Person

Matteo Pasquinelli

Matteo Pasquinelli is a writer, curator and researcher. He completed his doctorate at Queen Mary University of London with a thesis on the new forms of conflict within knowledge economy and cognitive capitalism. He wrote the book Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons (2008) and edited the collections Media Activism (2002) and C'Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader (2007). He writes and lectures frequently at the intersection of French philosophy, media culture and Italian post-operaismo.

He is a member of the international collectives Uninomade and Edufactory and also of the jury of Transmediale 2011 festival in Berlin. In Amsterdam, together with Katrien Jacobs and the Institute of Network Cultures, he organised the Art and Politics of Netporn conference (2005) and the C?Lick Me festival (2007). At Queen Mary University of London he co-organised the series of seminars The Art of Rent and the research network The Factory of the Common (2008-2009). From 2000 to 2009 he has been editor of the mailing list Rekombinant.

Together with Wietske Maas he developed the art project Urbanibalism. His current project is a book about the history of the notion of surplus across biology, psychoanalysis, knowledge economy and the environmental discourse. He lives and works betweem Amsterdam and Berlin.

http://matteopasquinelli.com/