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Dr Aidan Tynan
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Teams and roles for Aidan Tynan
Overview
My work forms part of the School’s English Literature and Critical and Cultural Theory areas. I have taught extensively on undergraduate and postgraduate programs, offering modules ranging in focus from the American short story and contemporary Irish poetry to world literature and cultural representations of oil.
My research spans a number of fields in literary studies, critical theory and the qualitative social sciences, with a focus in recent years on major topics in ecocriticism and environmental humanities. I am also interested in the cultures of fascism and the contemporary far right. I have published five books, the latest being an interdisciplinary collection called Storied Deserts: Reimagining Global Arid Lands (Routledge, 2024), which showcases an emerging body of work, scholarly and creative, on desert places from around the world.
I am currently writing my third monograph, Ecofascist Cultures: The Far Right and the Environmental Imagination, an exploration of the intersections of far-right ideology and environmentalism in 20th and 21st century art and literature.
Publication
2025
- Tynan, A. 2025. The passion of abolition: Deleuze and Guattari and the affective politics of Fascism. In: Deleuze and Affect. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
2024
- Tynan, A. 2024. Clown politics: history, populism, and tragic farce. Textual Practice 38(8), pp. 1258-1276. (10.1080/0950236X.2023.2243894)
- Osuna, C. and Tynan, A. eds. 2024. Storied deserts: Reimagining global arid lands. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (10.4324/9781003397212)
2023
- Tynan, A. 2023. Sum deorc wyrd gathers: Dark ecology, Brexit ecocriticism, and the Far Right. In: Parham, J. ed. The Literature and Politics of the Environment., Vol. 76. Essays and Studies D.S. Brewer, pp. 89-108.
- Tynan, A. 2023. Topologies of Nihilism: Anthropocene imaginaries and the figure of the desert. In: Shekhawat, S., Alex, R. K. and Rangarajan, S. eds. Desertscapes in the Anthropocene: Global South Perspectives. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 13-26.
2022
- Tynan, A. 2022. Aporias of ecological thought. Theory, Culture and Society 39(5), pp. 3-21. (10.1177/02632764211039280)
- Tynan, A. 2022. The howl of the earth: on “the geology of morals,” nihilism, and the anthropocene. Angelaki 27(5), pp. 3-16. (10.1080/0969725X.2022.2110391)
2020
- Tynan, A. 2020. The desert in modern literature and philosophy: Wasteland aesthetics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
2018
- Tynan, A. 2018. Ballard, Smithson, and the biophilosophy of the crystal. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 22(4), pp. 398-411. (10.1080/14688417.2018.1535324)
2017
- Tynan, A., Milesi, L. and Muller, C. J. eds. 2017. Credo credit crisis: speculations on faith and money. Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics. Rowman and Littlefield.
- Tynan, A. and Muller, C. J. 2017. Introduction. In: Tynan, A., Milesi, L. and Muller, C. J. eds. Credo Credit Crisis: Speculations on Faith and Money. Rowman and Littlefield
- Tynan, A. 2017. Impotent signs: money, speculative subjectivity, and the ontological proof. In: Tynan, A., Milesi, L. and Muller, C. J. eds. Credo Credit Crisis: Speculations on Faith and Money. Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 211-238.
2016
- Tynan, A. 2016. Desert earth: Geophilosophy and the Anthropocene. Deleuze Studies 10(4), pp. 479-495. (10.3366/dls.2016.0240)
- Tynan, A. 2016. The apocalyptic unconscious: schizoanalysis as political theology. In: Shults, F. L. and Powell-Jones, L. eds. Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Religion. Schizoanalytic Applications London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 95-116.
2015
- Buchanan, I., Matts, T. and Tynan, A. 2015. Introduction: towards a schizoanalytic criticism. In: Buchanan, I., Matts, T. and Tynan, A. eds. Deleuze and the schizoanalysis of literature. Schizoanalytic Applications Bloomsbury
- Buchanan, I., Matts, T. and Tynan, A. eds. 2015. Deleuze and the schizoanalysis of literature. Schizoanalytic Applications. Bloomsbury.
