Matteo Mandarini Curriculum Vitae
MATTEO MANDARINI
Date of Birth: 22.06.71
Nationality: Italian
Address: 28 Warwick Rd,
London E15 4LA
Tel: 07849 066 946
Email: m.mandarini@qmul.ac.uk
Position Held: Lecturer in Strategy
SUMMARY
Member of Centre for Ethics and Politics, QMUL
Member of Centre for Philosophy & Political Economy, School of Management, University of
Leicester
Reader for a variety of publishing houses (Palgrave, Verso, Continuum, Pluto, Polity) and journals
(Business Ethics: a European Review, Ephemera, Historical Materialism, Organization, Theory
Culture and Society, Science & Society)
Associate editor to Zer0 Books imprint
Edited and translated essays and books for Continuum, Verso, Duke, and Stanford University
Press, and for the journal Radical Philosophy
Editorial Board member of journal Historical Materialism
EDUCATION
University of Warwick
 PhD. Philosophy: Oct. ‘94 – Oct. ‘98
Thesis was concerned with the intersection of time, ontology and political economy in the work of Marx and Deleuze.
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M.A. Continental Philosophy (Distinction): Oct. ‘92 – Sept. ‘93
University College London
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B.A. (Hons) Philosophy 2:1 Oct. ‘89 – Jun. ‘92
TEACHING
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PhD and MPhil. Supervision (5 completed): first supervisor (PhD.) to Toni Prug (SBM &
Laws); joint supervisor (PhD.) to Clayton Chin (Politics, QMUL); joint supervisor (MPhil.) to
Helene Samanci (SBM and Politics, QMUL); Bue Rübner Hansen (SBM); second supervisor
(PhD.) to Armen Beverungen (School of Management, University of Leicester).
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PhD supervision (1 ongoing): second supervisor to Rashne Limki (SBM).
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Msc Dissertation supervision: has supervised circa 15 dissertations in SBM 2009-2014.
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2012 – ongoing. Convenes and teaches: ‘The Fundamentals of Management’, first year UG.
This is a core module for joint students only. (Circa 160 students).
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2008 – ongoing. Convenes and teaches: ‘Strategy’, second year UG. (This is an optional module which attracts between 180-220 students per year)
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Apr. 9-23 2009. Course development Gadja Madha University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
 Jan. 2008-10. Developed and convened module ‘Philosophy of Social Science’ for first year
PhD. candidates (SBM)
 Jan. 2008 – Apr. 2008. Seminars in ‘Work, Employment, and Society’, first year UG (SBM)
 Oct. 2007 – Dec. 2007. Seminars and lectures in ‘Strategy’ to second year UG at QMUL,
SBM; and ‘Organizational Analysis’ (MSc) at University of Leicester school of Management
 Oct. 2006 – Jul. 2007. Seminars in ‘Strategy’ and ‘Research Methodology to UG, and taught
Qualitative Research Methods (Msc) at QMUL, SBM.
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Oct. 2006 – Jul. 2007. Designed and taught ‘Organizational Analysis’ (MSc) and ‘History of
Social Science Research’ (Mres) at the University of Leicester, school of Management.
Second supervisor to Armin Beverungen (completed 2011) and supervisor for MSc dissertations.
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June 2006. Intensive 2-week MA course in ‘19 th and 20 th Century European Philosophy’
(University of Rome III).
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Jan. 2005 – Jun. 2005. Designed and taught ‘Self, Freedom and the Unconscious: Freud and
Sartre,’ (BA), University of Greenwich.
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Oct. 2003-Jul. 2004. Designed and led seminars on ‘Modern and Contemporary Political and Social Thought’ (MA), Fondazione Basso/University of Rome III.
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May 2001. External examiner for PhD., Department for International Relations, University of Surrey.
ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES
2011-12. Assessment Offences Officer 2011-12
2010-12 Member of Research Committee in the School of Business and Management
2008-10. Deputy Director of the PhD Programme in the School of Business and Management.
Specific responsibility for development of PhD Taught Programme. Taught and / or administered the modules.
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Global Learning partnership with Gadja Mahda University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
The Other Operaismo, Brill, Leiden, Netherlands / Haymarket Books Chicago (in preparation)
Gli Operaisti nel PCI, Ediesse Editori, Rome (in preparation)
Articles
‘Speculations on Disposable Time, the Subsumption of Labour and the Circuit of Capital’ (with G.
Hanlon), Organization (submitted)
‘Notes on the Political Over the Longue Durée’, in Viewpoint Magazine (forthcoming October
2014)
‘Critical Thoughts on the Politics of Immanence’, in Historical Materialism, 18.4, 2010
‘Beyond Nihilism: Notes Towards a Critique of Left-Heideggerianism in Italian Communist
Thought,’ in Cosmos & History, vol. 5, no. 1, 2009 and in The Italian Difference, edited by A.
