Nico Jenkins

Nico Jenkins (b. 1970) is a theorist and writer whose work focuses on finitude and uncertainty, using philosophical traditions from both classical Buddhism and contemporary continental thinking to explore the gaps and spaces in our knowable world(s).

Jenkins teaches an intensive summer seminar at the European Graduate School in Saas-fee, Switzerland “On Labor and Craft,” part of the EGS Cello Project with Robert Young and Chris Fynsk, and is Assistant Professor of Ethics and Philosophy at Husson University in the United States. In addition, he lectures on art, ecology and ethics at the Maine College of Art in portland, Maine.

Before turning to writing and philosophy, as a photographer, Jenkins documented the sometimes violent, sometimes mundane changes that occurred in the wake of the revolutions in Eastern Europe in the 1990’s. His more recent work, entitled All The Lonely Places, chronicles the forgotten spaces of the contemporary urban and semi-urban landscape. His photographs explore and celebrate the ignored and neglected environments which exist just beyond the periphery of society’s gaze.