Nina Power is a philosopher and activist whose writings span European philosophy, politics, art, film, and literature.

^[1]She is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Humanities at the University of Roehampton in London, where she teaches Philosophy.

^[0]A regular contributor to journals and magazines such as *New Statesman *, *The Guardian *, ^[2]*New Humanist *, *Cabinet *, *Radical Philosophy *, and *The Philosophers' Magazine *, Power’s writings have also appeared in *Theory and Event *, parallax, *boundary 2 *, Critical Horizons, Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, and Subject Matters: A Journal of Communication and the Self, as well as numerous anthologies.

Power is author of the acclaimed One-Dimensional Woman (2009) and, with Alberto Toscano, co-editor and translator of Alain Badiou's On Beckett (2003).

^[0]She is also a founding member of the campaign group Defend the Right to Protest and corresponding editor for Historical Materialism.

Power lives and works in London.

She is currently working on two book-length projects – one on the topic of work and the other on the history of the collective political subject.

She is also working on a number of more experimental collaborations with artists and writers.

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Nina Power received her PhD in Philosophy from Middlesex University on the topic of Humanism and Anti-Humanism in Post-War French Philosophy, and also has an MA and BA in Philosophy from Warwick.

She has taught at Middlesex, Orpington College, London College of Communication, Morley College and University of Roehampton, where she is also currently a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy.

She is a fellow of the RSA and a member of the British Philosophical Association.

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