Nina Power
Biographic Data
| ID | 304491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nina Power |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nina |
| FAMILY NAME | Power |
| SIGNATURE | POWER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Roehampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3245-3234 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Revisiting Second Wave Feminism in the Light of Recent Controversies
This paper revisits elements of second wave feminism—in its psychoanalytic, radical, materialist, Marxist and deconstructionist aspects—the better to understand how it is we might define sexual difference today. The vexed question of sexuation, of what it means to be a woman in particular has today generated great tensions at the theoretical, legal and philosophical level. This paper is an attempt to return to aspects of the second wave—an unfini…
Modern European Philosophy
This chapter considers four texts by Italian thinkers that were published in English translation in 2016, although some of the texts under discussion date back to earlier periods: Giorgio Agamben’s The Use of Bodies (originally published in Italian in 2014, and consisting of texts written over the course of the last twenty years), Gianni Vattimo’s Of Reality: The Purposes of Philosophy (first published in Italian in 2012, and based on two series …
Reading Social Reproduction into Reading Capital
Society without Opposition
This text seeks to read Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man and Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism together in the context of what Marcuse calls the 'society without opposition'.It seeks to extract a conception of hope as method from within these two otherwise rather bleak analyses.This shared conception of hope is understood as the attempt to speak from a conception of capitalism as hell, and to continue to speak anyway.The text concludes by def…
Modern European Philosophy
This chapter considers two inter-related themes that dominated modern European philosophy in 2015. The first concerns some of the oldest questions of political philosophy—civil war, violence, citizenship—in the light of recent political developments in the form of global mass protest and uprisings. The second theme examines the focus on relations and relationality as attempts to both restore the role of the body to philosophy and to present an on…
Modern European Philosophy
This chapter considers key texts, arguments and themes that took place in modern European philosophy in 2013–14. With a focus on the ‘revenge of rationalism’ the chapter explicitly discusses the work of Knox Peden, Tom Eyers, Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Maurizio Lazzarato, Frédéric Lordon, Peter Sloterdijk and debates around ‘Accelerationism’. In particularly it focuses on the various readings of Spinoza that underpin these various philosop…
Reading Transdisciplinarily
This article considers transdisciplinarity from the standpoint of reading and readers, rather than as a collection of texts, concepts or proper names. It argues that the humanism and anti-humanism debates of the 1950s and 1960s, particularly understood through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser, was above all a debate about the politics of reading. Understanding transdisciplinarity to relate to a projected model of post-disciplinari…
Marcuse and Feminism Revisited
This paper examines Marcuse’s complex relationship to feminism, both in his own time and today. It examines Marcuse’s celebration of and comments on the feminism of his time alongside Ellen Willis’s criticisms of Marcuse’s characterization of consumerism as “feminized.” The paper suggests that the widespread “one-dimensionality” of Marcuse’s 1964 diagnosis remains an apt diagnostic tool when the continued exploitation of women in many ways includ…
Dangerous Subjects
This essay seeks to examine the constructed nature of the UK student as seen through the eyes of the media and the legal system following the protests and occupations that took place in late 2010 and 2011. It examines the events of this period and argues that although some of the students' demands were necessarily reformist (saving rather than exiting the university), their collective punishment and negative solidarity provides a model for contem…
Motherhood in France
This article examines the relationship between feminism, queer theory and the rise of popular debate over maternity and anti-maternity that has arisen in recent years in France. Through the image of 'queer maternity', that is to say, of women who question motherhood from the position of already having had children, the article tries to rethink the way in which feminism, queer theory and motherhood could be placed in relation to one another such t…
Potentiality or Capacity?— Agamben's Missing Subjects
Potentiality or Capacity?— Agamben's Missing Subjects Nina Power (bio) Discussions of the link between practice and action in European thought in recent years have come to resemble something of a merry-go-round, circulating between optimistic ontologies and pessimistic diagnoses, celebrations of passivity and predictions of activity. Changes in the nature of work and attempts to keep up with, diagnose or explain various forms of social resistance…