Toscano and L. Chiesa, Melbourne: re.press
‘Not Fear but Hope in the Apocalypse’ in Ephemera, 8.2, May 2008
‘Marx and Deleuze: Money, Time, and Crisis’ in Polygraph, 18, January 2007
‘Antagonism vs. Contradiction: Conflict and the Dynamics of Organisation in the Thought of
Antonio Negri’ in The Sociological Review, Oct. 2005, vol. 53, s.1 and in Contemporary
Organization Theory, ed. C. Jones and R. Munro, Blackwell, Oxford, 2005
Handbook / Book Chapters
‘On the impossibility of Business Ethics: leadership, heterogeneity, and politics’ (with G. Hanlon), in The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Politics and Organization, ed. A. Pullen and C. Rhodes
(forthcoming 2015)
‘The Critique of Populism in Italian Communist Thought’ (in preparation) in Writers and the People, by A. Asor Rosa, edited and introduced M. Mandarini, Seagull Books, London / Kolkota
(forthcoming 2015)
‘Negative Thought and the Morphology of Crisis’ in the The Bewitched World of Capital: Economic
Crisis and the Morphology of the Political , by G. Marramao, edited with extensive critical introduction by M. Mandarini, Brill / Haymarket Books (forthcoming 2015)
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‘Organizing Communism’ in Communists like Us by F. Guattari and A. Negri, Autonomedia, New
York (2010)
‘Beyond Nihilism: Notes Towards a Critique of Left-Heideggerianism in Italian Communist
Thought,’ in The Italian Difference, edited by A. Toscano and L. Chiesa, Melbourne: re.press and in
Cosmos & History, vol. 5, no. 1, 2009
‘Work’ (with P. Fleming) in Handbook of Critical Management Studies, edited by H. WIlmott, M.
Alvesson, and T. Bridgman, Oxford University Press, 2009
‘Antonio Negri and the Antinomies of Bourgeois Thought’ (with A. Toscano) in The Political
Descartes: Reason, Ideology and the Bourgeois Project, by A. Negri, Verso, London, 2007
‘Antagonism vs. Contradiction: Conflict and the Dynamics of Organisation in the Thought of
Antonio Negri’ in Contemporary Organization Theory, ed. C. Jones and R. Munro, Blackwell,
Oxford, 2005 and in The Sociological Review, Oct. 2005, vol. 53, s.1
‘Translator’s Introduction’ in Time for Revolution, A. Negri, Continuum, London, 2003
‘Neoliberalism or Totalitarianism: a Reply to Malcolm Bull’ at http://www.generationonline.org/p/pnegri.htm 2003
‘From Epidermal History to Speed Politics’ in Virtual Futures, ed. J. Broadhurst Dixon and E. J.
Cassidy, Routledge, London, 1998
Translations
Writers and the People, A. Asor Rosa, edited, translated and introduced M. Mandarini, Seagull
Books, London / Kolkota (expected date of publication 2015)
‘Introduction’ by M. Tronti to Il Politico, for Viewpoint Magazine (forthcoming September-October
2014)
The Passage West: Philosophy and Globalisation, G. Marramao, Verso, London, August 2012
The Kingdom and the Glory, G. Agamben, translated with L. Chiesa, Stanford University Press, 2011
The Labour of Job, A. Negri, Duke University Press, 2009
The Political Descartes: Reason, Ideology and the Bourgeois Project, A. Negri, edited and introduced M. Mandarini and A. Toscano, Verso, London, 2007
‘Giorgio Agamben: The Discrete Taste of the Dialectic’, A.Negri, in Sovereignty and Life: Essays on
the Work of Giorgio Agamben, edited by M. Calarco and S. DeCaroli, Stanford University Press,
2007
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‘Reading Gilbert Simondon: Transindividuality, Technical Activity and Reification’, P. Virno, Radical
Philosophy 136, March/April 2006
‘On the political ontology of the subject’, A. Negri, in Ontology in Practice: Radical Secular and
Religious Politics, Duke University Press, 2004
‘The Postcolonial Condition’, S. Mezzadra & F. Rahola. John Douglas Taylor Conference, ‘The
Politics of Postcoloniality: Contexts and Conflicts’, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, October
24, 2003
‘Empire and the Multitude. A debate on the new order of globalisation’, D. Zolo & A. Negri, translated with A. Bove, Radical Philosophy June-July, 2003
Time for Revolution, edited and introduced M. Mandarini, Continuum, London, 2003
Selected Conference Papers
‘Tronti’s Copernican revolution and the Question of the Political’, invited speaker at CPPE 10 years on, School of Management, University of Leicester, December 16-18 2013.
‘Against the Politics of Purity’, Historical Materialism, New York City, May 2011
‘Eliding Politics’, Immanence and Materialism Conference, Department of Politics QMUL, June 23
2009
Invited speaker to Faculty of Social and Political Science, Gadja Mahda University, Yogyakarta,
Indonesia April 13, 15, 17, 2009
‘Lenin and Workerism’, International Conference Karl Marx, Lisbon November 15 th 2008
‘Workerism and the Political’, Historical Materialism 2008, London November 6-8 th 2008
Invited to give paper, ‘Beyond Nihilism’, at the Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy at the
School of Management, University of Leicester, 7 th February 2007
Invited to give paper, ‘Nihilismo e tecnologia’, at the Dipartimento di studi storici e politici,
Università di Padova, by Prof. Massimiliano Tomba, Sept. 2006
Presented paper at ‘The Future in the Present’, University of Leicester, May 2006
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Editorial Boards
Historical Materialism
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Associate editor of Zero Books
Journal/Book Reviewing
Reviewer for the journals: Ephemera, Historical Materialism, Organization, Theory Culture and
Society, Science & Society, Business Ethics: a European Review
Reviewer for the publishers: Palgrave, Verso, Pluto, Continuum, Polity
Conference Organisation
Co-organiser Historical Materialism Rome 2015
Co-organiser annual Historical Materialism Conference at SOAS, in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Co-organised Art of Rent Seminar Series, QMUL, Jan-June 2008.
INVITATIONS
He has been invited to speak at:
CPPE, School of Management, University of Leicester, 16-20 December 2013
Berlage Institute of Architecture and Urbanism, Rotterdam, Amsterdam – March 2012
Jan Van Eyck Academie – September 2010
School of Social Sciences, Gadja Mahda University (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) – April 2009
Department of Philosophy, University of Rome III – October 2008
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