“Aristotle’s Abduction: The Institution of Frontiers.” The Oxford Literary Review.  14 (1992) 171 - 95.   Eds.  Geoff Bennington and Barry Stocker.

“The Enigma in Question:  Ethics After Heidegger,” Postmodern Surroundings. Ed. Steven Earnshaw. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994. 203-13.

“The Subject of the Other.” Critical Studies. 8 (1997) 29 - 42.

“Technê’s Other Eye: Concerning an Art with no Effects.” Art, Criticism, Theory. 4 (1998) 51 - 64.

“As If ... The Postmodern Psyche and the Borderline Case,” Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Texts. Ed. Steven Earnshaw. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995.

“Just Sentences: The Incalculable in Postmodern Justice” Just Postmodernism.  Ed. Steven Earnshaw. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997.

“The Fissure of Authority: Violence and the Acquisition of Knowledge,” Reading Melanie Klein. Ed. Lyndsey Stonebridge and John Phillips. London: Routledge, 1998.

Reading Melanie Klein. Eds. John Phillips and Lyndsey Stonebridge. London: Routledge, 1998.

“Lagging Behind: Postcoloniality, Theory and the Future,” Travel Writing and Empire. Ed. Steven Clark. London: Zed, 1999.

“Singapore Soil: A Completely Different Organization of Space,” Urban Space and Representation. Ed. Maria Balshaw and Liam Kennedy. London: Pluto Press, 1999.

Contested Knowledge: A Guide to Critical Theory. London: Zed, 2000.

“Poststructuralism and Deconstruction,” in Chapter 321 “Critical Theory,” Ed. Steven Connor. Annotated Bibliography for English Studies. Lisse: Swets and Zeitlinger, May 1997.  Updated 2000 & 2001.

“Deconstruction in Terms.”  Some Versions of Différance: A Workshop on Deconstruction. Ed. John Whelan-Bridge. Singapore: Centre for Advanced Studies, 2001.

“Idea for a Universal History with a Virtual Purpose—the world wide will.”  Approaching a New Millennium: Lessons from the Past - Prospects for the Future. Proceedings of the 7^th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas.  Ed. Daniel Apollon, Odd-Bjorn Fure and Lars Svåsand. Bergen: HIT, 2000.

“Cockpits, Coffins, and the Camera Obscura: Sighted Weapons and Modernist Opacity.” Co-Author Ryan Bishop. boundary 2 vol. 29, no. 2 (Summer 2002).

“Manufacturing Emergencies,” Co-Author Ryan Bishop. Theory Culture and Society, 19 4, Fall 2002. 620-625.

Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes.  Ed. (with Ryan Bishop and Wei-Wei Yeo) New York: Routledge, 2003.

“The Curious Logic of the Hinge.” Co-Author Ryan Bishop. Body and Society (special issue, ed. John Armitage) Vol 9 No. 4, December 2003. 1-21.

Beyond Description: Space Historicity Singapore. Ed. (with Ryan Bishop and Wei-Wei Yeo) London: Routledge, 2004. 

“British Soil: Repeat, Multiply, Address,” Constructing British Identities: Texts, Sub-Texts, and Contexts, ed. Andrew Benjamin and Robbie B. H. Goh. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.

“Torn Pieces: A New Aesthetics of Trash,” in Postmodern Singapore, ed. William Lim. Singapore: Select, 2002.

“Wanderings: The Space of Writing and the Ineluctable World of the Future,” Collection Frontières: The Geopolitics of Globalization and Southeast Asia/Europe Relations. Ed. Jean-Claude Redonnet and Srilata Ravi. Paris: Sorbonnes, 2003.

“William Lim: The Evolution of an Alternative.” Introduction to Alternative (Post)Modernity: An Asian Perspective. William Lim. Singapore: Select, 2003.

“The Slow and the Blind.” Co-Author Ryan Bishop. Culture and Organization Volume 10, Number 1 March 2004, 61 - 75

“Martin Heidegger.” Twentieth Century European Cultural Theorists. Ed. Paul Hanson. Columbia Ca: DLB, 2004.

“Jacques Derrida,” The Encyclopedia of Social theory. 2 Vols. Ed. George Ritzer. London: Sage, 2004.

“Beyond Description: Singapore Space Historicity” Introduction to Beyond Description: Space Historicity Singapore. Edited by Ryan Bishop, John Phillips and Wei-Wei Yeo.  London: Routledge, 2004.

“Urban New Archiving,” in Beyond Description: Space Historicity Singapore. Edited Ryan Bishop, John Phillips and Wei-Wei Yeo.  London: Routledge, 2004.

“Diasporic Communities and Identity Politics: Containing the Political” (with Ryan Bishop) in Asian Diasporas: Cultures, Identities, Representations. Ed. Robbie B.H. Goh and Shawn Wong. Hong Kong: HKUP, 2004.

“The Future of the Past: Archiving Singapore” in Urban Memory: History and Oblivion in the Modern City. Ed. Mark Crinson. London: Routledge, 2004.

“Review Essay on Paradigms of Reading and Close Reading.” European Journal of English Studies Volume 8 Number 1 April 2004.

“Kraft og Klassifikation: Frugter af Hegels Logik.” Kulture og Klasse 99 33. Argang Nr. 1 (2005) 59-85. (Translation into Danish of an article on G. W. F. Hegel and Jacques Derrida for the Danish Journal).

“Failures: The Deconstruction of the Teaching Body.” Parallax, 40, July-September 2006. 27-42.

John Phillips with Mike Featherstone, Couze Venn and Ryan Bishop, eds. Theory Culture and Society, Vol. 23, nos. 2 and 3 (March-May 2006), special issue on Problematizing Global Knowledge.

“Logic of Knowledge,” “Agencement/Assemblage,” “Deconstruction,” Theory Culture and Society, Vol. 23, nos. 2 and 3 (March-May 2006), special issue on Problematizing Global Knowledge. 97-101, 108-111, 194-195.

“Language,” “The Knowledge Apparatus,” “Ignorance,” and “Violence.” With Ryan Bishop. Theory Culture and Society, Vol. 23, nos. 2 and 3 (March-May 2006), special issue on Problematizing Global Knowledge. 51-59, 186-191, 180-183, 377-387.

John Phillips with Ryan Bishop and Greg Clancey, eds. Just Targets. Special Issue of Cultural Politics, Vol. 2, no. 1 March 2006. “Introduction,” 5-28.

“Targeting the City,” Interventions in Under Fire 2: The Organization and Representation of Violence. Ed. Jordan Crandall. Rotterdam: Witte de With, 2005.

“Commentary on William Lim’s Urban Theory” in Asian Ethical Urbanism by William Lim. Singapore: World Scientific, 2005.

“Blake’s Question (from the Orient).” The Reception of Blake in the Orient. Ed. Steve Clark and Masashi Suzuki. London: Continuum, 2006. 288-300.

“To Execute a Clinamen.” Figures of Bloom: The Salt Companion to Harold Bloom. Ed. Graham Allen and Roy Sellars. Cambridge: Salt, 2006.

“Force and Classification: Derrida’s Glas and the Fruits of Hegel’s Logic.”  Glossing Glas Ed. Per Krogh Hansen and Roy Sellars. Nebraska: Nebraska University Press, 2007.

“Shakespeare and the Question of Intercultural Performance.” To be published in Foreign Shakespeares II: Shakespeare Performance in the New Asias Ed. Dennis Kennedy and Yong Li Lan. Cambridge: CUP, forthcoming.