Author name: Lyne Hervey-Passée

Lyne Hervey-Passée is a PhD candidate in research creation. Her dissertation is titled: “Counter-Hegemonic Discourse and Visual Writing in the Texts of Thomas Paine.” At the intersection of research creation and the study of pamphleteering forms, her work focuses on Paine’s voice, his political poetics, and the ways in which his texts circulate and resonate within contemporary art, particularly through oral, visual, and sonic forms.

Marker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with the inscription, ‘At his print shop here, Robert Bell published the first edition of Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamphlet [Common Sense] in January 1776. Arguing for a republican form of government under a written constitution, it played a key role in rallying American support for independence.’ Erected in 1993 by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission – Photo by J. J. Prats

Ink, Imagination and Algorithm: Returning to Common Sense

Lyne Hervey-Passée / June 1, 2026

Studies in Thomas Paine

How do we recall a voice whose power lies precisely in its circulation, its instability, its capacity to pass from body to body, rather than in its fixation as an object or an authorial figure?

Thomas Paine's Common Sense

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