Oliver Feltham is Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Paris. His training in Sydney and Paris was in contemporary French philosophy, psychoanalysis, theatre and eco-design. During his career he has used this training to develop an innovative method and apply it to the question of the ontology of political action in early modern philosophy, aesthetics and metaphysics. His current research concerns the genealogy of the concept of political action in modernity, and the relation between action, time and the collective imagination.