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Curriculum Vitae ~ Abridged Version

IDA DOMINIJANNI

Journalist and Independent Scholar

blog: idadominijanni.com

Biographical Data

Place of birth: Catanzaro, Italy

Citizenship: Italian

Work Experience

Academic

2001-2008 Visiting Professor of Political Theory at Roma Tre University, Rome.

2005-2006 Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Federico II University, Naples.

2004-2005 Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Verona, Verona.

2000-2001 Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome, Rome.

1996-1998 Visiting Professor of Political Theory at the University of Siena, Siena

Journalism and Communication

1982-2012 Journalist for the Daily Newspaper il manifesto. Positions: editor-in-chief of cultural pages and special issues; politics reporter; columnist; editorialist.

2009-2012 New analyst for the Tv Program ”L’Infedele”, La 7 Tv.

2001-2007 Freelancer for the online Journal “Golem l’indispensabile”.

1990-2007 Host of the Radio Program “Prima Pagina,” Italian Radio and Television (RAI).

1985-1987 Host for the Radio Program “Antologia di Radiotre,” Italian Radio and Television (RAI).

1981-2011 Freelancer for the feminist Magazines “Noidonne”, “Via Dogana”.

1981-1983 Editor-in-chief of the feminist Journal “L’Orsaminore”.

1981-1982 Director of the Radio Program “Noi voi loro donna,” Italian Radio and Television (RAI).

Education

1978-1980 Research Fellow at the National Center for Research (Cnr). Investigation on Corporative State in Fascist Italy.

1977 Laurea in Philosophy University of Florence.

Research Interests

Feminism, Philosophy, Psycoanalysis, Political Thought, Media Studies.

Selected Publications

Books

Forthcoming The Difference of the Italian Difference. Between Feminism and Biopolitics, Fordham, New York.

Il trucco. Sessualità e biopolitica nel tramonto del regime berlusconiano [The Trick. Sexuality and Biopower at the twilight of Berlusconi’s regime], manifestolibri, Roma.

Edited volumes

2005 Si può. Procreazione assistita: norme, soggetti, poste in gioco [You Can! Assisted Fertilization: Laws, Subjects and its Stakes], (co-edited with S.Bonsignori and S. Giorgi (eds.), manifestolibri, Roma.

2001 Motivi della libertà [Reasons of Freedom], Franco Angeli, Milano.

Book Chapters

2012 ”Populismo postedipico?” [Post-oedipal Populism?], in M. Baldassari e D. Melegari (eds.), Populismo e democrazia radicale, ombre corte, Verona: pp.156-172.

2009 ”Differenza Barack. Un caso di rivoluzione simbolica” [Obama’s Difference], in Vv. Aa., Passaggio Obama, Ediesse, Roma: pp. 29-53. .

2008 ”Matrix der Differenz. Zum Unterschied zwischen gender und sexueller Differenz” [Matrix of Differences. On the border between Sexual Difference and Gender Theory], in Rita Casale, Barbara Rendtorff (eds.), Was kommt nach der Genderforschung?Zur Zukunf der feministischen Theoriebildung, Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld: pp. 139-168.

2007 ”L’impronta indecidibile” [The Undecidable Imprint], in Diotima, L’ombra della madre, Liguori, Napoli: pp. 177-196.

2006 ”Eredi al tramonto. Fine della politica e politica della differenza” [Heiresses at Twilight. End of Politics and Politics of Difference], in Mario Tronti et al., Politica e destino, Sossella, Roma: pp.125-143. ”Lo stile della differenza” [The Style od Difference], in Alberto Martinengo (ed.), Figure del conflitto. Studi in onore di Giacomo Marramao, Valter Casini editore, Roma: pp. 343-352.

2005 ”Corpo e laicità: il caso della legge francese sul velo” [The Body and the Secular],in G. Preterossi (ed.), Le ragioni dei laici, Laterza, Roma- Bari: pp. 165-182.

”Giusta distanza” [The Right Distance],” Introduction to Slavoj Žižek, Distanza di sicurezza, manifestolibri, Roma: pp.7-11.

”Spettri meccanici” [Mechanical Spectres], in S. Bonsignori, I. Dominijanni, S. Giorgi (eds), Si può. Procreazione assistita: norme, soggetti, poste in gioco, manifestolibri, Roma: pp79-88

”Prima dei diritti” [Before Rights], in Marcello Tarì (ed.), Guerra e democrazia, manifestolibri, Roma: pp. 125-132.

