New Materialism and/or Who is the agent? | Philosophies Conceptual Composition 14: New Materialisms Who is the author of a portrait photograph? Traditionally, the credit has been ascribed to the person who holds the camera and pushes the shutter button. However, as anyone who has been on either side of the portrait photograph situation knows, the person being portrayed is often active and contributes to the work that produces the photograph as well – be it through demands on photographic composition, through putting on the right smile or other reasons. Depending on situation, the credit should be more justified were it to be shared between the parties, in varying degrees of course. After all, there could be no portrait photograph without a person to portrait. Who is the agent? New materialism is a collective name for recent currents and developments within the social sciences and humanities. Photograph taken by (and also partly depicting) the author. Readings: Like this: Like Loading...
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academia immanence is understood as the site where signi fi cance and sub-stance, thought and matter, human agency and material objectivity,must be consubstantial (Kirby 77). as Matter, the photonegative of Reason or Mind (van derTuin and Dolphijn 164), but rather as a eld of distributed agency.Humans share this horizon with countless other actors, whoseagency regardless of being endowed with degrees of intentionality forms the fabric of events and causal chains. in short, every emergence is seen as the concretization of material and semiotic discursive dynamics, and therefore bequeathed with the possibility of carrying meanings and with a historical (namely, narrative) dimen-sion. [r]ocks and winds, germs andwords, are all different manifestations of this dynamic materialreality, or, in other words, they all represent the different ways inwhich this single matter-energy expresses itself ecocriticism$ c, and cognitivepractices as well as (Coole and Frost 3). xenobiotic agents, and all kinds of messy matter Vibrant fl
New Materialisms academia Material Ecocriticism and the Creativity of Storied Matter serpil oppermann abstract Situated in the conceptual horizons of the new materialist paradigm, material ecocriticism views matter in terms of its agentic expressions, inherent creativity, performative enactments and innate meanings. It asks us to rethink the questions of agency, creativity, imagination, and narrativity. Taking into account material-discursive practices (Karen Barad) and material-semiotic processes (Donna Haraway), material ecocriticism claims that matter is endowed with meanings and is thick with stories, manifesting as “storied matter.” narrative agency,” a material ecocritical conceptualization of matter s expressive capacity. Despite its increasingly multivalent definitions, proliferating branches, and theoretical standpoints, ecocriticism has always retained a distinct interest in the significance of the material world, recently framing its dynamics within the conceptual horizon of the new materialist paradigm. 1.
Alternative Higher Education Cultural Studies Association 2016 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Conference Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (US) Villanova University, Villanova, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2-5 June, 2016 Important Dates for Second Call for Proposals: February 1, 2016: Submission System Opens (Membership and Registration also open -- You must be a member to submit!) The Cultural Studies Association (CSA) invites proposals from its current and future members for participation in its fourteenth annual meeting. The theme, Policing Crises Now, is prompted by and departs from the rich and diverse innovations and provocations of Policing the Crisis (1978), a groundbreaking work generated by a collective of scholars, including and facilitated by Stuart Hall. Topics that might be addressed include but are not limited to: We welcome proposals from scholars contributing to cultural studies who may be located in any discipline, inter-discipline, or scholarly field. Important Dates for First Call for Proposals:
Lumina is committed to enrolling and graduating more students from college. In fact, we are the nation's largest foundation dedicated exclusively to increasing students' access to and success in postsecondary education. Our mission is defined by Goal 2025 The neoliberal assault on academia - Opinion The New York Times, Slate and Al Jazeera have recently drawn attention to the adjunctification of the professoriate in the US. Only 24 per cent of the academic workforce are now tenured or tenure-track. Much of the coverage has focused on the sub-poverty wages of adjunct faculty, their lack of job security and the growing legions of unemployed and under-employed PhDs. The two developments are not unrelated. Lost amid the fetishisation of information technology and the pathos of the struggle over proper working conditions for adjunct faculty is the deeper crisis of the academic profession occasioned by neoliberalism. The neoliberal sacking of the universities runs much deeper than tuition fee hikes and budget cuts. Thatcherite budget-cutting exercise The professions are in part defined by the fact that they are self-governing and self-regulating. As a dose of shock capitalism, the 2008 financial crisis accelerated processes already well underway. Neoliberal assault on the universities
Articles on Higher Education Henry A. Giroux | Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)Truthout depends on you to continue producing grassroots journalism and disseminating conscientious visions for a brighter future. Contribute now by clicking here! "The University is a critical institution or it is nothing." - Stuart Hall I want to begin with the words of the late African-American poet, Audre Lourde, who was in her time a formidable writer, educator, feminist, gay rights activist and public intellectual who displayed a relentless courage in addressing the injustices she witnessed all around her. She writes: Poetry is not a luxury. To read more articles by Henry A. Across the globe, the forces of casino capitalism are on the march. The mantras of neoliberalism are now well known: Government is the problem; Society is a fiction; Sovereignty is market-driven; Deregulation and commodification are vehicles for freedom; and Higher education should serve corporate interests rather than the public good. Under such circumstances, to cite C.