One Dimensional Woman
This book was conceived as a polemical intervention into recent debates about feminism in a period in which the word has been used to justify everything from the sale of beauty products to the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. Its title is a parodic homage to Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man (1964), and shares some of his fusion of Marxist and psychoanalytic approaches, but with its emphasis on contemporary images of womanhood in films, adve…
Which Anarchism? On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Infinity for (Political) Life
This paper questions whether Critchley's ethical project can adequately talk about anarchism without acknowledging the critiques that political position has of philosophy. It argues that Critchley is too quick to dismiss "philosophical anthropology" as a way of understanding the link between politics and a certain notion of infinity. By a comparison of Noam Chomsky and Emmanuel Levinas, it attempts to show that there is a way of conceiving politi…
Which Equality? Badiou and Rancière in Light of Ludwig Feuerbach
The Philosophy of Restoration
Alain Badiou has defined his philosophical project in terms of the attempt to account for the abandonment and betrayal of the revolutionary impetus in the 1970s. This article examines this contention by tracking the way in which the definition of different antipolitical or anti-emancipatory figures plays a crucial role in the development of Badiou's theory of political subjectivity. How are we to think subjects which oppose, betray, or neutralize…
Bachelard contra bergson
Dangerous Subjects
This essay seeks to examine the constructed nature of the UK student as seen through the eyes of the media and the legal system following the protests and occupations that took place in late 2010 and 2011. It examines the events of this period and argues that although some of the students' demands were necessarily reformist (saving rather than exiting the university), their collective punishment and negative solidarity provides a model for contem…
Which Equality? Badiou and Rancière in Light of Ludwig Feuerbach
Reading Transdisciplinarily
This article considers transdisciplinarity from the standpoint of reading and readers, rather than as a collection of texts, concepts or proper names. It argues that the humanism and anti-humanism debates of the 1950s and 1960s, particularly understood through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser, was above all a debate about the politics of reading. Understanding transdisciplinarity to relate to a projected model of post-disciplinari…
Motherhood in France
This article examines the relationship between feminism, queer theory and the rise of popular debate over maternity and anti-maternity that has arisen in recent years in France. Through the image of 'queer maternity', that is to say, of women who question motherhood from the position of already having had children, the article tries to rethink the way in which feminism, queer theory and motherhood could be placed in relation to one another such t…
The Philosophy of Restoration
Alain Badiou has defined his philosophical project in terms of the attempt to account for the abandonment and betrayal of the revolutionary impetus in the 1970s. This article examines this contention by tracking the way in which the definition of different antipolitical or anti-emancipatory figures plays a crucial role in the development of Badiou's theory of political subjectivity. How are we to think subjects which oppose, betray, or neutralize…
Bachelard contra bergson
Bachelard contra bergson
One Dimensional Woman
This book was conceived as a polemical intervention into recent debates about feminism in a period in which the word has been used to justify everything from the sale of beauty products to the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. Its title is a parodic homage to Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man (1964), and shares some of his fusion of Marxist and psychoanalytic approaches, but with its emphasis on contemporary images of womanhood in films, adve…
Which Anarchism? On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Infinity for (Political) Life
This paper questions whether Critchley's ethical project can adequately talk about anarchism without acknowledging the critiques that political position has of philosophy. It argues that Critchley is too quick to dismiss "philosophical anthropology" as a way of understanding the link between politics and a certain notion of infinity. By a comparison of Noam Chomsky and Emmanuel Levinas, it attempts to show that there is a way of conceiving politi…
Which Equality? Badiou and Rancière in Light of Ludwig Feuerbach
The Philosophy of Restoration
Alain Badiou has defined his philosophical project in terms of the attempt to account for the abandonment and betrayal of the revolutionary impetus in the 1970s. This article examines this contention by tracking the way in which the definition of different antipolitical or anti-emancipatory figures plays a crucial role in the development of Badiou's theory of political subjectivity. How are we to think subjects which oppose, betray, or neutralize…