2014
- Tynan, A. 2014. A season in hell: paradox and violence in the poetry of Padraic Fiacc. Irish University Review 44(2), pp. 341-356. (10.3366/iur.2014.0128)
- Tynan, A. 2014. Reading Anti-Oedipus: literature, schizophrenia, and universal history. In: Ardoin, P., Gontarski, S. and Mattison, L. eds. Understanding Deleuze, understanding modernism. Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism Bloomsbury
2013
- Tynan, A. and Matts, T. 2013. Earthwork and eco-clinic: notes on James Turrell's Roden Garden Project. Design Ecologies 2(2), pp. 188-211. (10.1386/des.2.2.188_1)
- Tynan, A. 2013. A history of capitalism. [Irish Left Review 1 (2) Autumn 2013]. Available at: http://www.irishleftreview.org/
2012
- Tynan, A. and Matts, T. 2012. The melancholy of extinction: Lars von Trier's Melancholia as an environmental film. M/C Journal 15(3), article number: 491.
- Tynan, A. 2012. Deleuze's literary clinic: criticism and the politics of symptoms. Plateaus: New Directions in Deleuze Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Matts, T. and Tynan, A. 2012. With the raising of the ground: catastrophism, geotrauma and cinema’s ecological niche. Design Ecologies 2(1), pp. 93-119. (10.1386/des.2.1.95_1)
- Matts, T. and Tynan, A. 2012. Geotrauma and the eco-clinic: nature, violence, and ideology. symploke 20(1-2), pp. 154-171.
- Tynan, A. 2012. Marx, Deleuze, and the axiomatics of capital. Revista Pensamiento Politico 3, pp. 79-73.
2011
- Tynan, A. 2011. Deleuze, critique, and the problem of judgement. Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 1(2), pp. 51-64.
- Tynan, A. 2011. The literary clinic: Deleuze, criticism, and the politics of symptoms. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2009
- Tynan, A. 2009. The Marx of Anti-Oedipus. Deleuze Studies 3(Suppl), pp. 28-52.
Artefacts
- Tynan, A. 2013. A history of capitalism. [Irish Left Review 1 (2) Autumn 2013]. Available at: http://www.irishleftreview.org/
Articles
- Tynan, A. 2024. Clown politics: history, populism, and tragic farce. Textual Practice 38(8), pp. 1258-1276. (10.1080/0950236X.2023.2243894)
- Tynan, A. 2022. Aporias of ecological thought. Theory, Culture and Society 39(5), pp. 3-21. (10.1177/02632764211039280)
- Tynan, A. 2022. The howl of the earth: on “the geology of morals,” nihilism, and the anthropocene. Angelaki 27(5), pp. 3-16. (10.1080/0969725X.2022.2110391)
- Tynan, A. 2018. Ballard, Smithson, and the biophilosophy of the crystal. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 22(4), pp. 398-411. (10.1080/14688417.2018.1535324)
- Tynan, A. 2016. Desert earth: Geophilosophy and the Anthropocene. Deleuze Studies 10(4), pp. 479-495. (10.3366/dls.2016.0240)
- Tynan, A. 2014. A season in hell: paradox and violence in the poetry of Padraic Fiacc. Irish University Review 44(2), pp. 341-356. (10.3366/iur.2014.0128)
- Tynan, A. and Matts, T. 2013. Earthwork and eco-clinic: notes on James Turrell's Roden Garden Project. Design Ecologies 2(2), pp. 188-211. (10.1386/des.2.2.188_1)
- Tynan, A. and Matts, T. 2012. The melancholy of extinction: Lars von Trier's Melancholia as an environmental film. M/C Journal 15(3), article number: 491.
- Matts, T. and Tynan, A. 2012. With the raising of the ground: catastrophism, geotrauma and cinema’s ecological niche. Design Ecologies 2(1), pp. 93-119. (10.1386/des.2.1.95_1)
- Matts, T. and Tynan, A. 2012. Geotrauma and the eco-clinic: nature, violence, and ideology. symploke 20(1-2), pp. 154-171.
- Tynan, A. 2012. Marx, Deleuze, and the axiomatics of capital. Revista Pensamiento Politico 3, pp. 79-73.
- Tynan, A. 2011. Deleuze, critique, and the problem of judgement. Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 1(2), pp. 51-64.
- Tynan, A. 2009. The Marx of Anti-Oedipus. Deleuze Studies 3(Suppl), pp. 28-52.
Book sections
- Tynan, A. 2025. The passion of abolition: Deleuze and Guattari and the affective politics of Fascism. In: Deleuze and Affect. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
- Tynan, A. 2023. Sum deorc wyrd gathers: Dark ecology, Brexit ecocriticism, and the Far Right. In: Parham, J. ed. The Literature and Politics of the Environment., Vol. 76. Essays and Studies D.S. Brewer, pp. 89-108.
- Tynan, A. 2023. Topologies of Nihilism: Anthropocene imaginaries and the figure of the desert. In: Shekhawat, S., Alex, R. K. and Rangarajan, S. eds. Desertscapes in the Anthropocene: Global South Perspectives. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 13-26.
- Tynan, A. and Muller, C. J. 2017. Introduction. In: Tynan, A., Milesi, L. and Muller, C. J. eds. Credo Credit Crisis: Speculations on Faith and Money. Rowman and Littlefield
- Tynan, A. 2017. Impotent signs: money, speculative subjectivity, and the ontological proof. In: Tynan, A., Milesi, L. and Muller, C. J. eds. Credo Credit Crisis: Speculations on Faith and Money. Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 211-238.
- Tynan, A. 2016. The apocalyptic unconscious: schizoanalysis as political theology. In: Shults, F. L. and Powell-Jones, L. eds. Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Religion. Schizoanalytic Applications London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 95-116.
- Buchanan, I., Matts, T. and Tynan, A. 2015. Introduction: towards a schizoanalytic criticism. In: Buchanan, I., Matts, T. and Tynan, A. eds. Deleuze and the schizoanalysis of literature. Schizoanalytic Applications Bloomsbury
- Tynan, A. 2014. Reading Anti-Oedipus: literature, schizophrenia, and universal history. In: Ardoin, P., Gontarski, S. and Mattison, L. eds. Understanding Deleuze, understanding modernism. Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism Bloomsbury
Books
- Osuna, C. and Tynan, A. eds. 2024. Storied deserts: Reimagining global arid lands. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (10.4324/9781003397212)
- Tynan, A. 2020. The desert in modern literature and philosophy: Wasteland aesthetics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Tynan, A., Milesi, L. and Muller, C. J. eds. 2017. Credo credit crisis: speculations on faith and money. Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics. Rowman and Littlefield.
- Buchanan, I., Matts, T. and Tynan, A. eds. 2015. Deleuze and the schizoanalysis of literature. Schizoanalytic Applications. Bloomsbury.
- Tynan, A. 2012. Deleuze's literary clinic: criticism and the politics of symptoms. Plateaus: New Directions in Deleuze Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Thesis
- Tynan, A. 2011. The literary clinic: Deleuze, criticism, and the politics of symptoms. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Research
The current focus of my work combines approaches in literary studies, critical and cultural theory, and qualitative social sciences to research topics in the environmental humanities. I am also working on the cultural manifestations of fascism and the far right. I have published extensively on critical and cultural theory, with particular emphasis on Deleuze and Guattari. I am presently writing on ecofascism and far-right political ecologies in the context of the Anthropocene.
In recent years, I have presented at workshops and symposia at the University of Zurich, Arizona State University and the University of Southern Denmark. I am part of Cardiff-based researched networks such as Cardiff Environmental Cultures, ScienceHumanities, and Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far Right (CIRAF). I am an editor for the Journal of Literature and Science.
Supervisions
I welcome applications from potential graduate students interested in ecocritical approaches to modern and contemporary literature and culture, environmental social and political theory, fascism and the far right, the individual and collaborative works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and aspects of continental philosophy, poststructuralism and theory generally.
Contact Details
TynanA@cardiff.ac.uk
+44 29208 74822
John Percival Building, Room 1.23, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
+44 29208 74822
John Percival Building, Room 1.23, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
Research themes
Specialisms
- 20th-21st century
- Far-right politics
- Ecocriticism
- Environmental humanities
- Critical & Cultural Theory