Full Description
Most of the phenomena described in this book have arisen as a result of various crises, disasters, threats, and forms of violence (such as wars, refugee crises, and political regimes, but also devastating practices of the anthropogenic drive and environmental pollution). Others are a form of response to new political, social and cultural changes that we are experiencing due to the rapid development of technology or progressive economic stratification. The research perspective proposed in Postcollectivity draws on the authors' approaches, combining academic and theoretical discourse with social engagement and artistic practice with critical thought.
Contributors are: Harshavardhan Bhat, Stephen Dersley, Adela Goldbard, Carly E. Gray, Agnieszka Jelewska, Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Michał Krawczak, Grant Leuning, Ania Malinowska, Anna Nacher, Andrzej W. Nowak, Julian Reid, Pepe Rojo, Sarena Sabine, Jens Schröter, Jan Stasieńko and Brett Zehner.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Postcollectivity New Ways of Gathering and Practicing in Times of Crises
Agnieszka Jelewska, Michał Krawczak and Julian Reid
Part 1
Resistivity
1 Resistance
Julian Reid
2 Carnivalesque Postcollectivity Reenactment as Decolonial Subversion
Adela Goldbard
3 Collecting Crumbs of Lost Knowledge Learning from Postindustrial and Postsocialist Disruptions
Andrzej W. Nowak
4 Borderforms
Grant Leuning and Pepe Rojo
5 The Networked Public Sphere and the Sectarian Public
Stephen Dersley
Part 2
Co-existence
6 Collective Co-existence, Climate Apocalypse, and a Nature-Relational Way Forward
Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Sarena Sabine and Carly E. Gray
7 As I Sit Down to Write a Monsoon Story without Cloud Bands
Harshavardhan Bhat
8 A Meteorology of Media
Brett Zehner
9 Not-Only-Human-Habitat, or Pedagogies of Vulnerable Collectives in the Age of Extractivist Fantasies
Anna Nacher
10 Media Warfare The Coercive Coexistence of Radiation and Memory
Agnieszka Jelewska
Part 3
Transversality
11 The Right to Breathe Is the Right to Speak The Transversality of Environmental Pollution and Postdigital Infrastructures
Michał Krawczak
12 Transversal Physiognomies and the Postcollective Self
Jan Stasieńko
13 The Silicon Gender Technological Species and the Transgression of Model Sexes
Ania Malinowska
14 Towards a Postmonetary Collectivity
Jens Schröter
Index
