Isabell Lorey

Isabell Lorey is a political theorist at the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (EIPCP), based in Berlin, and an editor of transversal texts. She has taught political theory, social science, cultural and gender studies at several European universities: Zentrum Gender Studies at the University of Basel (since 2012); Humboldt University Berlin (2010 and 2011); and the University of Vienna (2009 and 2010). She has published extensively on the precarization of labour and life in neoliberalism, the critical theory of democracy and representation, biopolitical governmentality, and political immunization.

Works

• Immer Ärger mit dem Subjekt. Politische und theoretische Konsequenzen eines juridischen Machtmodells: Judith Butler, Tübingen: discord, 1996. (German)
• Figuren des Immunen: Elemente einer politischen Theorie, Zürich: diaphanes 2011. (German)
• "Gouvernementale Prekarisierung", in Inventionen 1: Gemeinsam. Prekär. Potentia. Kon-/Disjunktion. Ereignis. Transversalität. Queere Assemblagen, eds. Isabell Lorey, Roberto Nigro and Gerald Raunig, Zürich: diaphanes 2011. (German)
• Die Regierung der Prekären, foreword Judith Butler, Vienna and Berlin: Turia + Kant 2012, 2nd ed., 2015. (German)
  • State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious, trans. Aileen Derieg, foreword Judith Butler, Verso, 2015, 148 pp, ARG. (English)
  • El gobierno de los precarios, trans. Raúl Sánchez, Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños, 2015. (Spanish)
  • Güvencesizliğin Yönetimi, Istanbul: Otonom Yayıncılık, 2015. (Turkish)
• Los nuevos éxodos. Precarización y movimientos constituyentes, pref. Verónica Gago, Buenos Aires: Cruce, 2015. (Spanish)
• Texts in transversal (German),(English),(Spanish)