rear Window (www.rear-window.org.uk) an independent arts trust that staged a series of exhibitions and conferences in temporary sites across London. He is currently Reader in Visual Cultures and Philosophy at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has written monographs on a Victorian workhouse (Swelling Grounds, Rear Window, 1995), the idea of the future in the work of Derrida, Malabou and Nancy (On Futurity, Palgrave, 2007), the temporal dimension of masculinity (The End of Man, Punctum, 2013), and the concept of peace after the Rwandan genocide (After “Rwanda,” Rodopi, 2013). He is also the editor of The Curatorial: A Philosophy of Curating (Bloomsbury, 2013). www.jeanpaulmartinon.net