2004 ”Politique du symbolique et liberté des femmes” [The Politics of the Symbolic and Women’s Freedom], in Christiane Veavy (ed.), Les Femmes dans l’espace public. Itinéraires français et italiens, Editions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, Le Fil d’Ariane, Université Paris 8, Parigi: pp.193-207.

”La scommessa della libertà femminile” [The Stakes of Female Freedom], in Fina Birulés & Marìa Isabel Peňa Aguado (eds.), La passiò per la llibertat. Acciò, passiò i politica. Controvèrsies feministes (A Passion for Freedom. Action, Passion and Politics. Feminist Controversies), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcellona: pp.45-52.

”Lost in transition”, in Susanna Scarparo & Rita Wilson (eds), Across Genres, Generations and Borders. Italian Women Writing Lives, University of Delaware Press, Newark: pp. 192-209.

2003 ”Il ritorno della sovranità assoluta” [The Return of Absolute Sovereignty], in Alberto Burgio (ed.), La forza e il diritto, Deriveapprodi, Roma: pp. 74- 84

2002 ”Nella piega del presente” [In the Fold of the Present], in Diotima, Approfittare dell’assenza, Liguori, Napoli: pp.187-212.

2001 ”L’eccedenza della libertà femminile” [The Excess of Female Freedom], in Ida Dominijanni (ed.), Motivi della libertà, Franco Angeli, Milano: pp. 47- 88.

Introduction, ivi: pp. 7-12.

”La parola è la nostra politica” [Language is our Politics], in A. Buttarelli, L. Muraro, L. Rampello (eds.), Duemilauna. Donne che cambiano l’Italia, Pratiche Editrice, Parma: pp. 207-215.

1999 ‘‘Dai padri alle madri” [From Fathers to Mothers], in VV.Aa., Il futuro del Novecento, manifestolibri, Roma: pp. 29-38.

1998 ”La parola del contatto’ [The Contact Word]’, Introduction to Luisa Muraro, Maglia o uncinetto, manifestolibri, Roma: pp. 7-50. [English translation forthcoming in The Other Mother, University of Minnesota Press].

1997 ”Le donne oltre la critica della politica” [Womens beyond the Critique of Politics], in Vv. Aa., Millenovecentosettantasette, manifestolibri, Roma: pp. 87-98.

1996 Introduction to Franco Carlini, Internet, Pinocchio e il gendarme. Le prospettive della democrazia in Rete, manifestolibri, Roma: pp.7-14 .

1995 ”Il desiderio di politica” [The Desire of Politics], Introduction to Lia Cigarini, La politica del desiderio, Pratiche Editrice, Parma: pp. 7-46.

1994. ”Oltre la logica della tutela” [Beyond Tutelage and its Logic]. in Paul Ginsborg (ed.), Stato dell’Italia, Il Saggiatore, Milano.

1993 ”La forbice tra critica e crisi” [The Gap between Critique and Crisis], in Isabella Peretti (ed.), Voce e silenzio. Le donne nella crisi politica degli anni Novanta, ESI, Roma: pp. 23-37.

1992 ”Politica del simbolico e mutamento” [Politics of the Symbolic and Transformation], in Aa. Vv., Cultura e politica delle donne e sinistra in Italia, Ed. IG, Roma: pp. 131-157.

1989. ”Il femminismo degli anni Ottanta. Un nodo: uguaglianza e differenza”[1980s Feminism. The Issue of Equality and Difference], in Annamaria Crispino (ed.), L’esperienza storica femminile nell’età moderna e contemporanea, vol. 2, Udi Ed., Roma: pp. 119-127.

1986. ”Una relazione speciale tra noi” [A Special Relationship among Us]. in S. Garroni, S. Neonato, S. Pietroforte (eds.), parole incrociate. Donne e comunicazione, Cooperativa Libera Stampa, Roma: pp. 62-66.

Essays in Journals

2013. ”Populism post-oedipien et démocratie néo-liberale. Le cas italien” [Post- oedipal Populism and Neo-liberal Democracy. The Italian Case], in Actuel Marx n. 54, Special Issue: ”Populism/ contre populism (E. Balibar and E. Renault Eds.), pp. 124-137.

