Cultural Studies Review Vol. 21, No. 2
Special Issue on New Materialisms. 2015.
Editors: Milla Tiainen (FI, WG3), Katve-Kaisa Kontturi (FI, WG3), Ilona Hongisto (FI, WG4, Action Think Tank)
Contributors: Katve-Kaisa Kontturi (FI, WG3), Estelle Barrett (AU, WG3), Barb Bolt (AU, WG3), Ilona Hongisto (FI, WG4), Jussi Parikka (GB), Milla Tiainen (FI, WG3), Kathrin Thiele (NL, WG4, Training School coordination), Iris van der Tuin (NL, chair, WG1), and Cecilia Åsberg (SE, WG2)
Articles selected at IV NM conference Turku, Finland.
The distinctive practices of arts and cultural production and issues of aesthetics in relation to art and ontology in contemporary media cultures raise important questions for new materialisms. Because of their distinctly human-centred traditions, arts and humanities face a big challenge, in developing the kinds of non human-centric understandings of reality and the human that are so desperately needed in today's technological, ecological, natural–cultural terrains. This collection of essays makes a significant and wide-ranging contribution to arts and humanities perspectives on the methodological, analytical and ethico-political development of new materialisms.
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COST Action IS1307 New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How Matter Comes to Matter'.
Here you will find background material, current activities, calls for papers, working group information, and project outputs.
With the changing of societies on local, national and international scales owing to economic, ecological, political and technological developments and crises, a reorganized academic landscape can be observed to be emerging. Scholarship strives to become increasingly interdisciplinary in order to grasp and examine the unfolding complexity of ongoing ecological, socio-cultural and politico-economic changes. Additionally, academics forge... Read more or find out Who's Who
- Call for Papers - Technology Matters and Matters of Technology: Exploring Theories of "Materiality" for Technology Research - June 25, 2018
- The return of materialism(s)? Matter between science, theory and art - University of Iceland
- Call for Entries - New Materialism Almanac 2018
- Urban Matters: Material Engagements with Communities and Borders in Times of Movement
Information relating to activities undertaken, including conferences, training schools, short-term scientific missions, and annual meetings, are archived here.
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- 7th Annual Conference: Performing Situated Knowledges: Space, Time, Vulnerability
- From Cosmos to Genes: New Materialist Methodologies Crossing the Humanities, Natural, and Technosciences
- MC Meetings: Barcelona, Maribor and Warsaw
- Training School 2: Research Genealogies and Material Practices
Working Groups focus on four key areas of research
Working Group One
Genealogies of New Materialisms; examines and intervenes in canonization processes by compiling a web-based bibliography, coordinating the OST 068/13 8 EN... Read more
Working Group Two
New Materialisms on the Crossroads of the Natural and Human Sciences; seeks to develop new materialisms at the boundaries of the human and natural sciences. The group focuses on how European new materialisms can rework the ‘Two Cultures' gap... Read more
Working Group Three
New Materialisms Embracing the Creative Arts; brings together European researchers, artists, museum professionals, and other activists with a keen interest in the material... Read more
Working Group Four
New Materialisms Tackling Economical and Identity – Political Crises and Organizational Experiments... Read more
2016–18
The Almanac comprises contributions from members of working groups, and participants in related activities, delineating key terms, more esoteric neologisms, and short provocations. Read more
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