Greg Bird is an Associate Professor of Sociology, Cultural Analysis and Social Theory at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is a social and political theorist with a focus on contemporary Italian philosophy and biopolitics. His first book Containing Community won the Symposium Book Award (SUNY Press, 2016). He has published several articles and chapters in English and Italian, co-edited three books and four special journal issues.
He is developing a metatheoretical framework for interpreting dispositifs (apparatuses) in a trilogy of books. The first book was published as an anthology (Dispositif: A Cartography, 2023). He is currently wr…
Greg Bird is an Associate Professor of Sociology, Cultural Analysis and Social Theory at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is a social and political theorist with a focus on contemporary Italian philosophy and biopolitics. His first book Containing Community won the Symposium Book Award (SUNY Press, 2016). He has published several articles and chapters in English and Italian, co-edited three books and four special journal issues.
He is developing a metatheoretical framework for interpreting dispositifs (apparatuses) in a trilogy of books. The first book was published as an anthology (Dispositif: A Cartography, 2023). He is currently writing the second installment covering the genealogy of dispositifs in contemporary theory (Dispositif: A Genealogy). The final book will be an applied study of dispositifs (Henry Ford: Master Engineer).
