Studies in Material Thinking - Special Issue
Transversal Practices focuses on how art, subjects, collectives, politics and thinking are in the making; how they take-form and transform in relation to other elements, both human and nonhuman.
This special issue is concerned with ecologies and geographies where intensities of movement are aligned with and embrace hands-on attitude of artistic, scientific, therapeutic, ethnographical, and philosophical praxis.
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Papers included in Volume 16:
Editorial
Estelle Barrett, Barbara Bolt, and Katve-Kaisa Kontturi
Knowing as Distributed Practice: Twenty-first Century Encounters with the Universe
Maaike Bleeker
For a Pragmatics of the Useless, or The Value of the Infrathin
Erin Manning
More than material: art and the incorporeality of the event
Dr Terri Bird
A Literary Practice for Crises of Ecologies: Tim Winton, Timothy Morton and the writing of the Hyperobject Global Warming in(to) Eyrie
David S. Harris
SPEAK matter, SPEAK!
Julieanna Preston
Transversal travels: The relational movements and environmental intensities of packing a bag
Kaya Barry
Interrogating Time and Meaning: Aligning Art Criticism, Conservation, Cultural Context and Materiality
Robyn Sloggett
Memory, Image, Matter: Trauma and Acts of Un-forgetting
Estelle Barrett
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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Networking European Scholarship on 'How matter comes to matter’
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