Amedeo Policante
Amedeo Policante is a critical theorist and historian of political thought. He holds a PhD from Goldsmiths College, University of London and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Warwick. He is the author of two recent monographs: I Nuovi Mercenari: Mercato Mondiale e Privatizzazione della Guerra (Ombre Corte, 2014) investigating the on-going commodification of security and the resulting fragmentation of social space both at the global and at the urban level; and The Pirate Myth: Genealogies of an Imperial Concept (Routledge, 2016) focusing on shifting representations of piracy in legal, literary and popular culture, and the role they have played in international politics since the eighteenth century. He has also published several articles and book chapters on the political thought of Karl Marx, Carl Schmitt and Michel Foucault; as well as an ethnography of political protests and their visual representation. These works have been disseminating via traditional means such as academic journals, magazines and newspapers; and alternative means such as ‘The Pirate Camp’, a collaborative artistic project featured at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
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Overlooking the Sicilian capital, Pizzo Sella is a natural promontory also home to hundreds of unfinished constructions – the result of a wave of illegal urban sprawl started in the late 1970s. Artist Erik Smith freely explores the enduring presence of these concrete ghosts, engaging with the fragments – materials… Read more »

Heliograph, Calotype, Talbotype, Daguerreotype: these are some of the early names that circulated prior to the word “photograph” during the early, experimental stages of its invention. This fascinating historical text from the mid-1800s lays out the early development of photography from a point in time when the technology had advanced,… Read more »

Between the areas of Spitalfields and Aldgate in east London, where Middlesex and Wentworth Streets converge to form Petticoat Lane, lies a stretch of market stalls selling clothes, street food and everyday goods. This very space became the setting for a short workshop on place-writing, held in October 2023 by… Read more »