Nina Power
Encyclopedia
Nina Power is a British philosopher, writer
, journalist
and academic. She is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
at Roehampton University
. She is the co-editor of Alain Badiou
's On Samuel Beckett and his Political Writings.
Power has published articles on varied topics including Ludwig Feuerbach, 20th century French philosophy
, Shulamith Firestone
, "Female Noise
", Dziga Vertov
, and Education. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian
, New Statesman
, and The New Humanist
, and is reviews editor for The Philosophers' Magazine.
Power is the author of the blog Infinite Thought.
magazine described the book as "[s]cathing and scattergun ... offer[ing] a series of diverting and highly original quips, riffs and considerations" on topics including vintage pornography, the hijab, and the "Sarah Palin phenomenon". It was called "an important contribution to the latest string of books on feminism and women’s liberation" in International Socialism.
Writer
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, journalist
Journalist
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and academic. She is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
at Roehampton University
Roehampton University
The University of Roehampton is a campus university in the United Kingdom, situated on three major sites in Roehampton, south-west London.-History:...
. She is the co-editor of Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, professor at European Graduate School, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure . Along with Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Žižek, Badiou is a prominent figure in an anti-postmodern strand of continental philosophy...
's On Samuel Beckett and his Political Writings.
Power has published articles on varied topics including Ludwig Feuerbach, 20th century French philosophy
Twentieth-century French philosophy
20th-century French philosophy is a strand of contemporary philosophy generally associated with post-World War II French thinkers, although it is directly influenced by previous philosophical movements.-Bergson:...
, Shulamith Firestone
Shulamith Firestone
Shulamith Firestone , is a Jewish, Canadian-born feminist. She was a central figure in the early development of radical feminism, having been a founding member of the New York Radical Women, Redstockings, and New York Radical Feminists...
, "Female Noise
Noise
In common use, the word noise means any unwanted sound. In both analog and digital electronics, noise is random unwanted perturbation to a wanted signal; it is called noise as a generalisation of the acoustic noise heard when listening to a weak radio transmission with significant electrical noise...
", Dziga Vertov
Dziga Vertov
David Abelevich Kaufman , better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov , was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist...
, and Education. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, New Statesman
New Statesman
New Statesman is a British centre-left political and cultural magazine published weekly in London. Founded in 1913, and connected with leading members of the Fabian Society, the magazine reached a circulation peak in the late 1960s....
, and The New Humanist
New Humanist
New Humanist is a monthly magazine published by the Rationalist Association in the UK. It has been in print for 125 years; starting out life as Watts's Literary Guide, founded by C. A. Watts in November 1885....
, and is reviews editor for The Philosophers' Magazine.
Power is the author of the blog Infinite Thought.
One Dimensional Woman
Her first book One Dimensional Woman (2009 ISBN 978-1-84694-241-9) which has its origins in her blog and other web journals - was published by Zero Books in 2009. The New StatesmanNew Statesman
New Statesman is a British centre-left political and cultural magazine published weekly in London. Founded in 1913, and connected with leading members of the Fabian Society, the magazine reached a circulation peak in the late 1960s....
magazine described the book as "[s]cathing and scattergun ... offer[ing] a series of diverting and highly original quips, riffs and considerations" on topics including vintage pornography, the hijab, and the "Sarah Palin phenomenon". It was called "an important contribution to the latest string of books on feminism and women’s liberation" in International Socialism.
Other works
- Alain Badiou, On Beckett, transl. and ed. by Alberto ToscanoAlberto ToscanoAlberto Toscano is a cultural critic, social theorist, philosopher and translator best known to the English-speaking world for his translations of the work of Alain Badiou, including Badiou’s The Century and Logics of Worlds...
and Nina Power; (London: Clinamen Press, 2003): ISBN 978-1-903083-30-7 (paperback); ISBN 978-1-903083-26-0 (hardcover) - Shelia Rowbotham presents Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Revolutions Series (London: Verso, June 2010) (chronology, references, further reading). ISBN 978-1-84467-446-6
Interviews
- Chantal MouffeChantal MouffeChantal Mouffe is a Belgian political theorist.-Work:Chantal Mouffe studied at Louvain, Paris and Essex and has worked in many universities throughout the world . She has also held visiting positions at Harvard, Cornell, Princeton and the CNRS...
, New Statesman, 19 November 2009. - Sylvère LotringerSylvère LotringerSylvère Lotringer is a literary critic and cultural theorist. A younger contemporary of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio and Michel Foucault, he is best known for synthesizing French theory with American literary, cultural and architectural avant-garde movements...
, frieze, Issue 125, Sept 2009. - Judith ButlerJudith ButlerJudith Butler is an American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is a professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley.Butler received her Ph.D...
, New Statesman, 27 August 2009. - Alain BadiouAlain BadiouAlain Badiou is a French philosopher, professor at European Graduate School, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure . Along with Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Žižek, Badiou is a prominent figure in an anti-postmodern strand of continental philosophy...
, The Philosophers' Magazine, 46, May/June 2009. - Charlotte RocheCharlotte RocheCharlotte Elisabeth Grace Roche is a British-born German television presenter, actress, singer and author.- Life and career :...
, Salon, 4 April 2009. Reprinted in the US paperback edition of Roche's Wetlands (HarperCollins). - Jacques RancièreJacques RancièreJacques Rancière is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris Jacques Rancière (born Algiers, 1940) is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee...
, ephemera (forthcoming).
Film and TV Appearances
- Marx ReloadedMarx ReloadedMarx Reloaded is a 2011 German documentary film written and directed by the British writer and theorist Jason Barker. Featuring interviews with several well-known philosophers, the film aims to examine the relevance of Karl Marx's ideas in relation to the global economic and financial crisis of...
, April 2011, ZDFZDFZweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...
/ArteArteArte is a Franco-German TV network. It is a European culture channel and aims to promote quality programming especially in areas of culture and the arts...
. - Chronicles Of Protest, April 2011.
Radio Appearances
- Discussion with Susan Finlay on the topic: "As Long as Women will Exist", Resonance FM, 3 March 2010.
- Interview about "One-Dimensional Woman" with Elanor McInerney for Women On the Line (Australia), 5 Feb 2010.
- Panel discussion on George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language", Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4, 15 December 2009.
- Interview on BBC Ulster's Sunday Sequence on Lars von Trier's Antichrist, 9 August 2009.
- Interview on BBC World Service to mark the 60th anniversary of the publication of Orwell's 1984, 8 June 2009.
External links
- Interview, friezeFrieze (magazine)-Publication:frieze is published eight times a year and is based in London. As well as essays, exhibition reviews and columns by forward-thinking writers, artists, critics and curators, the magazine includes music reviews, artist projects, interviews and sections on design and...
- Power's staff page at Roehampton UniversityRoehampton UniversityThe University of Roehampton is a campus university in the United Kingdom, situated on three major sites in Roehampton, south-west London.-History:...
- Infinite Thought blog.
- Profile at guardian.co.ukGuardian.co.ukguardian.co.uk, formerly known as Guardian Unlimited, is a British website owned by the Guardian Media Group. Georgina Henry is the editor...
, including an archive of articles.