”Diario di un viaggio elettorale” [Journal of an Electoral Journey], in Democrazia e diritto, n.3: pp. 332-346.

2012. ”Soggetto dell’inconscio, inconscio della politica” [The Subject of the Unconscious and the Unconscious of Politics], in Filosofia politica n.1, ”Soggetto/2”: pp. 25-37.

”Das Schielen der Venus. Die Krise der Politik aus der Sicht der Differenzpolitik” [Venus’s Strabismus. Looking at the Crisis of Politics from the Politics of Difference], in Inventionen n.2 (Isabel Lorey, R.Nigro, G.Raunig eds.): pp. 158-163.

2011. ”Wounds of the Common”, in Diacritics n. 39.3, 39.4, Double Special Issue: ”Contemporary Italian Thought”: pp.135-145.

2010. ”Venus’s Strabismus. Looking at the Crisis of Politics from the Politics of Difference”, in Iris n. 3: pp.167-182.

2009. ”Pubblico e privato nel laboratorio italiano” [The Public and the Private in the Italian Political Laboratory], in Iride n. 58: pp. 515- 522.

”La scoperta di un sistema di scambio fra sesso, danaro e potere: ciò che la sinistra non vede” [The Discovery of a System of Exchange among Power, Sex and Money. What the Left does not See], in Alternative per il socialismo n. 11: pp. 50-54.

2008. ”La differenza del femminismo italiano” [Italian Feminism and its Difference], in ‘Via Dogana n. 84: pp. 7-8.

2006. ”Heiresses at Twilight. The End of Politics and the Politics of Difference”, in The Commoner n. 11: pp. 89-109.

2005. ”Rethinking Change: Italian Feminism between Crisis and Critique of Politics”, in Cultural Studies Review, 11-2., Special Issue: Italian Effects (C. Healy and S.Muecke eds.): pp. 25-35.

2001. ”Aprirsi all’imprevisto” [Opening to the Unforseen], in DonnaWomanFemme n.2-3: pp. 65-69.

1997. ”Corpo politico” [The Political Body], in Sofia n.3: pp. 38-49.

1996. ”Media, politica, antipolitica” [Media, Politics, Anti-Politics], in Democrazia e diritto n.1: pp. 335-353.

”Rethinking the Body”, in European Journal af Women’s Studies‘ vol.3-3: pp. 325-328.

1994. ”Language, Communication and Betrayal”, in The European Journal of Women’s Studies, n.1: pp. 61-71.

”La crisi di autorità della politica” [Authority Crisis in Politics], in Critica marxista n. 2.

1993. ”La sconfitta che veniva da dentro” [A Defeat that Came from Within], in Via Dogana n. 8: pp.19-20.

”Sorelle. La solidarietà senza innocenza” [Sisters: Solidarity without Innocence], in Parole chiave n.2, ”Solidarietà”: pp. 141-153.

1992. ”Violenza sessuale: un progetto di legge si aggira da 13 anni” [Sexual Violence: a Draft Law that has been Hunting us for 13 years] , in Via Dogana n. 5: pp. 5-6 and n. 6: pp. 6-7.

”Se divaricano crisi e critica” [If Crisis and Critique Widen], in Reti n. 4-5 : pp. 27-29.

1991. ”Cinque paradossi da un evento accaduto” [Five Paradoxes from an Occured Event], in Reti n.1-2: pp. 3-11.

1990. ”Parole ai corpi, corpi alle parole” [Words for Bodies, Bodies for Words], in Reti n.5: pp. 3-11.

”I testi e i loro pretesti” [Texts and their Pretexts], in Reti n.6: pp.53-62.

1989. ”Il nome e la cosa” [The Name and the Thing], in Reti, n.1: pp..

1987. ”Radicalità e ascetismo” [Radicality and Asceticism], in Memoria, n.19-20: pp.142-152.

”Doppio movimento” [Double Movement], in Donna Woman Femme n. 4, pp..

”L’asimmetria fra donne e Pci” [The Asymmetry between Women and P.C.I.], in Reti, n. 2: pp. 37-40.

1982. ”Sul separatismo femminista’ [On Feminist Separatism]’, in L’Orsaminore, n.6: pp.57-61.