Potentiality or Capacity?— Agamben's Missing Subjects
Potentiality or Capacity?— Agamben's Missing Subjects Nina Power (bio) Discussions of the link between practice and action in European thought in recent years have come to resemble something of a merry-go-round, circulating between optimistic ontologies and pessimistic diagnoses, celebrations of passivity and predictions of activity. Changes in the nature of work and attempts to keep up with, diagnose or explain various forms of social resistance…
Dangerous Subjects
This essay seeks to examine the constructed nature of the UK student as seen through the eyes of the media and the legal system following the protests and occupations that took place in late 2010 and 2011. It examines the events of this period and argues that although some of the students' demands were necessarily reformist (saving rather than exiting the university), their collective punishment and negative solidarity provides a model for contem…
Motherhood in France
This article examines the relationship between feminism, queer theory and the rise of popular debate over maternity and anti-maternity that has arisen in recent years in France. Through the image of 'queer maternity', that is to say, of women who question motherhood from the position of already having had children, the article tries to rethink the way in which feminism, queer theory and motherhood could be placed in relation to one another such t…
Marcuse and Feminism Revisited
This paper examines Marcuse’s complex relationship to feminism, both in his own time and today. It examines Marcuse’s celebration of and comments on the feminism of his time alongside Ellen Willis’s criticisms of Marcuse’s characterization of consumerism as “feminized.” The paper suggests that the widespread “one-dimensionality” of Marcuse’s 1964 diagnosis remains an apt diagnostic tool when the continued exploitation of women in many ways includ…
Modern European Philosophy
This chapter considers key texts, arguments and themes that took place in modern European philosophy in 2013–14. With a focus on the ‘revenge of rationalism’ the chapter explicitly discusses the work of Knox Peden, Tom Eyers, Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Maurizio Lazzarato, Frédéric Lordon, Peter Sloterdijk and debates around ‘Accelerationism’. In particularly it focuses on the various readings of Spinoza that underpin these various philosop…
Reading Transdisciplinarily
This article considers transdisciplinarity from the standpoint of reading and readers, rather than as a collection of texts, concepts or proper names. It argues that the humanism and anti-humanism debates of the 1950s and 1960s, particularly understood through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser, was above all a debate about the politics of reading. Understanding transdisciplinarity to relate to a projected model of post-disciplinari…
Modern European Philosophy
This chapter considers two inter-related themes that dominated modern European philosophy in 2015. The first concerns some of the oldest questions of political philosophy—civil war, violence, citizenship—in the light of recent political developments in the form of global mass protest and uprisings. The second theme examines the focus on relations and relationality as attempts to both restore the role of the body to philosophy and to present an on…
Modern European Philosophy
This chapter considers four texts by Italian thinkers that were published in English translation in 2016, although some of the texts under discussion date back to earlier periods: Giorgio Agamben’s The Use of Bodies (originally published in Italian in 2014, and consisting of texts written over the course of the last twenty years), Gianni Vattimo’s Of Reality: The Purposes of Philosophy (first published in Italian in 2012, and based on two series …
Reading Social Reproduction into Reading Capital
Society without Opposition
This text seeks to read Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man and Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism together in the context of what Marcuse calls the 'society without opposition'.It seeks to extract a conception of hope as method from within these two otherwise rather bleak analyses.This shared conception of hope is understood as the attempt to speak from a conception of capitalism as hell, and to continue to speak anyway.The text concludes by def…
Revisiting Second Wave Feminism in the Light of Recent Controversies
This paper revisits elements of second wave feminism—in its psychoanalytic, radical, materialist, Marxist and deconstructionist aspects—the better to understand how it is we might define sexual difference today. The vexed question of sexuation, of what it means to be a woman in particular has today generated great tensions at the theoretical, legal and philosophical level. This paper is an attempt to return to aspects of the second wave—an unfini…
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