Matteo Mandarini Curriculum Vitae
MATTEO MANDARINI
Date of Birth: 22.06.71
Nationality: Italian
Email: m.mandarini@qmul.ac.uk
SUMMARY
Editorial Board member of journal Historical Materialism
Edited and translated essays and books for Continuum, Verso, Duke, and Stanford University Press,
and for the journal Radical Philosophy
Reader for a variety of publishing houses (Verso, Continuum, Pluto) and journals (Historical Materialism,
Ephemera, Organization, Theory Culture and Society)
Associate editor to Zero Books series
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.
 M.A. Continental Philosophy (Distinction): Oct. ‘92 – Sept. ‘93
University College London
 B.A. (Hons) Philosophy 2:1 Oct. ‘89 – Jun. ‘92
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
‘Critical Thoughts on the Politics of Immanence’, in Historical Materialism (forthcoming in 18.3, 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.
Campbell Jones and Rolland Munro, Blackwell, Oxford, 2005
Other Forms
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‘The Conservative Revolution’ in Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics, edited by C.
Jones, Springer: Heidelberg and New York (planned for 2011)
‘Organizing Communism’ in Communists like Us by Felix Guattari and Antonio Negri, Autonomedia,
New York (forthcoming 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 Peter Fleming) in Handbook of Critical Management Studies, edited by H. WIlmott, M
Alvesson, and T. Bridgman, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009
‘Antonio Negri and the Antinomies of Bourgeois Thought’ (with Alberto Toscano) in The Political
Descartes: Reason, Ideology and the Bourgeois Project, by Antonio Negri, Verso, London, 2007
‘Antagonism vs. Contradiction: Conflict and the Dynamics of Organisation in the Thought of Antonio
Negri’ in Contemporary Organization Theory, ed. Campbell Jones and Rolland Munro, Blackwell, Oxford,
2005 and in The Sociological Review, Oct. 2005, vol. 53, s.1
‘Translator’s Introduction’ in Time for Revolution, Antonio 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. Joan Broadhurst Dixon and Eric J.
Cassidy, Routledge, London, 1998
Translations
Philosophy and Globalisation, Giacomo Marramao, Verso, London forthcoming 2010
The Kingdom and the Glory, Giorgio Agamben, translated with Lorenzo Chiesa, Standford University
Press, forthcoming 2010
The Labour of Job, Antonio Negri, Duke University Press, 2009
The Political Descartes: Reason, Ideology and the Bourgeois Project, A. Negri, edited and introduced with Alberto
Toscano, Verso, London, 2007
‘Giorgio Agamben: The Discrete Taste of the Dialectic’, Antonio Negri, in Sovereignty and Life: Essays on
the Work of Giorgio Agamben, edited by Matthew Calarco and Steven DeCaroli, Stanford University Press,
2007
‘Reading Gilbert Simondon: Transindividuality, Technical Activity and Reification’, Paolo 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
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‘Empire and the Multitude. A debate on the new order of globalisation’, D. Zolo & A. Negri, translated
with Arianna Bove, Radical Philosophy June-July, 2003
Time for Revolution, brings together two works by A. Negri: The Constitution of Time and Kairòs, Alma
Venus, Multitudo, Continuum, London, 2003
Selected Conference Papers
Invited speaker, ‘Badiou, Business, Ethics’ conference, Leicestser 26-28 May 2011
Invited speaker to the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht: gave two papers, ‘Politics and Time’ and
‘Politics and Autonomy’, September 2-3, 2009
‘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 15th 2008
‘Workerism and the Political’, Historical Materialism 2008, London November 6-8th 2008
Invited to give paper, ‘Beyond Nihilism’, at the Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy at the
School of Management, University of Leicester, 7th 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
Associate editor of Zero Books series
Special Issues
Editing special issue for Emphemera: ‘Biopolitics, Governmentality, the Commons…. Rethinking the
Politics of Organisation’
Journal/Book Reviewing
Reviewer for the journals: Historical Materialism, Theory Culture and Society, Ephemera, Organization, Radical
Philosophy
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Reviewer for the publishers: Verso, Pluto, Continuum, Polity
Conference Organisation
Co-organiser annual Historical Materialism Conference at SOAS, in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Co-organised Art of Rent Seminar Series, QMUL, Jan-June 2008.
TEACHING
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First supervisor to: Toni Prug, second year PhD candidate (BUSMAN); Clayton Chin second
year PhD candidate (Politics)
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Co-supervisor to: Helene Samanci, second year PhD candidate (Politics & BUSMAN)
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Second supervisor to: Bue Rübner Hansen, first year PhD candidate (BUSMAN); Armin
Beverungen, PhD. candidate, writing up (University of Leicester, School of Management)
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Apr. 9-23 – Course development Gadja Madha University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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Jan. 2009 – ongoing – Developed and convened module Philosophy of Social Science for first
year PhD. candidates
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Sept. 2008 – ongoing – Jointly developed and taught Strategy module BUS 204 (with Prof. S.
Harney)
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Jan. 2008 – Apr. 2008 – Seminars in Work, Employment, and Society to undergraduates at
QMUL
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Oct. 2007 – Dec. 2007 – Seminars and lectures in Strategy to undergraduates at QMUL; and
taught Organizational Analysis (MSc) at University of Leicester
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Oct. 2006 – Jul. 2007 – Seminars in Strategy and Research Methods to undergraduates, and
taught Qualitative Research Methods (MA) at Queen Mary College University of London.
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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. Is second supervisor to two PhD
students and supervisor for MSc dissertations.
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June 2006 – Intensive 2-week MA course in 19th and 20th Century European Philosophy
(Fondazione Basso/Roma 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/Roma III.
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