1981. ”Fiorisce il Narciso nello Stato sociale” [Narcissus Prospers in the Welfare State], in L’Orsaminore, n.2: pp. 46-48.

Articles

For the list of articles and interviews published in il manifesto (more than 2000 titles) see the digital archive of the newspaper, storico.ilmanifesto.it

For the list of the articles published in Golem see www.golemindispensabile.it

Special Issues (Editor)

2006. Manifesto 35. [Special Issue for the 35^th birthday of ”il manifesto”], april.

Per amore del mondo. L’eredità di Hannah Arendt a cento anni dalla nascita [Hannah Arendt’s Heritage in the Centenary of her Birth], in il manifesto 10/14

Fuori norma. L’operaismo italiano, un bilancio in occasione della ripubblicazione di “Operai e capitale” di Mario Tronti, [Italian Workerism. An Appraisal in Occasion of the Republishing of Workers and Capital by Mario Tronti], in il manifesto 12/11.

2002 Il rovescio di Tangentopoli. A dieci anni dal crollo della ‘Prima Repubblica’ [The reverse side of Tangentopoli. Ten Years after the End of the Italian ‘First Republic’], in il manifesto 2/17.

1995 Corpo politico. La procreazione fra biopolitica e libertà femminile [The Political Body. Procreation between Biopolitics and Female Freedom], in il manifesto 3/6

Corpo a corpo. Il corpo femminile fra soggettività e controllo nella disseminazione tecnologica di fine secolo, [Hand-to-Hand. The Feminine Body between Subjectivity and Control of Technological Dissemination at the Turn of the Century], in il manifesto 8/3.

1987 Il genere del voto. Sulla rappresentanza politica femminile [Vote and Gender. On Women’s Political Representation], in il manifesto 8/3

Interviews

2011 ”Aprire spiragli di libertà” [”Opening Glimmers of Freedom] (with Enrico Donaggio and Daniela Steila),in Alfabeta2, 12/16, http://www.alfabeta2.it/2011/12/16/schiudere-spazi-di-liberta/.

2010 ”La parole féminine. Entretien avec Ida Dominijanni” (with Filippo Furrì), in Altérités, vol. 7, n1: 99-110.

2010. ”Il primo gesto di libertà è la parola” [The first Gesture of Freedom is Speech] (with Silvia Neonato), in Leggendaria n. 80: pp.

2009, ”Intervista a Ida Dominijanni” (con Paola Leonardi e Ferdinanda Vigliani), in P. Leonardi e F. Vigliani (eds), Perché non abbiamo avuto figli. Donne ‘speciali’ si raccontano, Franco Angeli, Milano: pp. 82-92

1999. ”Donne e politica” [Womens and Politics] (con Carlo Cavaglià), in Tempo presente n. 226-227: pp.13-17

International Conferences

Invited Speaker

2013. “Political Theater and Analytical Setting”, Psycoanalysis and Political Theory, University of Salerno, Salerno.

2012. ”The Case for a Post-Patriarchal Biopolitics”, Postfeminism? The Culture and Politics of Gender in the Age of Berlusconi, Culture and Politics of Gender Research Group, Bologna.

2010 ”Wounds of the Common”, Commonalities. Theorizing the Common in Contemporary Italian Thought, International Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca.

2008 ”Sovereignty, Borders and Vulnerability”, Workshop with Wendy Brown and Judith Butler, Rome Tre University, Rome (Organizer and Chair).

”Venus’s Strabismus. Looking at the Crisis of Politics from the Politics of Difference”, In Dialogue: Italian and Canadian Feminists, McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women, Italian Institute of Culture, Montreal

2006 ”The Politics of the Law and the Thought of Sexual Difference”, 12th IAPH Conference, Rome

”Making Visible, Seeing the Invisible”, Per comunicar amb una altra mirada, II Trobada Estatal de la Xarxa Internacional De Dones Periodistes, Barcellona.

”Politics without Mourning: Derrida and the Crisis of Modern Politics”, Derrida Today, Sydney (with Brett Neilson).

2005. ”From Justice to Fear: Iris Maron Young and Judith Butler”,Women and Justice, Barcellona.

2004 ”Politique du symbolique et liberté des femmes”, Les Femmes dans l’espace public, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris.

”Rethinking the Change”, Italian Effects, Sydney.

