Nina Power
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Nina Power is an English writer and philosopher. She is a senior editor of and columnist for the online magazine Compact.[1] She has been noted for her anti-transgender views and links to the far right.[2][3]
Power received a PhD in philosophy from Middlesex University on the topic of humanism and antihumanism in postwar French philosophy, and also has an MA and BA in philosophy from the University of Warwick. She was a senior lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University, and has taught at Middlesex, Orpington College, London College of Communication, Morley College. Power also worked as a tutor in critical writing in art and design at the Royal College of Art, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the British Philosophical Association.
She served as both editor and translator (with Alberto Toscano) of Alain Badiou's On Beckett.[4]
Some of the publications she regularly contributes to are The Telegraph and The Spectator.[5][6] She previously regularly contributed to The Wire and The Guardian.[7][8]
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.[citation needed]
In May 2023, Power spoke at the National Conservatism Conference in London on the topic "After the Individual."[9]
Books[edit]
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) ISBN 978-987-45637-5-0.
- Translated into Korean by SeongJun Kim as "Dodukmajeun Feminism" (Seoul: Editus, 2018).
- What Do Men Want? UK: Penguin, 2021.[10]
Translated books
- (with Alberto Toscano), Alain Badiou, On Beckett. London: Clinamen Press, 2003.
Film appearances[edit]
- Marx Reloaded, ZDF/Arte, April 2011.
References[edit]
- ^ "Nina Power". Compact Magazine.
- ^ Hurihanganui, Te Aniwa (10 November 2020). "Activist group calls out neo-Nazi symbols at Auckland art exhibition". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- ^ McAllister, Ana (29 November 2020). "First Clear the Weeds, then Plant". The Pantograph Punch. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- ^ https://culturalstudies.ucsc.edu/2008/04/02/april-2-2008-alberto-toscano-nina-power-the-philosophy-of-the-restoration-badiou-on-revisionists-reactionaries-renegades/
- ^ "Nina Power". The Telegraph. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- ^ "Nina Power". The Spectator. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- ^ "Nina Power". The Wire. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- ^ "Nina Power". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- ^ "Nina Power". National Conservatism Conference, UK 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
- ^ POWER, NINA. (2021). WHAT DO MEN WANT? : an inquiry into love, sex and power. [S.l.]: ALLEN LANE. ISBN 978-0-241-35650-0. OCLC 1224513235.
External links[edit]
- Power's profile at the Guardian newspaper website
- Power's profile at Zero Books
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