MATTEO POLLERI
CEPS FULL RESEARCHER
Matteo Polleri is a full researcher at the Centre for Ethics, Politics, and Society and an associate researcher at the Laboratoire Sophiapol of Paris Nanterre University. He holds a binational PhD in political philosophy from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and University of Paris Nanterre. He has previously worked at Sciences Po and Fondazione Luigi Einaudi and has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York and National University of Colombia in Bogotá.
His research focuses on modern and contemporary critical thought, with particular attention to the encounters and tensions between historical materialism, French contemporary philosophy, and intersectionality, as well as to the circulation of these traditions between Europe and the Americas. His work specifically addresses workers’ inquiry, analysis of power relations, theories of emancipation, and the critique of political economy.
He is the author of Marxismi foucaultiani: una mappa critica (Mimesis, 2024) and Découvrir Foucault (Les éditions sociales, 2026). His next book, Marx or Foucault: From Adversity to Heresy, is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press.
Professional category
- Full Researcher
Education
- 2023. PhD in Political Philosophy (Binational program) at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa / Paris Nanterre University, Laboratoire Sophiapol.
- 2018. MA in Philosophy at the University of Torino
- 2018. MA in Political Science at the Scuola di Studi Superiori di Torino.
- 2015. BA in History of Philosophy at the University of Torino.
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Research interests
- Critical Thought (Critical Theory of Society, Theories of Capitalism, Analysis of Power Relations, Workers’ Inquiry, Theories of Emancipation, Marxist Feminism and Social Reproduction Theory)
- Modern Political Philosophy (State Theory, Social Conflict, and Constituent Power)
- Contemporary Political Philosophy (M. Foucault, G. Deleuze and F. Guattari, N. Poulantzas, A. Negri and Italian Operaismo, R. Esposito)
- Contemporary Capitalism and New Forms of Labour (Cognitive and Platform Capitalism, Free Digital Labour)
- Latin American Political Thought (J. C. Mariátegui, C. Torres, E. Dussel, A. Quijano, S. Castro-Gómez, Á. García Linera, R. Segato)
Institutional positions
2026-. Full Researcher at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society.
2026. Visiting Scholar at the National University of Colombia, Bogotá.
2024-2026. Assistant Temporaire Enseignement et Recherche (Visiting Assistant Professor), Sciences Po Lyon.
2023-. Associate researcher, Laboratoire Sophiapol, University of Paris Nanterre.
2023-. Faculty Member of the Institute for the Radical Imagination Summer School (USA/ Greece)
2023-2024. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi di Torino.
2023-2024. Adjunct Professor, Nouveau Collège d’Études Politiques, University of Paris Lumières.
2022-2023. Assistant Temporaire Enseignement et Recherche (Visiting Assistant Professor), University of Paris Nanterre, Philosophy Department.
2022. Visiting PhD Scholar, Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, Columbia University.
2018-2023. Adjunct Professor, University of Paris Nanterre, Philosophy Department, and University of Paris Lumières.
Books
Book chapters
Articles
2026. Découvrir Foucault. Les éditions sociales.
2026. With Séminaire Capitalisme Cognitif (eds.). Negri au-delà de Negri. Travail, subjectivités et critique du capital. Mimesis Fr.
2024. Marxismi foucaultiani: una mappa critica. Mimesis It.
2026. w/ F. Brancaccio, A. Di Gesu, and D. Gallo Lassere. “Toni Negri et les luttes des classes en France.” Negri au-delà de Negri: subjectivités, travail et critique du capital. Edited by Séminaire Capitalisme Cognitif Collective. Mimesis, 19-30.
2026. “Disciplina/Disciplinamento.” Vocabolario dell’illibertà: Trenta parole per comprendere la crisi della democrazia. Edited by L. M. Lanzillo and L. Scuccimarra. Carocci, 65-72.
2021. “La critica immanente e il posto del conflitto. Sulla ‘quarta generazione’ della Scuola di Francoforte.” Respublica: la forma del conflitto. Almanacco di Filosofia e Politica III. Edited by A. Di Gesu and P. Missiroli. Quodlibet.
2025. “Power(s) or Exploitation: On a ‘Point of Heresy’ between Foucault and Marx”, Journal of Historical Materialism, 1-39.
2025. “From Adversity to Heresy: Towards a Disjunctive Conjunction of Foucault and Marx”, Genealogy & Critique, 11(1), 1-21.
2025. “Estrapolazioni selvagge: Antonio Negri lettore di Michel Foucault”, Engramma. La tradizione classica nel pensiero occidentale, 221.
2024. “Par-delà vitalisme et historicisime. Sur une ambiguité constitutive du pouvoir constituent d’Antonio Negri”, Multitudes, 96, 62-66.
2024. “Normatività come ideologia. Da Foucault a Marx ed Engels”, Scienza & Politica, XXXVI(70), 177-200.
2023. w/ J. Farja. “Langage et critique sociale dans les Manuscrits de 1844 de Marx”, Implications Philosophiques, June 2023.
2019. “Logica e pratica dell’inchiesta: Romano Alquati et Michel Foucault”, Materiali foucaultiani. VII(13/14).
2019. w/ J. Allavena. “Co-Research as Counterinstitution”, The South Atlantic Quarterly, 118(2), 457-469.
2018. “Neomarxismo ieri e oggi”, Storia del pensiero politico, 3, 475-488.