Academic practices and utopias

• Publications

"Reality Check - (Re)calibrating New Materialisms" by Olga Cielemecka, Monika Rogowska-Stangret and Whitney Stark. In Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms, 2024, eds. Felicity Colman, Iris van der Tuin, Edinburgh University Press, 329-341.

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"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,

In Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms, 2024, eds. Felicity Colman, Iris van der Tuin, Edinburgh University Press, 384-406.

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“Connectivity in Times of Control: Writing/Undoing/ Unpacking/Acting Out Power Performances.” Whitney Stark, Beatriz Revelles-Benavente, and Olga Cielemęcka. Feminist Review, 28 October 2020.

“Vulnerable Academic Performances: A Dialogue on Matters of Voice and Silence in Academia," Monika Rogowska-Stangret and Olga Cielemęcka. Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research 1(1), 2020: 23-51.

“Roundtable Discussion: Thinking Together from within the Times that Worry Us.” Gurminder K Bhambra, Mariya Ivancheva, Andrea Peto, Jessie Loyer, and Nanna Hlín Halldórsdóttir. Cureted by Olga Cielemęcka and Monika Rogowska-Stangret. Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research 1(1): 80-109.

“Knowmadic knowledge production in times of crisis,” Olga Cielemecka and Beatriz Revelles Benavente. In Teaching Gender: Feminist Pedagogy and Responsibility in Time of Political Crisis, eds. B. Revelles Benavente, A. M. González Ramos. London and New York: Routledge, 2017: 25–41. [Spanish translation: Olga Cielemecka and Beatriz Revelles Benavente, “Producción de conocimento ‘knowmada’ en tiempos de crisis,” In: Género en la Educación. Pedagogía y Responsabilidad Feministas en Tiempos de Crisis Política, eds. B. Revelles Benavente, A. M. González Ramos, Madrid: Morata, 2018: 49–65.​]

“ʻLet the thinking breathe.’ Corporeal-Thinking in Classroom Settings.” In: Theories of Affect and Concepts in Generic Skills Education: Adventurous Encounters, eds. E. Just and W. Grahn, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017: 151–170.

“Stigmergy as a Collective Research Practice,” Olga Cielemecka and Monika Rogowska-Stangret. In: Imagine there were no humanities… Transdisciplinary perspectives, eds. I. Ackermann, K. Chruszczewska, E. R. Janion, Á. Máté, N. Obukowicz. Warsaw: DiG, 2015: 51–59.

• Collaborations

New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on ‘How Matter Comes to Matter,’ European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action IS1307 (2015-2018).

Manifesto. New Materialisms and Organizational Experiments in the Context of Contemporary Political and Economic Crises. 2015. Collectively written by working group “New Materialisms Tackling Economical and Identity-Political Crises and Organizational Experiments” of COST Action IS1307.

• Past events

Writing with Undisciplined Discipline: An Environmental Humanities Workshop. Collectively organised by environmental humanities researchers (from KTH: Jesse Peterson, Johan Gärdebo, Irma Allen, Daniele Valisena, and Isabel Ramos-Perez, from LIU: Olga Cielemecka and Anna Kaijser. Seed Box Funding Award, Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden, 2016.

Help Us Imagine a Collective Writing, Reviewing, and Publishing Process for an Academic Journal, workshop organised by working group on new materialisms and politics at the 7th Annual Conference on New Materialisms. Performing Situated Knowledges: Space, Time, and Vulnerability. Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, September 22, 2016.

Member of organisational committee: 7th Annual Conference on New Materialisms. Performing Situated Knowledges: Space, Time, and Vulnerability, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, September 22, 2016.

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• Praxiography*: Practices and Institutions 

Special section of Matter: A Journal of New Materialist Research.

We invite bold explorations of ways of organizing, living, and imagining various praxes – in academia, teaching, art, or activism. We welcome on a continuous basis theoretical, experiential, and experimental contributions from a variety of feminist perspectives. 

Section editors: Monika Rogowska-Stangret and Olga Cielemęcka