Isabell Lorey is a political theorist at the European
Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (eipcp), and an editor of
transversal texts. She is Professor of Political Theory and Gender at the
University of Kassel, Kassel. She taught for several
years at the Humboldt-University in Berlin and the University in Vienna social
and cultural sciences, feminist and postcolonial theory. From 2001–2007 she held
a professorship for Gender and Postcolonial Studies at the University of the
Arts Berlin. Internationally, she has published on: the precarization of
labour and life in neoliberalism; current social movements (especially the
democracy-movements since 2011); the critical theory of democracy and
representation; and political immunization. Selected books include: State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious (2015); Kognitiver
Kapitalismus (2012); Regierung der Prekären (2012); Figuren
des Immunen (2011); Inventionen 1 (2011); and Inventionen 2 (2012). Currently
she is writing a book on “Presentist Democracy.” Lorey lives and works in
Berlin. [Last updated 2016]