Amia Srinivasan worked with Artangel on Longplayer Assembly – joining 23 other participants in a non-stop 12-hour conversation relay presented live online on 26 September 2020, marking the twentieth anniversary of Longplayer.
Srinivasan is a philosopher and academic, specialising in political philosophy, epistemology, and the history and philosophy of feminism. Since January 2020, she has been Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford. She has recently been thinking about the role of anger in politics, political epistemology, no platforming, and the ethics of pedagogy.
Srinivasan is a contributing editor of the London Review of Books. Her writing for a public audience – on sex, animals, death, the university, technology, anger and other topics – has also appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, the Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, The New York Times and TANK. She is currently finishing writing two books. The first is about the practice of critical genealogy, entitled The Contingent World: Genealogy, Epistemology, Politics. The second is a set of feminist essays entitled The Right to Sex, forthcoming with Bloomsbury in the UK and FSG in the US.