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Charles William Johns (born March 31, 1988) is a British academic, author and philosopher.

Biography
He was born in Lincoln, England and attended Lincoln Christ's Hospital School and Lincoln College, Lincolnshire. He finished his Bachelor of Arts and later pursued Master of Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London, London in Theory of art, submitting his final thesis on the resurgence of nihilism in contemporary philosophical discourse. Charles William Johns attended lectures of Simon O' Sullivan of Plastique Fantastique and Mark Fisher amongst others. He is a child of the speculative realism movement which takes its name from a conference held at Goldsmiths, University of London in April 2007. He has been associated with the College of Arts, University of Lincoln as Research Assistant.

Philosphical Work
Charles William Johns works within the fields of phenomenology, neo materialism, speculative realism (in particular Object-Oriented Ontology) and Relational theory such as the works of Bruno Latour and Tristan Garcia. Charles William Johns work attempts to synthesize a Relational Ontology with Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Philosophy through the idea that relations are simultaneously immanent yet contain their own internal duality i.e relation is both a mode of the world and a property of that world, which cannot be reduced to other relations (relations are irreducible and will'withdraw'). In total, he has published 6 books and has edited a collection of essays on neurosis with contributors such as Graham Harman and Nick Land. In it, he and other writers challenge the terms subsequent demise from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and argue for its prevalence in contemporary discourses on knowledge (mainly philosophy, psychology, science, linguistics, and sociology). For this work, he was interviewed by Moscow Museum of Modern Art. His new book titled Irreducible Reality of the Object will be published by Springer Publishing in 2020.

Fiction Writing
Charles William Johns is a ‘Method Writer’ in his fictional work (analogous to 'method acting' in theatre); he finds his content in everyday life, researches real people and integrates them into his stories. He even lives out the characters of his stories. His work has been celebrated by Julian Barnes and D. M. Thomas.

Published Works

 * ''Incompatible Ballerina and Other Essays, John Hunt Publishing, 2015 ISBN 1782798757.
 * ''Neurosis and Assimilation, Springer Publishing 2016. ISBN 9783319475417.
 * ''Neurosis: A Philosophical Study: Epistemology, Ontology, and Metaphysics, Lambert Academic Publication 2016 ISBN 3659583642.
 * ''Malchus, Resource Publications, 2017 ISBN 1532615590.
 * ''Outlook, Resource Publications, 2017 ISBN 1532670508.
 * ''The Neurotic Turn, Repeater Books, 2017 ISBN 1910924652.