Postcollectivity

Agnieszka Jelewska is Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland, where she also received her Ph.D. She is a co-founder of Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center AMU. Jelewska has authored several books and a number of articles on media and environmental studies including Nuclear Gaia: Media Archives of Planetary Harm (with Michał Krawczak, forthcoming 2025).Michał Krawczak is an Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland, where he defended his Ph.D. He is a co-founder of Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center AMU. He is an author of books and articles on media critique, including Aesthetics of Radical Truth (with Agnieszka Jelewska, forthcoming 2025).Julian Reid is Professor of International Relations at the University of Lapland, Finland. He was educated at King's College London, the University of Amsterdam and wrote his Ph.D. at the University of Lancaster. He is the author of several books, including Becoming Indigenous: Governing Imaginaries in the Anthropocene (coauthored with David Chandler, Rowman & Littlefield: 2019).

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPostcollectivity New Ways of Gathering and Practicing in Times of CrisesAgnieszka Jelewska, Michał Krawczak and Julian ReidPart 1Resistivity1 ResistanceJulian Reid2 Carnivalesque Postcollectivity Reenactment as Decolonial SubversionAdela Goldbard3 Collecting Crumbs of Lost Knowledge Learning from Postindustrial and Postsocialist DisruptionsAndrzej W. Nowak4 BorderformsGrant Leuning and Pepe Rojo5 The Networked Public Sphere and the Sectarian PublicStephen DersleyPart 2Co-existence6 Collective Co-existence, Climate Apocalypse, and a Nature-Relational Way ForwardPeter H. Kahn, Jr., Sarena Sabine and Carly E. Gray7 As I Sit Down to Write a Monsoon Story without Cloud BandsHarshavardhan Bhat8 A Meteorology of MediaBrett Zehner9 Not-Only-Human-Habitat, or Pedagogies of Vulnerable Collectives in the Age of Extractivist FantasiesAnna Nacher10 Media Warfare The Coercive Coexistence of Radiation and MemoryAgnieszka JelewskaPart 3Transversality11 The Right to Breathe Is the Right to Speak The Transversality of Environmental Pollution and Postdigital InfrastructuresMichał Krawczak12 Transversal Physiognomies and the Postcollective SelfJan Stasieńko13 The Silicon Gender Technological Species and the Transgression of Model SexesAnia Malinowska14 Towards a Postmonetary CollectivityJens SchröterIndex