David Wills

Datos Biográficos

ID133184
NOMBREDavid Wills
NOMBRESDavid
APELLIDOWills
FIRMAWILLS D
AFILIACIONESFilm Independent
ORCID0000-0003-3097-2030
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS57
TOTAL DE CITAS232
TOTAL COMO AUTOR56
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1961
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H3

  • Revisiting The Island

    Open AccessDavid WillsARTICLENeograeca Bohemica2026

    Nearly a quarter of a century ago, the British writer Victoria Hislop visited Crete's Spinalonga, a leper colony between 1903 and 1957, for the first time.1This dark tourism experience led directly to The Island

  • A New Inventory and Conservation Assessment of United States Islands

    Open AccessRobert Sayre, Roger W Sayre et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2026Referencias: 28

    To support conservation-focused research and management we developed a new 30-m resolution polygon data layer of the nonlacustrine and nonriverine islands of the United States, with associated attributes describing key physical and conservation geography characteristics. Islands were grouped into a three-tiered hierarchy of island regions (twelve), island provinces (twenty-eight), and individual islands (19,023). Islands were classified as either…

  • A Response

    Open AccessDavid WillsARTICLEDerrida Today2025

  • Speculative Fiction

    David Wills, David G WillsARTICLETextual Practice2025

    How does one speculate about a future book by a writer based on one's knowledge of that author's previous work? This article posits that that question has a specific answer in the case of work by Nicholas Royle, whose work, on memory, mourning and telepathy upends our presumptions about writing and temporality. The hypothesis is tested with respect to Royle's new book, David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine

  • The Ecology of the Technical Object

    David WillsARTICLESubStance2025

    Ecology is a question because the human is a technological animal, because the human relation to nature is technological; ecology thus concerns the originary technicity of the human. In developing that thesis against the background of the work of Simondon, this article argues that the analysis of technicity developed in On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects is fundamental to Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information , prev…

  • The English despot’

    Open AccessDavid WillsARTICLEByzantine and Modern Greek Studies2023

    Francis Noel-Baker (1920–2009) was an English Philhellene politician and self-proclaimed benevolent landowner in Euboea whose relationship in his later years with Greek governments and people descended into acrimony and litigation. This stemmed from the decision he took to effectively become an apologist for the military junta which seized power in Athens between 1967 and 1974. This was despite London being a centre for Greek resistance-in-exile,…

  • James Bond in Greece

    Open AccessDavid WillsARTICLEJournal of Greek Media & Culture2022

    Three Hellenic episodes from the long life of that globetrotting spy/tourist James Bond are considered here. From Russia With Love , the 1963 film adaption faithful to Ian Fleming’s 1957 original story, was followed by a Kingsley Amis 1968 Bond continuation novel and finally by 1981’s Roger Moore movie For Your Eyes Only . Their respective settings of north-eastern Greece, Athens and the Cyclades, and Corfu and Meteora, are discussed in terms of …

  • Perjury and Pardon, Volume I

    Jacques Derrida, David Wills et al.BOOKPerjury and Pardon, Volume I2022

  • Perjury and Pardon, Volume II

    Jacques Derrida, David WillsBOOKPerjury and Pardon2022

  • Crown of Spikes

    Open AccessDavid WillsARTICLEDerrida Today2020

    At a moment in the sixth session of Derrida's 1999 seminar on 'Perjury and Pardon' (2020), he makes this observation: 'One day, perhaps, a distinction will be made between two eras, between pre-AIDs thinkers and those who were born or lived late enough to encounter AIDS in the world and to have inscribed its motif in their thinking or writing' (my translation). His Comment is made against the background of an earlier discussion of the so-called '…

  • Which Way Back (way back)

    David WillsARTICLEPhilosophy Today2020

    This essay considers together two recent posthumous publications by Derrida: Geschlecht III, and La vie la mort, both of which raise questions concerning translation. In Geschlecht III that is first of all the problem of how to translate the German word, how Heidegger’s reading of Trakl profits from, or loses in its translation, and how Derrida’s reading of Heidegger either does or does not translate Heidegger’s own interpretive practice. Referen…

  • Killing Times

    David WillsBOOKKilling Times2020

    Killing Times begins with the deceptively simple observation—made by Jacques Derrida in his seminars on the topic—that the death penalty mechanically interrupts mortal time by preempting the typical mortal experience of not knowing at what precise moment we will die. Through a broader examination of what constitutes mortal temporality, David Wills proposes that the so-called machinery of death summoned by the death penalty works by exploiting, or…

  • Durrells and donkeys

    Open AccessDavid WillsARTICLEByzantine and Modern Greek Studies2020Referencias: 2

    The celebrated conservationist, and serial memoirist, Gerald Durrell often imaginatively revisited the Corfu of his childhood. Donkeys were integral to his vision of Greek rural life. Both the setting and the style of his literary output resisted what he regarded as unwelcome modernization. His 1968 publication The Donkey Rustlers, one of his few novels, shows how Durrell attempted to perpetuate an outdated view of both Greece and children's lite…

