Nick Thacker

User Nick Thacker

User PhD Student

Graduate Studies Division

PhD Student

Graduate

History Of Consciousness

I study politics, religion, and literature. My tentative project concerns the religious thought of Italian Marxists and the turn to theology in times of political defeat. 

Selected interests: Marxism, Catholicism, Political Theology, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mario Tronti, Italian workerism, ressourcement theology, Saint Paul, Erich Auerbach, Jacob Taubes, John Henry Newman, Georges Bataille, Giorgio Agamben, Ernst Bloch, liberation theology, Antonio Gramsci, monasticism, Rene Girard.

Book Chapters

"Pasolini, Gramsci and Ideological Catastrophe.The Routledge Handbook on the Lived Experience of Ideology, 2026.

Book Reviews

"Who Cares for Care Workers? Review of Premilla Nadasen's Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism.Theory & Event, vol. 27 no. 3, 2024.

Other Publications

We Always Knew He Was Different: The Gay Life of the World to Come." Bay Area Current, 2025.

Last modified: Aug 08, 2025