Author Archives: Nina Power

I’m teaching a new Adult Ed course. Register here. The course will provide a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of risk. It will examine the topic from a variety of different philosophical perspectives that will in turn operate as a way into understanding broader philosophical areas and questions. In this regard over twelve weeks, weContinue reading “Philosophy of Risk Course, Online, Mary Ward 28th September-14th December, Mondays 1-3pm”

Platforms, available here, from the excellent Morbid Books.

The Art of the Incel for the Spectator, 13th June 2020

Within a few minutes the next attack will begin. Now that I am surrounded for the first time by all the members of my family it seems only fitting that a complete record should be made of this unique event. As I lie here – barely able to breathe, my mouth filled with blood andContinue reading “THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT – J G Ballard”

For ‘Helping Yourself 2020’, by Caribic Care.

[This text was written the night of 11th December 2019] Mood in advance of tomorrow – judgement in Alfie’s case expected, general election, forecast rain – dystopian, fatalistic, thinking about Edmund Burke, Margaret Thatcher, the English countryside I grew up in, the conservatism of the country, its separations and splits, its fractures and perennial classContinue reading “Election 2019 Eve”

[Text from April 2007] We have now not only travelled through the land of pure understanding, and carefully inspected each part of it, but we have also surveyed it, and determined the place for each thing in it. This land, however, is an island, and enclosed in unalterable boundaries by nature itself. It is theContinue reading “Transcendental Horror: Kant avec Lovecraft”

[Note: this is the Dissertation I wrote for my Birkbeck LLB, which concluded in 2016. It touches on matters of the definition of, and political and policing implications of the term ‘public’ as it appears in Public Order law in England & Wales. In the background are the experiences I personally had campaigning with DefendContinue reading “Who is the Public of ‘Public Order’? Sovereignty, Citizenship and the Commons”

[from 2011] THEORY OF DANCE (in eleven theses) Nina Power So Mårten is all like ‘write something for my dance thing’ and I’m like, ‘I don’t know anything about dance!’ and he says, ‘yeah I know, write some theory or something!’ and I’m like ‘No! I wanna write about dance! I’m sick of theory!’ SoContinue reading “Theory of Dance”

What will our wager with the universe be? The more exhausted we are the more we look for signs. Or at least, the more signs take on a meaning for us. Where sometimes we are protected by a thin veneer of distance, the universe can always pour in. How can we make sense of thisContinue reading “The Mechanics of Fate”