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Alongside other experienced fiction/non-fiction writers and editors, I’m launching a new service, Insensitivity Readers, to provide honest feedback on your manuscript/idea for a reasonable fee. We can provide line editing and/or general constructive feedback, as well as publishing advice – whatever you need! Please contact me at ninapower[at]gmail[dot]com and I’ll get back to you asContinue reading “Insensitivity Readers!”

The vast majority of my new writing/projects/links to podcasts can be and will be found on my Substack, which can be found here. Many things planned for 2025!

I’m teaching again at Mary Ward Centre (Stratford, East London). Friday afternoons 2-4pm, starts Oct 4th. Email ninapower[at]gmail[dot]com with any questions. It’s an in-person course on the Philosophy of Nature, in lecture/seminar format. We’ll start with the Greeks, esp. Aristotle, Lucretius, Aquinas, Spinoza, Kant (including the ether hypothesis of the late Opus Postumum!), Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hegel and theContinue reading “Autumn 2024: Teaching”

[This was originally published in 2019] What you really just want to say is – you can’t be friends with this person. Why can’t you be friends with this person? Because ‘we’ have cancelled them already – didn’t you get the memo! – because we – this fragile cobweb called something like ‘the left’ orContinue reading “Cancelled”

[This was originally published in 2019] I had originally decided not to respond to the bafflingly stupid and anonymous ‘Open Letter’ following the youtube stream I participated in with Justin Murphy and DC Miller on 28th Feb (which you can watch here if you want to see 1hr 30 of three people sitting in myContinue reading

I’ll be teaching a four-week course at Verdurin, a new art space in East London in August. Details can be found here. No previous experience needed!

The future turned out to be…well what exactly? Having imagined everything from off-world mining to governments run by horses, it turns out that we’d rather spend our time watching ourselves. If the twentieth century space race strove to understand outer space, today’s ambitions are rather more inner-directed. The quest for individuality has descended into theContinue reading “From Cliché to the World”

[This is a longer version of a piece that was published in The Critic as “In a World Without God, What Does Suicide Mean?”] [All photographs mine] Nina Power & Pierre d’Alancaisez If life becomes unliveable, who would you turn to? A friend? A doctor? A priest? Today we no longer imagine ourselves God’s creation,Continue reading “Piece on Suicide”

A Greek goat, Summer 2023: there are, apparently, more than a hundred references in the Bible to goats, mostly positive… I really should update this site more often… In any case, here are some forthcoming events. I’m co-organising two evening talks on the planets at the excellent British Interplanetary Society. There’s one on November 9th,Continue reading “Forthcoming Events/Talks/Courses”

I’ll be teaching an in-person course at Mary Ward Centre (42 Queen Square) on Friday afternoons 1-3pm from Jan 20th – March 31st 2023. The details and sign-up can be found here.