Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, and the Director of The Critical Life Studies Research Team at Linköping University. From 2023-2024, I was on a one-year, Riksbanken Jubileumsfond funded sabbatical Life’s Pasts and Futures: On Being and Science.
RESEARCH/TEACHING AREAS: 19th and 20th century European philosophy; contemporary Continental philosophy; critical theory; social and political thought; queer, trans, gender, sexuality, and feminist theory; critical race and decolonial theory; history and philosophy of science and technology; Anthropocene, climate, animal, and posthuman theory; modern literature and literary theory.
Please contact me if you are interested in finding ways to collaborate. I am available to lecture, supervise/examine at the doctoral or postdoctoral level, collaborate on joint research projects, evaluate grant applications, or serve as an external reviewer in any of the fields listed.
CONTACT: jami [at] jamiweinstein.net
CURRENT RESEARCH
FORTHCOMING
BOOKS
Vital Ontologies: The Facts of Life, Reconsidered (monograph, Columbia University Press, expected in 2025)
Epigenesis: Critical Theory for the 21st Century, co-written with Claire Colebrook (Open Humanities Press/MIT, expected in 2025).
Theory at the End of the World: Thinking with Claire Colebrook, co-edited with Rachel Loewen Walker, Rick Elmore, Vernon Cisney, eds. (Columbia University Press, expected in mid-2025).
Editor, with “Foreword” and “Posthumous Conclusions”: Michel Tibon-Cornillot’s TheLaboratory Planet: Instability and the Disappearance ofIndustrial Societies(Columbia University Press, expected in mid-2026).
ARTICLES/CHAPTERS
“Permacrisis, Statelessness, and the Extinction of Being,” in Theory at the End of the World: Thinking with Claire Colebrook (chapter, Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2026).
“On the Fundamental Instability of Life,” and “The Afterlife of the (Laboratory) Planet: Posthumous Reflections,” in Michel Tibon-Cornillot’s The Laboratory Planet: Instability and the Disappearance ofIndustrialSocieties, translated by Taylor Adkins (Columbia University Press, expected in mid-2026).
“From the Cradle to the Caves: Architectures of a New Humanity,” in John Drabinski, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Fanon (chapter, forthcoming 2026).
* Above completed during sabbatical (2023-2024)
PLANNED FUTURE PROJECTS:
Permacrisis and the Future (monograph)
Vital Politics: On Life and Indifference (monograph)
Colebrook, Claire and Jami Weinstein, “Anthropocene Feminisms” special issue of philosSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 2015: 5.2. With Claire Colebrook.
Hayward, Eva and Jami Weinstein, “Tranimalities” special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 2015: 2.2, 195-208. With Eva Hayward.
Colebrook, Claire and Jami Weinstein, “Deleuze and Gender” special issue of Deleuze Studies 2008: 2. Later published as Deleuze and Gender. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
ARTICLES / CHAPTERS
“Is Another World Possible?: On Queer and Black Being and Rethinking the Future,” Lambda Nordica: Journal of LGBTQ Studies. Special issue ‘Thinking Wildly with Jack Halberstam’ (in press).
Colebrook, Claire and Weinstein, Jami, “Preface: Postscript on the Posthuman,” in Jami Weinstein and Colebrook, Claire (eds.) Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.
Weinstein, Jami, “Vital Ethics: On Life and In/difference,” in Alastair Hunt and Stephanie Youngblood, eds. Against Life. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2016.
Colebrook, Claire and Jami Weinstein, “Anthropocene Feminisms: Rethinking the Unthinkable,” in “Anthropocene Feminisms” special issue of philosSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 5.2, 2015. Co-edited by Claire Colebrook and Jami Weinstein.
Weinstein, Jami, “Transgenres and the Plane of Gender Imperceptibility,” in Undutiful Daughters: New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice. Henriette Gunkel, Chrysanthi Nigianni, and Fanny Söderbäck, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Weinstein, Jami, “Dokusåpan: det sociala livet som ett laboratorieexperiment” [Reality TV: Social Life as Laboratory Experiment”], in Fenomenologi, teknik och medialitet [Phenomenology, Technology, and Mediality], Leif Dahlberg & Hans Ruin, eds. Södertörn Philosophical Studies 2011, 185-214.
Weinstein, Jami, “Introduction Part II,” in Claire Colebrook and Jami Weinstein, eds. Deleuze and Gender. Edinburgh University Press, 2008.
Weinstein, Jami and Jeffrey Bussolini, “Comblement/Fulfillment: Toward an Ontological Ethics of Sex,” in Yolanda Estes, Arnold Lorenzo Farr, Patricia Smith, and Clelia Smyth, eds. Marginal Groups and Mainstream American Culture. University Press of Kansas, 2000, 71-95.
CRITICAL LIFE STUDIES BOOK SERIES Columbia University Press Jami Weinstein, Claire Colebrook, Myra Hird. eds.
Paul B. Preciado Foreword by Jack Halberstam
Vincent Bruyere
Giovanni Aloi
Penelope Deutscher
Jami Weinstein & Claire Colebrook, eds.
