Nina Power

Nina Power is an English writer and philosopher. She has formerly worked as a columnist and senior editor for the online magazine Compact.

Biography
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.

Some of the publications she regularly contributes to are The Telegraph and The Spectator. She previously regularly contributed to The Wire and The Guardian.

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.

In 2019, Power and Daniel Miller, a writer and editor of the far-right IM-1776 magazine, sued artist Luke Turner for defamation over a series of tweets by Turner. Power and Miller argued the tweets suggested they were both antisemitic. Turner said he was "in terror of the volume and virulence of online abuse directed towards him" from the controversy. 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. The judge dismissed the claims of both parties in November 2023.

She was a senior editor of and columnist for the online magazine Compact until her resignation in July 2024.

Political views
In May 2023, Power spoke at the National Conservatism Conference in London on the topic "After the Individual."

Some of her works have argued for a "return to old values and virtues", especially as a response to a claimed masculinity crisis.

In response to her work, activists from Warwick Anti-Sexism Society have protested some of her speaking arrangements, calling her a "TERF". Power has claimed "Men who purport to be women are not victims of violence” when asked about violence against transgender people.

Books
Authored books


 * One Dimensional Woman (Winchester: Zero Books, 2009)
 * Translated into French as La Femme Unidimensionnelle by Nicolas Vieillescazes (Paris: Les Prairies Ordinaires, 2010).
 * Translated into Turkish as "Tek Boyutlu Kadin" by Özlem Kaya (Istanbul: Habitus Kitap, 2010).
 * Translated into German as "Die eindimensionale Frau" by Anna-Sophie Springer (Berlin: Merve, 2011).
 * Translated into Italian by Cecilia Savi as "La donna a una dimensione" (Rome: DeriveApprodi, 2011).
 * Translated into Spanish by Teresa Arijón as "La mujer unidimensional" (Buenos Aires: Cruce Casa Editora, 2016) ISBN 978-987-45637-5-0.
 * Translated into Korean by SeongJun Kim as "Dodukmajeun Feminism" (Seoul: Editus, 2018).
 * Platforms (Morbid Books, 2020)
 * What Do Men Want? (UK: Penguin, 2021)

Translated books


 * (with Alberto Toscano), Alain Badiou, On Beckett. (London: Clinamen Press, 2003)

Film appearances

 * Marx Reloaded, ZDF/Arte, April 2011.