Steven Corcoran:
Together with others, I run a collective called Parrhesia, School of Philosophy, Berlin, a nonprofit educational organization open to all and devoted to philosophy as a public practice. We do not rely on state funding and thrive only thanks to the dedication of all those involved, who stand as evidence of the increasing need for independent education and thought today.
I am also a writer, editor and translator of philosophical and literary works, specializing in French and German theory. My work includes a broad array of topics: radical politics, contemporary and twentieth-century art, nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry and literature, ontology, biopolitics, decolonial theory, theories of education, Critical Theory, care theories, Marxism, and aesthetics, among others.
My edited/translated works include: The Badiou Dictionary; Alain Badiou’s Conditions, Polemics, and The Idea of Communism; Jacques Rancière’s Dissensus, Hatred of Democracy, The Edges of Fiction, and What Times Are We Living In?; Frantz Fanon’s Alienation and Freedom; Achille Mbembe’s Necropolitics, The Earthly Community, and Brutalism; Peter Sloterdijk’s Nietzsche, Apostle, Terror from the Air; and Estelle Ferrarese’s The Fragility of Concern for Others.
I am currently working on a book about egalitarian political education and organization, and am preparing a Special Issue of a journal called Continental Thought & Theory on the thought of Jacques Rancière.