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Author Archives: Nina Power
‘Once You Start Listening You Can’t Stop Hearing It’
[Piece for The Wire’s issue 352 on ‘Words and Music’, June 2013]. Nina Power Once you start listening you can’t stop hearing it. The voice – female, or female-sounding at least, pre-recorded ‘real’ voices or mechanised tones, or, often, a weird cut-up mixture of both, dominates the sonic landscape. From the supermarket checkout machines withContinue reading “‘Once You Start Listening You Can’t Stop Hearing It’”
Soft Coercion, the City and the Recorded Female Voice
[A version of this text was published in The Acoustic City, edited by Matthew Gandy and BJ Nilsen, JOVIS Publishers, 2014) Four questions to begin with: What is the pitch of the neoliberal city? How does the pitch of the city construct images of and for the humanity that travels through it? How does gender relate to controlContinue reading “Soft Coercion, the City and the Recorded Female Voice”
Towards a Feminism of the Void
In October 2015, Audrey Wollen posted a picture on Instagram with the message ‘a PSA brought to u by ur local chapter of Female Nothingness’. The picture comprises a black and white composite image with the words BEWARE MALE ARTISTS MAKING ARTWORK ABOUT EMPTINESS/NOTHING DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU/GIRLS OWN THE VOID/BACK OFF FUCKERS!!!!Continue reading “Towards a Feminism of the Void”
Some New Pieces
Image of Nazi typewriter, including the ‘SS’ symbol (accompanies the e-flux article) I haven’t updated in a while. In the meantime, there are quite a few new recent pieces available on and offline (links where available). From the end of last year, a piece I wrote entitled ‘Philosophy, Sexism, Emotionalism, Rationalism’ was published in theContinue reading “Some New Pieces”
SUBVERSIVE PASOLINI: LA RICOTTA AND THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW—A DISCUSSION
with Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and Nina Power [Note: this dialogue took place in 2012-13. It was due to be published by a film magazine, but fell through for reasons beyond the control of the authors. Thank you to Geoffrey Nowell-Smith for permission to publish it here in 2017] Geoffrey Nowell-Smith: Pasolini has often been described as aContinue reading “SUBVERSIVE PASOLINI: LA RICOTTA AND THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW—A DISCUSSION”
‘Had We but World Enough, and Time’: A Response to Adam Kotsko on the Western Canon
I wrote a response for Australian Humanities Review to Adam Kotsko’s piece ‘What is the Western Canon Good for?’ which can be found here.
Radical Empathy: Politics and Emotion
‘Radical Empathy: Politics and Emotion’ (this text is the basis for a talk I gave at Roehampton on 9th November 2016, the day of the election of Donald Trump as US President) by Nina Power Thank you for coming. What I want to talk about today is part of a projected bigger project (or atContinue reading “Radical Empathy: Politics and Emotion”
The Law, The Cop and The Subject
On Althusser, ideology, policing and the law for the LA Review of Books.
‘The Purloined Gender’: Piece for E.R.O.S. (2013)
[This is a slightly edited version of a text that appeared in Volume 3 of E.R.O.S. Journal in 2013] ‘The Purloined Gender’ ‘The problem, simply stated, is that one must believe in the existence of the person in order to recognize the authenticity of her suffering. Neither men nor women believe in the existence ofContinue reading “‘The Purloined Gender’: Piece for E.R.O.S. (2013)”
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