Angelica Stathopoulos is a philosopher, translator, and writer. They earned their PhD in 2020 from The New School for Social Research in New York. Their dissertation “Passivity: Essays in Ontology and Ethics” placed passivity at the heart of a new understanding of ontology and ethics by drawing on Ancient thought, Continental philosophy, and queer and feminist theory. With a particular focus on the relation between passivity and femininity, Angelica’s work rethinks our understanding of subjectivity, ethics, and politics by way of experiences of laziness, sleep, eroticism, failure, impotence, and sickness.
Angelica is a postdoctoral fellow at The Institute for Cultural Inquiry Berlin.