Greg Bird
Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
International Advisory Board, Italian Thought Network
Coordinator, Techne: WLU Biopolitical Research Group
Editorial Board, for Materiali IT (Quodlibet), Shift/Philosophical Series (Mimesis International), and Shift: International Journal of Philosophical Studies
Visiting Researcher, Roma Tre (2018), Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (2015), Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane in Naples, Italy (2014)
Greg Bird is an Associate Professor, Cultural Analysis and Social Theory MA Program and the Department of Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. His research focuses on the biopolitical, ontological, and political-economic vectors of the dispositif of the proper. He is an International Advisory Board member of the Italian Thought Network and the Coordinator of Techne: WLU Biopolitical Research Group. His articles and chapter on biopolitics, contemporary social and political theory, and Italian theory have appeared in English and Italian. His book Containing Community: From Political Economy to Ontology in Agamben, Esposito, and Nancy (SUNY Press 2016) won the 2017 Symposium Book Award (Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy). He has co-edited Community, Immunity, and the Proper: Roberto Esposito (Routledge 2015), Unlimit: Rethinking the Boundaries Between Philosophy, Aesthetics and Arts (Mimesis 2018), and a forthcoming issue of the European Journal of Social Theory (2019).
Address: Department of Sociology,
Wilfrid Laurier University,
DAWB 5-136,
Waterloo, ON,
Canada - N2L 3C5
International Advisory Board, Italian Thought Network
Coordinator, Techne: WLU Biopolitical Research Group
Editorial Board, for Materiali IT (Quodlibet), Shift/Philosophical Series (Mimesis International), and Shift: International Journal of Philosophical Studies
Visiting Researcher, Roma Tre (2018), Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (2015), Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane in Naples, Italy (2014)
Greg Bird is an Associate Professor, Cultural Analysis and Social Theory MA Program and the Department of Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. His research focuses on the biopolitical, ontological, and political-economic vectors of the dispositif of the proper. He is an International Advisory Board member of the Italian Thought Network and the Coordinator of Techne: WLU Biopolitical Research Group. His articles and chapter on biopolitics, contemporary social and political theory, and Italian theory have appeared in English and Italian. His book Containing Community: From Political Economy to Ontology in Agamben, Esposito, and Nancy (SUNY Press 2016) won the 2017 Symposium Book Award (Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy). He has co-edited Community, Immunity, and the Proper: Roberto Esposito (Routledge 2015), Unlimit: Rethinking the Boundaries Between Philosophy, Aesthetics and Arts (Mimesis 2018), and a forthcoming issue of the European Journal of Social Theory (2019).
Address: Department of Sociology,
Wilfrid Laurier University,
DAWB 5-136,
Waterloo, ON,
Canada - N2L 3C5
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Books by Greg Bird
“In this book, Greg Bird identifies and radically conceptualizes being-with as the problematic node that connects thinkers who in other respects are quite diverse such as Agamben, Esposito, and Nancy. His interpretation, acute and rigorous, illuminates in an admirable fashion a decisive passage of contemporary thought.” — Roberto Esposito, author of Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community
“In this exceptional book, Greg Bird offers for the first time in English a rigorous account of the common philosophical origins of Nancy, Agamben and Esposito’s work on community. By emphasizing the centrality of the proper in the ontology of being in common and tracing it back to Heidegger, Bird places Nancy, Agamben, and Esposito at the center of contemporary economico-political philosophical debates.” — María del Rosario Acosta López, DePaul University
“In Containing Community Greg Bird asks how we might imagine community in such a way that ‘being’ and not ‘having’ comes to the fore. His answer, contained across some truly marvelous readings of Proudhon, Marx, Heidegger, and then Nancy, Agamben, and Esposito surprises and delights especially for his take-down of the proprietary prejudice featured so frequently in how we conceive of community. It also happens to be one of the best books to appear in recent memory on Italian thought.” — Timothy C. Campbell, author of Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben.
Biopolitics & Pandemics by Greg Bird
https://www.utpjournals.press/journals/topia/covid-19-essays
Articles/Book Chapters by Greg Bird
Chapter 5 in "Biopolitical Governance: Race, Gender and Economy," H. Richter (ed.), London: Roman & Littlefield, pp. 99-120.
Edited Books by Greg Bird
This collection introduces Esposito’s work to a wider English-speaking audience and provides many important contributions to the burgeoning scholarship on his political theory. Important international scholars working in this area examine and analyze his theory from a variety of perspectives, including those of biopolitics, feminism, political theory, the history of philosophy (Spinoza, Hegel, Heidegger, and Jean-Luc Nancy), property, community, and gift economies. The collection also includes previously untranslated essays by Esposito and Jean-Luc Nancy. This collection will be of interest to those just discovering Esposito and for those who are already familiar with his work.
“In this book, Greg Bird identifies and radically conceptualizes being-with as the problematic node that connects thinkers who in other respects are quite diverse such as Agamben, Esposito, and Nancy. His interpretation, acute and rigorous, illuminates in an admirable fashion a decisive passage of contemporary thought.” — Roberto Esposito, author of Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community
“In this exceptional book, Greg Bird offers for the first time in English a rigorous account of the common philosophical origins of Nancy, Agamben and Esposito’s work on community. By emphasizing the centrality of the proper in the ontology of being in common and tracing it back to Heidegger, Bird places Nancy, Agamben, and Esposito at the center of contemporary economico-political philosophical debates.” — María del Rosario Acosta López, DePaul University
“In Containing Community Greg Bird asks how we might imagine community in such a way that ‘being’ and not ‘having’ comes to the fore. His answer, contained across some truly marvelous readings of Proudhon, Marx, Heidegger, and then Nancy, Agamben, and Esposito surprises and delights especially for his take-down of the proprietary prejudice featured so frequently in how we conceive of community. It also happens to be one of the best books to appear in recent memory on Italian thought.” — Timothy C. Campbell, author of Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben.
https://www.utpjournals.press/journals/topia/covid-19-essays
Chapter 5 in "Biopolitical Governance: Race, Gender and Economy," H. Richter (ed.), London: Roman & Littlefield, pp. 99-120.
This collection introduces Esposito’s work to a wider English-speaking audience and provides many important contributions to the burgeoning scholarship on his political theory. Important international scholars working in this area examine and analyze his theory from a variety of perspectives, including those of biopolitics, feminism, political theory, the history of philosophy (Spinoza, Hegel, Heidegger, and Jean-Luc Nancy), property, community, and gift economies. The collection also includes previously untranslated essays by Esposito and Jean-Luc Nancy. This collection will be of interest to those just discovering Esposito and for those who are already familiar with his work.
Conference Website: https://biopolitics2019.wordpress.com/
THE POLITICS OF LIFE: Rethinking Resistance in the Biopolitical Economy
Balsillie School of International Affairs,
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, ON
Saturday March 4, 2017
Hosts: Techne: Wilfrid Laurier University Biopolitical Research Group;
Cultural Analysis and Social Theory MA Program
Contacts: Greg Bird – gbird@wlu.ca (Coordinator, Techne: WLU Biopolitical Research Group); Sahver Kuzucuoglu - kuzu8180@mylaurier.ca (CAST MA Student & Conference Organizer); and Jalal Midani - mida5960@mylaurier.ca (CAST MA Student & Conference Organizer).