ERINAKIS NIKOS


ERINAKIS NIKOS

Nikos Erinakis [b. 1988, Athens] is an Asst. Professor of Social & Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Culture at the University of Crete and Adj. Professor at the University of Athens and the Hellenic Open University. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy [University of London & recognised research student at the University of Oxford], having studied Economics [AUEB], Philosophy & Literature [Warwick] and Philosophy of the Social Sciences [LSE]. He has taught for several years at the University of London and the Athens School of Fine Arts. He is also the Director of Research at the think-tank ENA (mainly funded by E.U. research programmes and grants), while he is a board member of the Greek Youth Symphony Orchestra and has been a board member of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival and the Corfu International Festival.

He has been honoured by the Academy of Athens with the Award for Excellent Philosophical Treatise for his philosophy book Authenticity and Autonomy: From Creativity to Freedom (Keimena, 2020). He has also published three poetry books (Soon everything will burn and light up your eyes, Roes 2009; In-Between where the shadow falls, 1st ed. Gavriilides 2013, 2nd ed. Keimena 2021; Still getting baptized, Keimena 2022) the third of which was shortlisted for the State Prize for Poetry and the second of which has been translated and published in France; two anthologies of poems by major modern European poets Georg Trakl (Dark Love of a Wild Generation, 1st ed. Gavriilides 2011, 2nd edition: Keimena 2021) and Paul Celan (North of the Future, Gavriilides 2017) translated by him; and four edited collections of essays.

He currently teaches and publishes extensively on Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Digitality. His critically acclaimed poems, papers and articles have been widely translated and published in international peer-reviewed journals, edited collections, anthologies and the popular press. He gives lectures and organizes workshops & art/science events all around Europe, the U.K., the U.S.A. and North Africa.

 More about author: 
First name:  Nikos
Last name:  Erinakis
Projects: 
  1. Nikos Erinakis, Authenticity and Autonomy: From Creativity to Freedom, Athens: Keimena Press, (Series: Philosophy), 2020. [Academy of Athens Αward "as an excellent treatise for the philosophical treatment of human activity".]

 

  1. Nikos Erinakis, Still being baptized, Athens: Keimena, 2022.

 

  1. Nikos Erinakis, In between where the shadow falls, Athens: Gavrielides, 2013.

 

  1. Nikos Erinakis, Entre les ombres, trans. Clio Mavroeidakos-Muller, Paris: Desmos, 2018.

 

  1. Nikos Erinakis, Soon everything will be burning and will lit your eyes up, Athens: Printa/Rhoes, 2009.

 

  1.  Nikos Erinakis (ed.), Image/Logos: Research Issues and Contemporary Approaches, Athens: Eurasia/Stigmos, 2022.

 

  1. Nikos Erinakis (ed.), Contemporary Political Thought and Alternative Policies, Athens: ENA, 2023.

 

  1. Paul Celan: Northern from Future [addendum: George Steiner], Introduction-translation- commentary: Nikos Erinakis, Athens: Gavrielides, 2017.

 

  1. Georg Trakl: Dark Love of Wild Generation [addendum: Martin Heidegger], Introduction- translation-commentary: Nikos Erinakis, Athens: Gavrielides, 2011.

 

  1. Eileen Myles, Eva and other poems, translated by Nikos Erinakis et al., Athens: Antipodes, 2022.

Date of birth:  1988
Birth place:  ATHENS
Abstract title:  [Selection of poems from the poetry book
Abstract text: 

[Still Getting Baptized]

 

Summer days of two thousand eight

A century later;

Still unemployed

 

From Dalston to Jericho

       And back

Sometimes in Loukianou

   Sometimes around Valtetsiou

 

Unflowered I wear black again

        And grow a beard

 

I meet you anew
      We attempt the miracle

                            To the uncontinuum

    We discover scars

 

With fair fears
           In arbitrary times and places

 

Between the sun and an open vein

 

The past had other plans for us

 

We are baptized
         To the bitter orange trees that blossom

   To the city center streets

 

                   Crisis fountains

     Water us more

 

Circular rhythms shine

 

And as before was not a celebration

Likewise, now is not despair

 

We will suffer this peace too

 

Whatever was cosmos;

Cosmos remains

 

[the most fascinating curve of rupture]

 

our lives now correspond

to something unexpectedly approaching

it seems like a great day to hide

 

I find my self in the without you streets

the moments still involve you

the morrow requires you

 

I strive to bring back

all that fled

 

with the wisdom bestowed by insecurity

I squeeze myself into a random ending

 

I feel your gut in mine

escorting me in shrapneled dreams

you strip all ornament

and I surrender to the tyranny of candor

 

matters are toughter

than we are

 

I age

and yet these moments still exist

 

life is another, truth is another and we another

 

let’s compare mythologies

I’ll go all in

 

we met at the most fascinating curve of rupture

 

are you leaving ?

or maybe you like the way it burns

 

liquid flow that swipes away,

I’ll meet you at the unexpected;

 

where nothing wounds anymore

 

Ø [The fifth hammer]

 

The sacred hides in the new

The only mythical era is the future

 

O Dionysius, you proud sage

You hit the fifth hammer

                                    the most restless one

 

In the end of shine in the beginning of life

 

So says a potential blind man

To an already blind one

 

I who knew nothing put an end to her

I with my wisdom alone

 

Like the words of soothsayers

Summoning lame demons

 

Βίος-Θάνατος-Βίος

How many springs have you lived

 

107 paces

Wrath and melancholy 

Non-aligned cosmogony

 

A golden circle

 

And within a sea of many names

Though it shouldn’t have any

 

An eagle and a snake hide

In the four points

 

They belong to the Masters of the Breath

 

And life’s experience

Unapproachable

 

[I want to kiss you where death seems easier]                    

 

I discovered you enthusiastic

Among the souls of the dead playing around you

 

And I felt your tongue in my blood

 

Everyone talked about the benefit you’d reveal to me

 

So tell me from where so many dead come out

 

Melancholy is not a feeling

But a way of existing

 

As when you rest your face on your knees

And look out as if hearing the waves

Of that sea we had renounced

 

Then again should you find errors amorous

How much will hope hurt us do you think

 

If I must yield

Then I’ll yield to imagination

 

Where I’m now it’s raining

And you are very beautiful in the photo

 

You bear the motion

The mania of panic

 

But our rebel love affair

Is still threatened by love

 

We don’t know how to say I love you

Without salt on our lips

 

We’ll live between two mirrors

 

What’s so wrong about you

That makes me love you so

 

I want to kiss you

Where death seems easier


Awards: 

Athens Academy Award 2022, I.K.Y. Full Scholarship for Doctoral Studies, University of London Full Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies, Shortlist for the State Poetry Award 2023.


E-mail:  nikos.erinakis@gmail.com