Nina Power is an English writer and philosopher. She is a senior editor of and columnist for the online magazine ''

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''. Power received her PhD in philosophy from Middlesex University on the topic of

humanism Humanism is a philosophy, philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential and Agency (philosophy), agency of Human, human beings. It considers human beings the starting point for serious moral and philosophical in ...

and

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French philosophy French philosophy, here taken to mean philosophy in the French language, has been extremely diverse and has influenced Western philosophy as a whole for centuries, from the medieval scholasticism of Peter Abelard, through the founding of modern ...

, and also has an MA and BA in philosophy from the

University of Warwick , mottoeng = Mind moves matter , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £7.0 million (2021) , budget = £698.2 million (2020� ...

. She was a senior lecturer in philosophy at

Roehampton University The University of Roehampton, London, formerly Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, is a public university in the United Kingdom, situated on three major sites in Roehampton, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. Roehampton was formerly an e ...

, and has taught at Middlesex, Orpington College,

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Morley College Morley College is a specialist adult education and further education college in London, England. The college has three main campuses, one in Waterloo on the South Bank, and two in West London namely in North Kensington and in Chelsea, the la ...

. Power also worked as a tutor in critical writing in art and design at the

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, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the

British Philosophical Association The British Philosophical Association (BPA) is a British organisation set up in October 2002 to promote the study of philosophy. Early history During the early 1980s the merging of educational establishments and financial cut-backs meant that so ...

. She served as both editor and translator (with Alberto Toscano) of

Alain Badiou Alain Badiou (; ; born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Fouca ...

's ''On Beckett''. Some of the publications she regularly contributes are ''

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Radical Philosophy ''Radical Philosophy'' is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal of critical theory and philosophy. It was established in 1972 with the purpose of providing a forum for the theoretical work which was emerging in the wake of the radical movement ...

'', ''

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'', '' Cabinet'', ''

Film Quarterly ''Film Quarterly'', a journal devoted to the study of film, television, and visual media, is published by University of California Press. It publishes scholarly analyses of international and Hollywood cinema as well as independent film, including d ...

'', ''

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'' and '' The Philosophers' Magazine''. In 2015, she commissioned ''Bad Feelings'' by Arts Against Cuts, a collection of writing and 'set of materials for conflict and commonality' published by Book Works.

Selected bibliography

;Translated books *(with Alberto Toscano), Alain Badiou, ''On Beckett''. London: Clinamen Press, 2003. *(with Alberto Toscano) Alain Badiou, ''Political Writings''. New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming. ;Authored books *''One-Dimensional Woman'' (Winchester: Zero Books, 2009). *Translated into French as ''La Femme Unidimensionnelle'' by Nicolas Vieillescazes (Paris: Les Prairies Ordinaires, 2010). *Translated into Turkish as "Tek Boyutlu Kadin" by Özlem Kaya (Istanbul: Habitus Kitap, 2010). *Translated into German as "Die eindimensionale Frau" by Anna-Sophie Springer (Berlin: Merve, 2011). *Translated into Italian by Cecilia Savi as "La donna a una dimensione" (Rome: DeriveApprodi, 2011). *Translated into Spanish by Teresa Arijón as "La mujer unidimensional" (Buenos Aires: Cruce Casa Editora, 2016) . *Translated into Korean by SeongJun Kim as "Dodukmajeun Feminism" (Seoul: Editus, 2018). *''What Do Men Want?'' (UK: Penguin, 2021). ;Selected articles in edited collections and books *"E.P. Thompson's Concept of Class, the Flesh and Blood of Self-Emancipation", ''E. P. Thompson and English Radicalism'', ed. Roger Fieldhouse & Richard Taylor (Manchester: MUP, 2013) *(with Alberto Toscano), "Politics". ''Badiou: Key Concepts''. Ed.

Justin Clemens Justin Clemens (born 22 April 1969) is an Australian academic known for his work on Alain Badiou, psychoanalysis, European philosophy, and contemporary Australian art and literature. He is also a published poet. Background Clemens studied at the ...

and A. J. Barlett. (London: Acumen, 2010).Contributions from various Badiou scholars and translators including, along with Power, Toscano and Clemens, Bruno Bosteels,

Ray Brassier Raymond Brassier (born 1965) is a British philosopher. He is member of the philosophy faculty at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, known for his work in philosophical realism. He was formerly Research Fellow at the Centre for Resear ...

, Oliver Feltham, Z.L. Fraser *"On Feuerbach, Speculation and Atheism", ''After the Postsecular and the Postmodern: New Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion'', ed. by Anthony Paul Smith and Daniel Whistler (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010). *"Towards a Cybernetic Communism: The Technology of the Anti-Family", ''Further Adventures of the Dialectic of Sex'', ed. by Mandy Merck and Stella Sandford (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). ;Selected articles in journals *"Potentiality or Capacity? Agamben's Missing Subjects", ''Theory and Event'', (13.1, Spring 2010). A version of this essay was published in Slovenian in Filozofski vestnik, Vol. XXX, No. 1, Ljubljana, 2009. *"Non-Reproductive Futurism", ''Borderlands'', vol. 8, no. 2, 200

*"Which Anarchism? On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Infinity for (Political) Life: A Response to Simon Critchley's Infinitely Demanding", ''Critical Horizons'', Vol. 10 (2009), Issue

*"Which Equality? Badiou and Rancière in Light of Ludwig Feuerbach", ''Parallax'' (Volume 15, Issue 3 August 2009) (available on academia.edu). *"The Philosophy of Restoration: Alain Badiou and the Enemies of May" (with Alberto Toscano), (abstract), ''boundary'' 2, 2009 36(1) (available on academia.edu) *"The Truth of Humanity: The Collective Political Subject in Sartre and Badiou", ''Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy'', vol. 9, 2009. *"Axiomatic Equality: Jacques Rancière and the Politics of Contemporary Education", ''Polygraph'', 21 (2009). Reprinted in Eurozine. *"Philosophy's Subjects", ''Parrhesia'', Issue 3, 200

*"The Terror of Collectivity: Sartre's Theory of Political Groups", ''Prelom 8'' (Belgrade), Fall 200

*"Towards an Anthropology of Infinitude: Badiou and the Political Subject", ''Cosmos and History'', 'The Praxis of Alain Badiou', Issue 2, 200

*"Bachelard contra Bergson and Ancient Atomism", ''Angelaki'', Volume 11, Issue 3 2006 (available on academia.edu). *"Badiou and Feuerbach: What is Generic Humanity?", ''Subject Matters: A Journal of Communication and the Self'', Vol. 2, no. 1, 2005. *Translation (with Alberto Toscano) of Alain Badiou's "Existence and Death",''Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture'', 24.1 (2002). *"On the Nature of Things: Nietzsche and Democritus", ''Pli'', 12 (2001

Film appearances

* '' Marx Reloaded'',

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, April 2011.

References

External links

Power's profile
at

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newspaper website
Power's profile
at Zero Books
Figure/Ground interview with Nina Power. December 30th, 2012
* Nina Power delivers lecture
Men, women, and the twenty-first century
Filmed at the University of Sheffield * Nina Power interview with the Prokhorov Centre
One-dimensional woman
* Nina Power interview with the Prokhorov Centre
Feuerbach, Sartre, and the collective political subject
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