Timothy Campbell

Timothy Campbell is Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. He works at the intersection of contemporary Italian thought, biopolitics, and media studies. His scholarly work includes translations of Roberto Esposito’s Bios: 'Biopolitics and Philosophy and Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community', as well as the co-translation of Carlo Diano’s 'Form and Event'. Campbell also served as editor of the “Commonalities” series at Fordham University Press and co-edited 'Biopolitics: A Reader' with Adam Sitze. Campbell’s own authored works include 'Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben' and 'Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life'. His most recent work, 'The Comic Self: Toward Dispossession', was co-authored with Grant Farred. He is currently completing his next book on democracy and biopolitics.

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COVID-19 and the Biopolitics of Global Health – Introduction

COVID-19 and the Biopolitics of Global Health – Introduction


The set of essays in this series approach the COVID-19 pandemic as an unfinished event, where debates and discussions must continue to explore and illuminate our stakes in the contemporary.  The forum for which they were written, a project involving three workshops in three continents over 18 months, sought a conjunction of two disciplinary perspectives: […]