!1New Materialisms Reading Group 2016 Spring & Summer Terms Research and Practice MA and PhD students from all disciplines are welcome to participate. Topic: The New Materialisms [NM], in their focus on the actions of cultural materials, and the relevance of NM theories for the creative arts. We will read a range of critical approaches, consider different theoretical positions, and influences. Foregrounded will be work by Feminist New Materialist thinkers who have advanced the theoretical area, such as Donna Haraway, Karan Barad, Rosi Braidotti, and Iris van der Tuin, in addition to a range of speculative realist thinkers, including Catherine Malabou, and theorists and philosophers of art and media art technologies, including Bernard Stiegler, Kathryn Hayles, Jussi Parrika. Format: Each meeting of the two-hour group will consist of an in-depth reading and discussion of a text by a New Materialist thinker, sometimes alongside secondary texts by other theorists or philosophers. This is not a seminar, and all participants should do the core readings prior to the meeting.
Participants are expected to acquire the literature themselves, but wherever possible I will make pdf files available. Time: 15.00-17:00 Monthly Wednesdays Location: MIRIAD. Righton Building. Upstairs open space . Reading group convener: Felicity Colman contact:
[email protected] Please email Felicity with your expression of interest to attend 2016 Spring + Summer term Meeting Dates + topics: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Jan 20 : Diffractive methodology Feb 3: Agency, intra-actions, and agential realism March 9 Historical Materialism, and Cultural Materialisms April 13 Onto-Epistemology May 11 Technology June 15 Industrial temporalization July 6 Posthuman materialisms Background Reading Materials: Cole, Andrew. 2015. “Those Obscure Objects of Desire”, Artforum (Summer) : 318 – 323. Dieter, Michael “New Materialism and Non-Humanisation, an Interview with Jussi Parikka” Published in the Speculative Realities ebook. http://v2.nl/archive/articles/new-materialism-and-non-200bhumanisation *Dolphijn, Rick and Iris van der Tuin. 2012. New Materialism: Interviews and Cartographies. Ann Arbor, MI: Open Humanities Press. (section 5) Online: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/ohp/11515701.0001.001 Iliadis, Andrew. 2014. “Iris van der Tuin” [Interview] (December 28th) Figure/Ground http:// figureground.org/interview-with-iris-van-der-tuin/?print=pdf McLean-Ferris, Laura (2013) “Indifferent Objects” Art Monthly (368: July-August): http://www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/article/indifferent-objects-by-laura-mclean-ferris-julyaugust-2013 !2 SESSION 1: NM & diffractive methodologies Reading Materials: Haraway, Donna. 1992. “The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others” in Cultural Studies Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, Paula A. Treichler (eds.), New York; Routledge, pp. 295-337. http://www.zbi.ee/~kalevi/monsters.html Barad, Karen (2003) “Posthumanist Performativity. Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter,” in Signs, Vol. 28, No. 3, pages 801-831. http://humweb.ucsc.edu/feministstudies/faculty/barad/ barad-posthumanist.pdf Further Reading: Bergson, Henri. Matter and Memory. New York: Zone. [Intro + Chapter 1.] http://files.cargocollective.com/ 616824/henri-bergson-matter-and-memory-zone-books-edition-1.pdf Barad, Karen. 2012. ‘Interview with Karen Barad’. In Dolphijn, R. and van der Tuin, I. (eds), New Materialism: Interviews and Cartographies. Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 48–70 Online: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/ohp/11515701.0001.001 Van der Tuin, Iris 2014. Generational Feminism. New Materialist Introduction to a Generational Approach. Lexington. SESSION 2: The NM concepts of agency, intra-actions, and agential realism Reading Materials: Barad, Karan. 2007. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, Duke University Press. Coole, Diana and Frost, Samantha (eds) (2010). “Introduction” in New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics, Durham: Duke University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822392996 Further Reading: Grattan, Peter. 2014. Speculative Realism: Problems and Prospects. Bloomsbury SESSION 3: NM, Historical Materialism, and Cultural Materialisms
Reading Materials: !3 Kolozova, Katerina (2015) Toward a Radical Metaphysics of Socialism: Marx and Laruelle by Brooklyn, NY: Punctum, http://punctumbooks.com/titles/toward-a-radical-metaphysics-of-socialism/ [free ebook available] Hands, Joss (2014) “From Cultural to New Materialism and Back: The Enduring Legacy of Raymond Williams” in Culture, Theory and Critique, DOI:10.1080/14735784.2014.931782 [also available at: https:// www.academia.edu/7467132/ From_Cultural_to_New_Materialism_and_Back_The_Enduring_Legacy_of_Raymond_Williams ] Williams, Raymond. 1978. “Problems of Materialism,” in New Left Review, (I:109, May/June), pp. 3–17. http://newleftreview.org/I/109/raymond-williams-problems-of-materialism Further Reading: Latour, Bruno. 2011. “Reflections on Etienne Souriau’s Les différents modes d’existence” translated by Stephen Muecke, in The Speculative Turn: Continental. Materialism and Realism, Levi Bryant,. Nick Srnicek, and Graham Harman. (eds.), Melbourne: re.press, http://www.re-press.org/book-files/OA_Version_Speculative_Turn_9780980668346.pdf SESSION 4 : NM Onto-Epistemologies Reading Materials: Haraway, Donna (1988), “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective” Feminist Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3. (Autumn, 1988), pp. 575-599. http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~ewa/Haraway,%20Situated%20Knowledges.pdf Stengers, Isabelle. “Wondering about Materialisms” in in The Speculative Turn: Continental. Materialism and Realism, Levi Bryant,. Nick Srnicek, and Graham Harman. (eds.), Melbourne: re.press, http://www.repress.org/book-files/OA_Version_Speculative_Turn_9780980668346.pdf Chapter 22. Hinton, Peta, Tara Mehrabi, and Josef Barla 2014. “New materialisms/New colonialisms” Position paper for New Materialisms: How Matter Comes to Matter. COST. IS1307. http://newmaterialism.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Subgroup-Position-Paper-_-Newmaterialisms_New-Colonialisms.pdf Further reading: Myers, Natasha 2015 “Introduction” in Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers and Excitable Matter, Duke University Press https://www.academia.edu/13289091/ Read_the_Introduction_to_Rendering_Life_Molecular_Models_Modelers_and_Excitable_Matter_Duke_A ugust_2015_ Hickey-Moody, Anna and Tara Page (eds.) 2014. Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance. Rowman & Littlefield. SESSION 5: NM reading Technologies Reading: !4 Hoel, Aud Sissel and van der Tuin, Iris (2013) ‘The Ontological Force of Technicity: Reading Cassirer and Simondon Diffractively’ in Philosophy &Technology, (26/2), pp. 187-202. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/2131648/ The_Ontological_Force_of_Technicity_Reading_Cassirer_and_Simondon_Diffractively Ertuna, Irmak 2009. “Stiegler and Marx for a Question Concerning Technology,” in Transformations (17; Bernard Stiegler and the Question of Technics) http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_17/article_07.shtml Further Reading: Stiegler, Bernard. Technics and Time. Vols 1-3. Stanford University Press. SESSION 6: Industrial temporalization : Technology, memory, things Reading: Stiegler, Bernard. Technics and Time. Vol 2: Disorientation. Stanford University Press. Further reading: Brown, Nathan. 2014. “Speculation at the crossroads” [Review of Tristan Garcia, Form and Object: A Treatise on Things], in Radical Philosophy. (188) http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/wp-content/files_mf/rp188_reviews_brown_speculative.pdf SESSION 7: Posthuman materialisms Grosz, Elizabeth. Davis, H. and Turpin, E. (2013), ““Time Matters: On Temporality in the Anthropocene: Elizabeth Grosz in Conversation with Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin,” in Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters among Design, Deep Time, Science, and Philosophy, ed. Etienne Turpin. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Open Humanities Press. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/ohp/12527215.0001.001/1:14/--architecture-in-the-anthropocene-encountersamong-design?rgn=div1;view=fulltext;q1=stiegler Braidotti, Rosi. 2013. The Posthuman. London: Polity. https://loomio-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/ uploads/9f612029748144abbac532eac972a227/Rosi%20Braidotti-The%20Posthuman-Polity %20(2013).pdf Further Readings: Bozak, Nadia. 2012. The Cinematic Footprint: Lights, Camera, Natural Resources. Rutgers University Press. !5 Dieter, Michael “New Materialism and Non-Humanisation, an Interview with Jussi Parikka” Published in the Speculative Realities ebook. http://v2.nl/archive/articles/new-materialism-and-non-200bhumanisation Hayles, Katherine. MacCormack, Patricia. 2012. Posthuman Ethics. Palgrave.