  • Killing Times

    Open AccessDavid WillsBOOKKilling Times2019

    Killing Times starts from the deceptively simple observation— made by Jacques Derrida—that the death penalty mechanically interrupts mortal time, preempting our normal experience of not knowing when we will die. The book examines more broadly what constitutes mortal temporality and how the “machinery of death” exploits and perverts time. It first examines Eighth Amendment challenges to the death penalty in the U.S, from the late nineteenth-centur…

  • Theory and Practice

    Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey Bennington et al.BOOKTheory and Practice2019

  • Big Old Theory

    David WillsARTICLEContemporary French and…2019

    The opening Keynote event at the Sous les paves conference was a roundtable discussion designed to commemorate a generation’s relationship with what was known as “French Theory,” and the role playe

  • The Drone Penal Colony. A review of Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone

    Open AccessDavid WillsARTICLEPostmodern Culture2018

    The Drone Penal ColonyA review of Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone David Wills (bio) Chamayou, Grégoire. A Theory of the Drone. Translated by Janet Lloyd, The New P, 2015. Grégoire Chamayou’s A Theory of the Drone (published in French in 2013) provides a provocative and insightful assessment of nearly ten years of drone warfare conducted by the US since sometime after its invasion of Afghanistan. Drone warfare is now being used increasing…

  • The Greek Crisis at the movies

    David WillsARTICLEJournal of Greek Media & Culture2017

    The ongoing economic crisis has afforded film-makers the opportunity for transforming Greece from paradise holiday destination to violent nightmare. Jason Bourne (2016) presents an extended dystopian vision of Athens beset by graffiti, political instability and riots. This short article sets this significant ‘dark tourism’ development in the context of recent English-language commentary about the present situation in Greece – including from trave…

  • Informal Observations. A review of David Farrell Krell, Derrida and Our Animal Others

    Open AccessDavid WillsARTICLEPostmodern Culture2016

    Informal Observations. A review of David Farrell Krell, Derrida and Our Animal Others: Derrida’s Final Seminar, “The Beast and the Sovereign.” David Wills (bio) Krell, David Farrell. Derrida and Our Animal Others: Derrida’s Final Seminar, The Beast and the Sovereign. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2013. Over the past twenty years David Krell has often eschewed the standard format of scholarly publications in favor of, for example, philosophical fiction…

  • Reinventing Paradise

    Open AccessDavid WillsARTICLEByzantine and Modern Greek Studies2015Referencias: 2

    In the second half of the twentieth century Greece became a subject for travel writers in search of a European ‘Paradise’. But ‘Hell was also to be found in Greece, often in the form of frustrations over allegedly ‘non-European’ standards of living, facilities, and attitudes. A sample of travel narratives published between 2006 and 2014 suggests the extent to which, in the light of the ‘Greek Crisis’, twenty-first-century writers are abandoning t…

  • Plus d'écrit

    David WillsARTICLERue Descartes2014

  • No-More-Writing

    Open AccessDavid WillsARTICLEOxford Literary Review2014

    The first version of these fragments was drafted in summer 2005, in the context of a meeting at the Château de la Bretesche, where friends of Derrida, who no longer knew where to turn, gathered to discuss the heritage of his work around the topic of autoimmunity. I thank the participants of that meeting for the ideas they shared, and especially for their friendship and support. A French version of what follows appears in Rue Descartes (September …

  • Drone Penalty

    David WillsARTICLESubStance2014

    Drone Penalty David Wills (bio) As will be argued in what follows, the central question of the death penalty is the question of time. That question begins, in the present case, with the time of a writing that attempts to address what we call current events, particularly an academic writing—as distinct, for example, from journalistic writing—whose rhythms of composition and publication obey particular protocols and render problematic the specifics…

  • Order Catastrophically Unknown

    David WillsARTICLEMosaic2011

    Order Catastrophically Unknown David Wills (bio) Suppose such a syntagm: “Order catastrophically unknown.” Flashed on a screen in some operations room crowded with aghast personnel and overheating machines alike: the personnel either brow–furrowed Americans in crisp uniforms or incomprehensible transgalactic aliens, or a combination of one and the other; the machines a serial constellation of flashing lights, pixilated frames, maps, and increasin…

  • The Audible Life of the Image

    Open AccessDavid WillsARTICLEJournal of French and Francophone…2010Citada por: 1Referencias: 1

    Since at least 1980 Godard’s cinema has been explicitly looking for (its) music, as if for its outside. In Sauve qui peut (la vie) Paul Godard hears, and asks about it, coming through the hotel room wall, and it follows him down to the lobby, but remains “off,” like Marguerite Duras’s voice, in spite of his questions, until the final sequence. At that moment, at the end of the section entitled “Music,” the protagonist is at the same time struck b…