Luce Irigaray & Michael Marder
Edward S. Casey & Michael Marder
Ali Aslam, David W. McIvor, Joel Alden Schlosser
QUEER FUTURES BOOK SERIES De Gruyter/Dusseldorf University Press Kathrin Dreckmann, Bettina Pappenburg, Jami Weinstein, eds.
ADVISORY BOARD Judith Butler, UC Berkeley Claire Colebrook, Penn State Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, Yale Kodwo Eshun, Goldsmiths Eva Hayward, Utrecht Kara Keeling, USC Jasbir Puar, Rutgers Dirk Schulz, Cologne Jenny Sundén, Södertörn Kathrin Thiele, Utrecht
Bettina Pappenburg and Kathrin Dreckmann, eds.
Emre Busse
PROJECTS
FUNDEDRESEARCH PROJECTS
2023-2024 – Principal investigator, Life’s Pasts and Futures. Sabbatical Grant, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 1.561.000 SEK.
2016-2018 – Co-Investigator, A Tropology of Conceptual Climate Change. The Seed Box: A Mistras‐Formas Environmental Collaboratory, 450.000 SEK
2015-2019 – Principal Investigator,Vital Signs: Life, Theory, and Ethics in an Age of Global Crisis. The Swedish Research Council, 2.055.00 SEK
2014 – Principal Investigator,Life Matters: Affect, Sex, and Control Conference and Critical Life Studies Symposium. The Swedish Research Council, 126.000 SEK
“Against Care: Toward an Ethics of Indifference and Multiplicity,” ‘Who Cares?’ In Contemporary Women’s Writing & Film seminar series, Institute for Languages, Cultures, and Societies, School of Advanced Study University of London • 21/5/22
“Vital Philology: On Critique and Life,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (virtual conference) • 18/9/21
“Epigenesis/Epigenetics: Rethinking Personal Identity in a Post-Genetic Framework,” Philosophy Department, Linköping University, SE • 26/5/21.
“Queer Life in Epigenetic Times,” Queerseminariet, Uppsala University, SE • 24/9/18
“Fatal Attraction: Epistemic Politics and Obsessive Conceptual Disorder,” A Critique of Our Own: On the Epistemic Habits of Academic Feminism Conference,University of Turku, FI • 15/4/16
“The Metahumanism of the Anthropocene,” Anthropocene Feminism, C21 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, US • 13/4/14
“Cruising Dystopia: Queerfeminist Futurities and the Anthropocene,” Keynote, Pervot Perinteet – Queer Traditions, University of Turku, FI • 26/9/14
“Wild Life: The Prospect of a Posthumous Indifference Ethics,” Mattering: Feminism, Science & Materialism, City University of New York, US • 15/2/13
“Wild Life: The Prospect of a Posthumous Indifference Ethics,” The Posthuman: Differences, Embodiments, Performativity, Universita di Roma III, IT • 14/9/13
“Theory Sex as a Feminist Method,” Association for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics and Science Studies (FEMMSS) Conference, Pennsylvania State University, US • 12/5/12
“Posthuman Affect Redux,” Between Bodies: Emotion, Sense, Affect, Uppsala University, SE • 19/11/10
“Posthuman Affect,” Affective Tendencies International Conference, Rutgers University, US • 8/10/10
“Posthumous Life: Toward an Inhuman Ethico-politics,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Philadelphia, US • 21/10/11
“The Move to Genre: Evolution and Imperceptibility,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Montreal, CA 5/11/10 and University of Dundee, Scotland, UK • 3/2/10
“Reality TV: Life in the Petri Dish,” KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm, SE • 11/3/09
CURRICULUM VITAE
POSITIONS
2021-present – Uppsala University (SE), Researcher and Senior Lecturer at Centre for Gender Research
2014-present – Linköping University (SE), Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer, Director of The Critical Life Studies Research Group, Gender Studies; Senior Lecturer, English.
2010-2014 – Linköping University (SE), University Associate Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Director of The Zoontology Research Team, Gender Studies
2008-2010 – Utrecht University (NL), Assistant Professor, Gender and Media Studies Department
2006-2008 – Mount Holyoke College (US), Assistant Professor, Gender Studies and Philosophy Departments
Fall 2005 – Södertörn University College (SE), Visiting Researcher, Gender Studies
2001-2006 – Vassar College (US), Visiting Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies, Philosophy, Science and Technology, and Environmental Studies Departments
1997-2001 – Bernard Baruch College, City University of New York (US), Lecturer, Graduate Teaching Fellow, Philosophy Department
Spring 1997 – Purchase College, State University of New York (US), Lecturer, Philosophy Department
1994-1997 – Hunter College, City University of New York (US), Lecturer, Graduate Teaching Fellow, Philosophy Department
1993-1998 – John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (US), , Lecturer, Philosophy Department
EDUCATION
2013 – Linköping University – Docent (Habilitation)
2007 – L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (FR) – Doctorat in Histoires des Techniques
2005 – City University of New York Graduate School (US) – Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Philosophy and Certificate in Women’s Studies
1999-2000 – Université de Paris IV (FR) – Visiting doctoral student
1995 – New York University (US) – Master’s Degree in Philosophy
1990 – Barnard College, Columbia University (US) – Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Political Science
1988-1989 – Gonzaga University in Florence (IT) – International exchange student
