Goldsmiths - University of London

Amedeo Policante

Academic qualifications

- PhD Candidate, Department of Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London

- MA with merit (Goldsmiths): Cultural Studies

- MA, BA (Bologna): Political Theory and International Relations

Teaching

- Discourse, Power, Politics

Conferences

Conference Papers

-  Policante, A. and Tazzioli, M. "Foucault on drugs: between economisation and medicalisation of pleasure". Radical Foucault: An International Conference, Centre For Cultural Studies Research, University of East London, September 8-9, 2011.

- Policante, A. “The Biopolitics of Free Trade: Grain, Oil and the Hostis. Humani Generis. Doux Commerce Perpetual Peace and the Securitization of the World Market”, Reading Michel Foucault in the Postcolonial Present : A Symposium, University of Bologna, Italy, March 3-4, 2011.

- Policante A. “Anarchism, Nomadism and the Working Class: Lessons from Deleuze” The Libertarian Impulse: Theories, Histories, Comparisons. RUPE Seminar series 2009-2010, Goldsmiths College, 27 March 2009.

- Policante, A. "Between History and Myth: The Insurrectionary Experience of Time in Furio Jesi's Spartakus," Sixth Historical Materialism Annual Conference: 'Another World is Necessary: Crisis, Struggle and Political Alternatives', 27-29 November 2009.

- Policante, A. "Of Cameras and Balaclavas, Violence, Myth and the Convulsive Kettle", Interdisciplinary Workshop on ‘Disciplining Dissent’, Interdisciplinary Workshop on ‘Disciplining Dissent’, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol, 18-19 September 2009, University of Bristol,18th September 2009.

- Policante A. "Il Carnevale del Capitale: Possessioni Vampiriche e Soggettività Mostruose", La Grammatica Marxiana, Giornata di Studi. 14 Giugno 2009.

Editorial Work and Other Writings

- Collaborator of ‘Materiali Foucaultiani’ (http://www.materialfoucaultiani.org/)

- A number of short essays and fictional stories were recently published  in ‘Nyx: A nocturnal’, and, in Italian, in the literary magazine ‘Finzioni’.

Research interests

- Marxist and Anarchist Theory: Primitive accumulation, Nomadism, Subjectification
- Biopolitics, Bare Life and their relation with political geography
- Pirates, Social Bandits, Partisans and other figures of irregular warfare
- New Social Movements, direct democracy, direct action

Selected publications

Chapters in edited volumes: 

- Policante A. "After the event: the mythical representation of violence", in Situating Global Resistance: Between Discipline and Dissent. Ed., Lara Coleman and Karen Tucker. Routledge Press, 2011.

Refereed Journal articles:

- Policante, A. “Vampires of Capital: Gothic Reflections between Horror and Hope”, The Cultural Logic, forthcoming.

- Policante, A. “Franciscan Profanators: or the radical pacifism of a broken window”, Nyx: A nocturnal, Issue 5, 2011.

- Policante A. “Foucault, Subjectivity and Flight: Witchcraft, Possession and the Resistance of the Flesh”, Material Foucaultiani, forthcoming. [also in Italian as “Foucault, Soggettività e Volo: Stregoneria, Possessione e la Resistenza della Carne” in Materiali Foucaultiani, forthcoming].

- Policante, A. “The myth of student violence”, Nyx: A nocturnal, Issue 4, 2011.

- Policante, A. "Of Cameras and Balaclavas: Violence, Myth and the Convulsive Kettle", Globalizations, 8.4, September 2011: 457-471. (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14747731.2011.585848#preview)

- Policante, A. “Note on Labour”, Nyx: A nocturnal, Issue 3, 2010.

- Policante, A. “War against Biopower: Timely Reflections on an Historicist Foucault", Theory & Event, 13.1 March 2010. (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/summary/v013/13.1.policante.html)

- Policante, A. "Guerra e Spazi Politici: Compagnie Militari Private al tempo della globalizzazione", Teoria e Critica, Marzo 2008.