Elsa Dorlin

Professor of political philosophy at Toulouse Jean Jaurès University, Elsa Dorlin has been working for twenty years on a new history of bodies through the genealogy of modern forms of power relations. She was awarded the CNRS bronze medal in 2009 for her research in feminist philosophy and epistemology. She has been a visiting professor at the Berkeley University in California, a Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas & Imagination, and a resident at the Camargo Foundation. She is the author of La Matrice de la race. Généalogie sexuelle et coloniale de la Nation française, (La Découverte, 2006/2009), and Sexe, genre et sexualités. Introduction à la philosophie féministe, (Puf, 2008/2021). In 2017, she published Se Défendre. Une philosophie de la violence, (Zones), which received the Frantz Fanon prize from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. She recently edited the book Feu! Abécédaire des féminismes présents, (Libertalia, 2021). Pursuing her reflection on the complexity of the mechanics of domination, sexism, racism and capitalism, her thinking is as close as possible to resistances grasped at the scale of flesh, muscles and senses. As part of the Portrait dedicated to Gisèle Vienne at the Festival d'Automne in 2021, Elsa Dorlin wrote the introductory text for the exhibition of the Franco-Austrian visual artist at the Musée d'art moderne in Paris, and in the same year began the lecture series entitled Travailler la violence at the CND Centre national de la danse.