Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz. He is the Associate Editor of "Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Critical Thought "and the author of "The Event of The Thing: Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism "(2009), "Groundless Existence: The Political Ontology of Carl Schmitt" (2010), " Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (2013), The Philosopher's Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium" (2014), and "Phenomena-Critique-Logos: The Project of Critical Phenomenology" (2014).