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Nina Power is an English writer and philosopher. She has formerly worked as a columnist and senior editor for the online magazine Compact .
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Nina Power is an English writer and philosopher. She has formerly worked as a columnist and senior editor for the online magazine Compact .
Power received a PhD in philosophy from Middlesex University on the topic of humanism and antihumanism in postwar French philosophy, and also has an MA and BA in philosophy from the University of Warwick. She was a senior lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University, and has taught at Middlesex, Orpington College, London College of Communication, Morley College. Power also worked as a tutor in critical writing in art and design at the Royal College of Art, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the British Philosophical Association.
She served as both editor and translator (with Alberto Toscano) of Alain Badiou's On Beckett. [1]
Some of the publications she regularly contributes to are The Telegraph and The Spectator . [2] [3] She previously regularly contributed to The Wire and The Guardian . [4] [5]
In 2015, she commissioned Bad Feelings by Arts Against Cuts, a collection of writing and 'set of materials for conflict and commonality' published by Book Works.[ citation needed ]
In 2019, Power and Daniel Miller (a writer and editor at alt-right magazine IM-1776 [6] [7] ) sued artist Luke Turner for defamation over a series of tweets by Turner. Power and Miller argued the tweets suggested they were both antisemitic. [8] Turner said he was "in terror of the volume and virulence of online abuse directed towards him" from the controversy. [8] Almost £30,000 was raised through a crowdfunder to support Power and Miller's legal action, titled "Targeted, harassed and falsely labelled a fascist". Turner countersued for harassment. [9] At trial, it emerged that Power had been writing anonymously for a far-right blog, Parallax Optics, [10] and had shared far-right conspiracy theories with Miller including the idea that black people and white people are different alien races. [11] The judge dismissed the claims of both parties in November 2023, and ordered Power and Miller to pay 80% of all Turner's court costs, with a first instalment of £250,000 due within a fortnight. [8] [11] Following this, Miller and Power were each declared bankrupt in February and July 2024 respectively. [11]
Power was a senior editor of and columnist for the online magazine Compact until her resignation in July 2024. [12] [13] [14] [15]
In May 2023, Power spoke at the National Conservatism Conference in London on the topic "After the Individual." [16]
Some of her works have argued for a "return to old values and virtues", especially as a response to a claimed masculinity crisis. [17] [18]
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