Gopal Balakrishnan

Gopal Balakrishnan
Fields	Political theory
Institutions	University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Chicago
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles
Influences	Carl Schmitt, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Perry Anderson, Fredric Jameson

Gopal Balakrishnan is a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working on political thought, intellectual history, and critical theory.

Balakrishnan studied European intellectual history and historical sociology at UCLA during the 1990s with Perry Anderson, Robert Brenner, Rogers Brubaker, and Michael Mann.

Prior to moving to Santa Cruz, he was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. He is currently a member of the editorial board of the New Left Review.^[1]

Selected publications

Books

• Balakrishnan, Gopal; Anderson, Benedict, eds. (1996). "Mapping the nation". Verso.
• Balakrishnan, Gopal (2000). "The enemy: an intellectual portrait of Carl Schmitt". Verso.
• Balakrishnan, Gopal, ed. (2003). "Debating Empire". Verso.
• Balakrishnan, Gopal (2009). "Antagonistics: capitalism and power in an age of war". Verso.

Articles

• Balakrishnan, Gopal (September–October 2000). "Hardt and Negri's Empire". New Left Review (New Left Review) II (5).

Review of the book Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri.

• Balakrishnan, Gopal (September–October 2003). "Algorithms of war". New Left Review (New Left Review) II (23).

Review of the book The Shield of Achilles by Philip Bobbitt.

• Balakrishnan, Gopal (September–October 2009). "Speculations on the stationary state". New Left Review (New Left Review) II (59).
• Balakrishnan, Gopal (November–December 2010). "The coming contradiction". New Left Review (New Left Review) II (66).

Review of the book Valences of the Dialectic by Frederic Jameson.

References

1. Faculty Homepage at UC Santa Cruz

External links

• Review of The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt