Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms

Felicity Colman is Professor of Media Arts at University of the Arts, London. She is the author of Film Theory: Creating a Cinematic Grammar (Wallflower Press, 2014), Deleuze and Cinema: The Film Concepts (2011, Berg), Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers (Acumen, 2009) and Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life (CSP, 2007). Iris van der Tuin is Professor of Theory of Cultural Inquiry at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She is the co-author of New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies (OHP, 2012). She is author of Generational Feminism: A New Materialist Introduction to a Generative Approach (Lexington Books, 2015). She chaired the COST Action New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on ‘How Matter comes to Matter. Rosi Braidotti is a Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Honorary Professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She is a feminist Continental philosopher and she holds degrees in philosophy from the ANU and the Sorbonne and Honorary Degrees from Helsinki, (2007) and Linkoping (2013). She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) and also a Member of the Academia Europaea. In 2022 she received the Humboldt Research Award for life-long contribution to scholarship. Her publications include: Nomadic Subjects (2011), and Nomadic Theory (2011); The Posthuman (2013), Posthuman Knowledge (2019); Posthuman Feminism (2022); The Posthuman Glossary (2018) and More Posthuman Glossary (2022).

New Materialism is one of the most coherent and influential movements in contemporary continental thought. In this collection, anchored by a fiery preface from leading New Materialist Rosi Braidotti, Colman and van der Tuin assemble a wide range of articles that push this paradigm further. The reader will find many provocative ideas in this volume.

• AcknowledgementsPreface ‘A Becoming-world of Collective Knowledge Practices’ by Rosi BraidottiNotes on ContributorsList of FiguresIntroduction ‘New Materialisms: Quantum Ideation across Dissonance’ by Vera Bühlmann, Felicity Colman and Iris van der TuinPart I: Changing Genealogies of New Materialisms1. Introduction to Genealogies: Mapping the New Materialist Terra Incognita by Rick Dolphijn2. Bibliography and a Feminist Apparatus of Literary Production by Katie King3. An Atomist Genealogy of New Materialism by Katerina Kolozova and Stanimir Panayotov4. A Feminist Critical Cartography of New Materialisms by Evelien Geerts5. Curated Panel ‘Genealogies and Apparatuses of New Materialist Production’ by Aurora Hoel and Sam Skinner with contributions from Jelena Djuric, David Gauthier, Evelien Geerts, Sofie Sauzet, and Maria TamboukouPart II: Intersecting the Natural and Human Sciences through New Materialisms1. Introduction: Provocations of New Materialisms on the Crossroads of the Natural and Human Sciences by Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer, Josef Barla, and Peta Hinton2. Reading Science – Caring with Microbes by Astrid Schrader3. Thinking through the Disruptive Effects and Affects of the Coronavirus with Feminist New Materialism by Simone Fullagar and Adele Pavlidis4. Un/Re-making Method: Knowing/Enacting Posthumanist Performative Social Research Methods through ‘Diffractive Genealogies’ and ‘Metaphysical Practices’ by Natasha S. Mauthner5. Curated Panel ‘New Materialisms Across the Natural Sciences and Humanities: Trajectories, Inspirations, and Stirrings’ by Peta Hinton, Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer, Josef Barla, Veit Braun, Claude Draude, Waltraud Ernst, Xin Liu, Natasha Mauthner, Sigrid Schmitz, Jiřina Šmejkalová, and Marianna SzczygielskaPart III: Practicing the Creative Arts for New Materialisms1. New Materialisms and (the Study of) Arts: A Mapping of Co-Emergence by Katve-Kaisa Kontturi and Milla Tiainen2. Working Hot: Materialising Practices by Barbara Bolt3. Mapping Sounding Art: Affect, Place, Memory by Norie Neumark4. Curated Panel ‘Art as Laboratory for Modes of Being-With’ by Marie-Luise Angerer, Irina Kaldrack, and Martina Leeker with contributions from Taru Leppänen and Heidi Fast; Žilvinė Gaižutytė-Filipavičienė and Basia Nikiforova; Nevena Dakovic and Neda Radulovic; Felicity Colman and Helen PalmerPart IV: Transforming Economic and Identity-Political Crises and Organizational Experiments for New Materialisms 1. Introduction: Reality Check – (Re)calibrating New Materialisms by Olga Cielemęcka, Monika Rogowska-Stangret, and Whitney Stark2. The Runaway Weirdness of Money: New Old Materialism for the Anthropocene by Arun Saldanha3. Doing Homework: Encountering Indigenous and New Materialist Onto-Epistemologies in Educational Research by Nikki Rotas, Fikile Nxumalo, Marc Higgins, Brooke Madden, and Veronica Pacini-KetchabawCo-authored Chapter ‘The Politics of New Materialism and Organizational Experiments in Academia’ by Doris Allhutter, Brigitte Bargetz, Katja Brøgger, Olga Cielemęcka, Ana M. González Ramos, Hanna Meissner, Beatriz Revelles Benavente, Monika Rogowska-Stangret, Dorthe Staunæs, Whitney Stark, and Kathrin Thiele