2003. ”The Feminine Word in the Fold of the Present”, Week of Italian Language and Culture at Italian Institute of Culture, Melbourne.

2002. ”The Stakes of Feminine Freedom”, La Passiò per la Llibertat, 10th IAPH Conference, Barcellona.

1998. ”Identity and Relationship in the Feminism of Sexual Difference”, C.O.I.R.A.G and Opifer, Italy-Usa International Conference, Milan.

1992. ”Italian Feminism of the 1980s”, Feminism and Critical Theory International Conference, University of Malaga, Malaga.

1991. ”Language, Communication, Betrayal”, International Congress of Feminist Theory, Glasgow.

Courses Taught

2007-2008. ”Power and the Critique of Power in Feminist Theory: Subjectivity and Subjectivation in Judith Butler”, Roma Tre University, Rome.

2006-2007. ”Power and the Critique of Power in Feminist Theory: Patriarchy and Social Contract”, Roma Tre University, Rome.

2005-2006. ”Multiculturalism: Identity, Difference and Globalization”: Roma Tre University, Rome.

2004-2005 ”For an Ontology of the Present: Vulnerability and the Politics of Mourning in Judith Butler”, Roma Tre University, Rome.

”Women and Democracy”, Graduate Seminar, Federico II University, Naples

2003-2004. ”The Present as a Text: for an Ontology of the Present”, Roma Tre University, Rome.

2002-2003. ”Body, Language and Politics in the Virtual Agora”, Roma Tre University, Rome.

2001-2002. ”Gender Identity and Sexual Difference”, Roma Tre University, Rome.

1997-1998 ”Feminine Freedom. Reading Virginia Woolf, Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt”, University of Siena, Siena

1996-1997 ”Theory of Freedom and the Thought of Sexual Difference”, University of Siena, Siena

1994-1995 ”Media and Women’s Politics”, Centre for Feminist Culture ”Virginia Woolf”, Rome.

1986-1987 ”Order, Power and Authority” (co-taught with Adriana Cavarero and Rosi Braidotti), Centre for Feminist Culture ”Virginia Woolf”, Rome.

Lectures

2013. ”The Cricket’s Leap. Post-Oedipal Populism and Neoliberal Democracy in Contemporary Italy”, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

”Spectralizing Sexuality. Women, Biopolitics and Neoliberalism in Contemporary Italy”, Colorado College, Colorado Springs.

2011. ”Why Sexual Difference”, Berlin, Freie Universitat, Lecture Series ”The future of gender”.

2004 ”The Expropriating Wound: War, Mourning and Love”, Acting and Suffering Politics, Diotima Philosophical Comunity Conference, University of Verona, Verona.

2003 ”Rethinking Freedom. The Politics of Sexual Difference in Contemporary Italy”, Monash University, Melbourne.

”Rethinking Freedom. The Politics of Sexual Difference in Contemporary Italy”, Auckland University, Auckland.

”The Intellectual of the Public Arena in the Italian Transition”, University of Technology, Sydney.

”The Role of Social Movements in the Italian Transition”, University of Technology, Sydney.

2002 ”Women and Men Year Zero. Feminist Political Thought after 9/11”, Diotima Philosophical Comunity Workshop, University of Verona, Verona.

1996 ”Representation and the Crisis of Politics”, Lecture at the Course of Political Philosophy taught by Adriana Cavarero, University of Verona, Verona.

1995 ”The Body and the Symbolic in the Thought of Sexual Difference”, Lecture at the Course of Political Philosophy taught by Chiara Zamboni, University of Verona, Verona

1994 ”The Reception of Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan in Italian Feminism” Lecture at the Course of Political Philosophy taught by Chiara Zamboni, University of Verona, Verona

1993 ”Identity and Gender Difference”, Lecture at the Istituto Orientale of Naples, for the Course of Anthropology taught by Carla Pasquinelli

Service

1993-2014 Member of the Board of Directors of the Rome Center of Study for the Reform of the State.

1990-2014 Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Critica marxista.

1999-2011. Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Democrazia e diritto

1994-2000 Member of the Board of Directors of the Association “Antigone” in Rome.

1996-1997. Research Scholar, “Massmedia and Juvenile Justice” on behalf for the Ministry of Justice.

1987-1992. Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Reti.

1981-1983 Member of the Editorial Board and Director of the Magazine L’Orsaminore.