Author Archives: Nina Power

  [Picture from Debrett’s site, advertising training courses on debate] [This is a version of a text that was originally published in Strike! magazine in 2015] Nina Power O thou Powers of England, though thou hast promised to make this People a Free People, yet thou hast so handled the matter, through thy self-seeking humour, That thouContinue reading “It’s not a Debate, it’s a War!”

[This piece was originally written for Loops magazine, which I think just stopped at some point before they published the issue that this was written for] Folk doesn’t need Reviving! Nina Power The English countryside appears to enjoying something of a revival of late. Patrick Keiller’s Robinson in Ruins (2010) delves into the dark arts ofContinue reading “Piece on the Folk Revival, 2010”

[Illustration: Andrzej Krauze used to illustrate my article, ‘Defending Rights against the Rights, published in Red Pepper in February 2015] Articles and reviews can be found here.

[Photograph used to illustrate ‘Bamboozle, Baffle and Blindside’, my piece on the 60th anniversary of the publication of Orwell’s 1984, published May 2009] Various pieces can be found here.

Various reviews and articles can be found here.

[photo of a Cops Off Campus demo, by Paul Davey/ Paul Davey/Demotix/Corbis, used to illustrate my article ‘Lecturers must stand with students to preserve the right to protest’, published December 2013] Various articles, mainly for Comment is Free, can be found here.

Various reviews and articles can be found here.

Existence and Death Alain Badiou, Nina Power and Alberto Toscano Discourse Vol. 24, No. 1, Mortals to Death (Winter 2002), pp. 63-73 A translation of a short text by Alain Badiou on questions of existence and death that discusses Descartes, Sartre, Kant, Cantor, Spinoza. [Complete text follows below]