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Postcollectivity
Situated Knowledge and Practice
Series: - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 284
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., MichaÅ Krawczak, Grant Leuning, Ania Malinowska, Anna Nacher, Andrzej W. Nowak, Julian Reid, Pepe Rojo, Sarena Sabine, Jens Schröter, Jan StasieÅko and Brett Zehner.
Contributors are: Harshavardhan Bhat, Stephen Dersley, Adela Goldbard, Carly E. Gray, Agnieszka Jelewska, Peter H. Kahn, Jr., MichaÅ Krawczak, Grant Leuning, Ania Malinowska, Anna Nacher, Andrzej W. Nowak, Julian Reid, Pepe Rojo, Sarena Sabine, Jens Schröter, Jan StasieÅko and Brett Zehner.
Agnieszka Jelewska is Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland, where she also received her Ph.D. She is a co-founder of Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center AMU. Jelewska has authored several books and a number of articles on media and environmental studies including Nuclear Gaia: Media Archives of Planetary Harm (with MichaÅ Krawczak, forthcoming 2025).
MichaÅ Krawczak is an Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland, where he defended his Ph.D. He is a co-founder of Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center AMU. He is an author of books and articles on media critique, including Aesthetics of Radical Truth (with Agnieszka Jelewska, forthcoming 2025).
Julian Reid is Professor of International Relations at the University of Lapland, Finland. He was educated at King's College London, the University of Amsterdam and wrote his Ph.D. at the University of Lancaster. He is the author of several books, including Becoming Indigenous: Governing Imaginaries in the Anthropocene (coauthored with David Chandler, Rowman & Littlefield: 2019).
MichaÅ Krawczak is an Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland, where he defended his Ph.D. He is a co-founder of Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center AMU. He is an author of books and articles on media critique, including Aesthetics of Radical Truth (with Agnieszka Jelewska, forthcoming 2025).
Julian Reid is Professor of International Relations at the University of Lapland, Finland. He was educated at King's College London, the University of Amsterdam and wrote his Ph.D. at the University of Lancaster. He is the author of several books, including Becoming Indigenous: Governing Imaginaries in the Anthropocene (coauthored with David Chandler, Rowman & Littlefield: 2019).
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Postcollectivity New Ways of Gathering and Practicing in Times of Crises
ââAgnieszka Jelewska, MichaÅ Krawczak and Julian Reid
Part 1
Resistivity
1âResistance
ââJulian Reid
2âCarnivalesque Postcollectivity Reenactment as Decolonial Subversion
ââAdela Goldbard
3âCollecting Crumbs of Lost Knowledge Learning from Postindustrial and Postsocialist Disruptions
ââAndrzej W. Nowak
4âBorderforms
ââGrant Leuning and Pepe Rojo
5âThe Networked Public Sphere and the Sectarian Public
ââStephen Dersley
Part 2
Co-existence
6âCollective Co-existence, Climate Apocalypse, and a Nature-Relational Way Forward
ââPeter H. Kahn, Jr., Sarena Sabine and Carly E. Gray
7âAs I Sit Down to Write a Monsoon Story without Cloud Bands
ââHarshavardhan Bhat
8âA Meteorology of Media
ââBrett Zehner
9âNot-Only-Human-Habitat, or Pedagogies of Vulnerable Collectives in the Age of Extractivist Fantasies
ââAnna Nacher
10âMedia Warfare The Coercive Coexistence of Radiation and Memory
ââAgnieszka Jelewska
Part 3
Transversality
11âThe Right to Breathe Is the Right to Speak The Transversality of Environmental Pollution and Postdigital Infrastructures
ââMichaÅ Krawczak
12âTransversal Physiognomies and the Postcollective Self
ââJan StasieÅko
13âThe Silicon Gender Technological Species and the Transgression of Model Sexes
ââAnia Malinowska
14âTowards a Postmonetary Collectivity
ââJens Schröter
Index
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Postcollectivity New Ways of Gathering and Practicing in Times of Crises
ââAgnieszka Jelewska, MichaÅ Krawczak and Julian Reid
Part 1
Resistivity
1âResistance
ââJulian Reid
2âCarnivalesque Postcollectivity Reenactment as Decolonial Subversion
ââAdela Goldbard
3âCollecting Crumbs of Lost Knowledge Learning from Postindustrial and Postsocialist Disruptions
ââAndrzej W. Nowak
4âBorderforms
ââGrant Leuning and Pepe Rojo
5âThe Networked Public Sphere and the Sectarian Public
ââStephen Dersley
Part 2
Co-existence
6âCollective Co-existence, Climate Apocalypse, and a Nature-Relational Way Forward
ââPeter H. Kahn, Jr., Sarena Sabine and Carly E. Gray
7âAs I Sit Down to Write a Monsoon Story without Cloud Bands
ââHarshavardhan Bhat
8âA Meteorology of Media
ââBrett Zehner
9âNot-Only-Human-Habitat, or Pedagogies of Vulnerable Collectives in the Age of Extractivist Fantasies
ââAnna Nacher
10âMedia Warfare The Coercive Coexistence of Radiation and Memory
ââAgnieszka Jelewska
Part 3
Transversality
11âThe Right to Breathe Is the Right to Speak The Transversality of Environmental Pollution and Postdigital Infrastructures
ââMichaÅ Krawczak
12âTransversal Physiognomies and the Postcollective Self
ââJan StasieÅko
13âThe Silicon Gender Technological Species and the Transgression of Model Sexes
ââAnia Malinowska
14âTowards a Postmonetary Collectivity
ââJens Schröter
Index
The book's main audience will be academics, students, researchers, artists, activists, and those interested in changes involving new forms of gathering, practising, making and knowledge production in response to modern crises.