More-than-human natures
My research and writing are informed by feminist materialist and posthumanist approaches. They help to dive deep into the entangled, agential, and plural nature of matter, while also articulating matters of gender, race, class, history and politics are woven into the very structure of the stuff of the world.
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Feminist and queer theories challenge the kind of thinking that works by introducing cuts and formulating the reality in terms of separation: nature as opposed to culture, male as opposed to female, and human versus non-human. My work has always been in search of more ethical modes of philosophical speculation, political reflection, and imagination that move us beyond the great divide between the human and the animal, plant, or non-human life.
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Publications
New Materialisms​
Feminist New Materialism: Situated Cartographies. Edited by Olga Cielemecka and Monika Rogowska-Stangret. [In Polish and English]. Lublin: e-naukowiec, 2018.
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A Quest for Feminist Time and Space. By Magdalena Sroda, Monika Rogowska-Stangret, and Olga Cielemecka. Women: A Cultural Review. Special Issue: Feminist Matters: The Politics of New Materialism. Volume 25, Issue 1, 2014, pp. 114-122., 2014
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Trans materialities​
Trans materialities. Edited by Max van Midde, Ludovico Virtù, and Olga Cielemecka. Graduate Journal of Social Science 14 no. 2 (2018).
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Beyond the human and the non-human
​Between the Human and the Non-human. Giorgio Agamben’s Ethics and Its Anthropological Foundations. PhD dissertation. Degree conferred: March 10, 2015. University of Warsaw Poland, Institute of Philosophy. PhD project supervised by Professor Magdalena Åšroda (UW).
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All Things Spectral. Somatechnics 5, no. 2 (2015): 234–254.
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Angelus Novus Looks to the Future. On Anti-humanism that Overcomes Nothingness. Teksty drugie 1 (2015): 64–82.
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MyÅ›lenie planetarne i nowa humanistyka [Planetary thinking and the new humanities. An Interview with Cecilia Åsberg]. Czas kultury, vol. 2, no. 20, 2020, pp. 3-35.
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'Poza ludzkim a nieludzkim. O nowym ksztaÅ‚cie wspólnoty.' [In Polish]. In Kierunki badawcze we wspóÅ‚czesnej filozofii. Rozumienie stanowi klucz do Å›wiata, eds. I. Malec, D. Czakon, Lodz: Wydawnictwo Biblioteka, 2014: 9–27.​
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Collaborations
Posthumanities Hub - a more-than-human humanities research group, headed by Director Professor Cecilia Åsberg, Linköping University, Sweden.
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Posthumanism Research Network - transdisciplinary research network on posthumanism and the humanities after the humanities. Headed by Professor Christine Daigle at Brock University, Ontario, Canada.
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Past projects
New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on ‘How Matter Comes to Matter’. European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action IS1307. (2015-2018). Member of the Management Committee and a co-chair of a working group on new materialisms and politics (together with Whitney Stark).
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Kartografie obcości, inności i wykluczenia. Project funded by Narodowy Program Rozwoju Humanistyki (NPRH).​PI Professor Magdalena Sroda.
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'Feminist New Materialism – a political perspective in the context of Polish post-transition gender politics.' MA level course at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, Poland. Thought by Monika Rogowska-Stangret and Olga Cielemecka and funded by Patterns Lectures Series: World University Service (WUS) Austria and ERSTE Foundation. (2014-2015).