Timothy Campbell is Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Studies. In addition to authoring Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi (Minnesota, 2006) and the forthcoming Tecnica, thanatos, vita (Diotima, 2010), he has translated Roberto Esposito’s Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy (Minnesota, 2008) and Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community (Stanford, 2009). At Cornell he teaches courses on contemporary Italian philosophy, cinema, and literature.
Books
Has biopolitics actually become thanatopolitics, a field of study obsessed with death? Is there something about the nature of biopolitical thought today that makes it…
This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the humanities and social sciences today. The far-reaching…