- Nina Power
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Nina Power Born West Country, England Residence London Nationality British Education PhD in philosophy Alma mater Middlesex University Occupation Philosopher, writer, lecturer Website infinitethought.cinestatic.com 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,[1] Shulamith Firestone,[2] "Female Noise",[3] Dziga Vertov,[4] and Education.[5] She is a regular contributor to The Guardian, New Statesman, and The New Humanist, and is reviews editor for The Philosophers' Magazine.[citation needed]
Power is the author of the blog Infinite Thought.[6]
Contents
One Dimensional Woman
Her first book One Dimensional Woman (2009 ISBN 978-1-84694-241-9) which has its origins in her blog[7] and other web journals[8] - was published by Zero Books in 2009.[9] The New Statesman 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".[10] It was called "an important contribution to the latest string of books on feminism and women’s liberation" in International Socialism.[11]
Other works
- Alain Badiou, On Beckett, transl. and ed. by Alberto Toscano 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 Mouffe, New Statesman, 19 November 2009.
- Sylvère Lotringer, frieze, Issue 125, Sept 2009.
- Judith Butler, New Statesman, 27 August 2009.
- Alain Badiou, The Philosophers' Magazine, 46, May/June 2009.
- Charlotte Roche, Salon, 4 April 2009. Reprinted in the US paperback edition of Roche's Wetlands (HarperCollins).
- Jacques Rancière, ephemera (forthcoming).
Film and TV Appearances
- Marx Reloaded, April 2011, ZDF/Arte.
- Chronicles Of Protest[12], 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.
References
- ^ "Dr Nina Power - Roehampton University - School of Arts". http://roehampton.ac.uk/staff/NinaPower/.
- ^ in Mandy Merck and Stella Sandford, Further Adventures of the Dialectic of Sex"", Palgrave Macmillan, July 2010 ISBN 978-0-230-10029-9
- ^ in Noise And Capitalism http://www.arteleku.net/audiolab/noise_capitalism.pdf
- ^ in Film Quarterly http://www.filmquarterly.org/?p=853
- ^ "Axiomatic equality - Nina Power Rancière and the politics of contemporary education". Eurozine. http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-07-01-power-en.html. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
- ^ "Salon.com Author Profile". http://www.salon.com/author/nina_power/index.html. Retrieved 2011-03-5.
- ^ "news from the zona Review of One Dimensional Woman". http://newsfromthezona.blogspot.com/2009/12/review-of-one-dimensional-woman.html. Retrieved 2011-03-5.
- ^ "flowtv.org/2008/10/sarah-palin-castration-as-plenitude-nina-power-roehampton-university/". http://flowtv.org/2008/10/sarah-palin-castration-as-plenitude-nina-power-roehampton-university/.
- ^ "One Dimensional Woman by Nina Power : O-Books Publishing". O-books.com. http://www.o-books.com/obookssite/book/detail/354. Retrieved 2010-08-15.
- ^ Bidisha "One Dimensional Woman/Living Dolls (review)", New Statesman, 8 February 2010
- ^ Siân Ruddick "Fighting for women’s liberation today," International Socialism, No.126 [Spring 2010
- ^ "Chronicles Of Protest". http://www.chronicleofprotest-thefilm.co.uk/. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
External links
- Interview, frieze
- Power's staff page at Roehampton University
- Infinite Thought blog.
- Profile at guardian.co.uk, including an archive of articles.
Categories:- Alumni of Middlesex University
- British feminists
- British philosophers
- French–English translators
- Living people
- Women philosophers
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