Postcollectivity: Situated Knowledge and Practice (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 284)

✍ Scribed by Agnieszka Jelewska (editor), Michal Krawczak (editor), Julian Reid (editor)

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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., Michal Krawczak, Grant Leuning, Ania Malinowska, Anna Nacher, Andrzej W. Nowak, Julian Reid, Pepe Rojo, Sarena Sabine, Jens Schröter, Jan Stasieńko and Brett Zehner.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Figures
Notes on Contributors
Postcollectivity: New Ways of Gathering and Practicing in Times of Crises
1 Collectivisation
2 Collectives vs. Communities
3 Postcollective Knowledge and Practice
4 Resistivity, Co- existence and Transversality
5 Between Top- Down and Bottom- Up
References
Part 1 Resistivity
Chapter 1 Resistance
References
Chapter 2 Carnivalesque Postcollectivity: Reenactment as Decolonial Subversion
References
Chapter 3 Collecting Crumbs of Lost Knowledge: Learning from Postindustrial and Postsocialist Disruptions
1 Introduction
2 Erasing a Map – Establishing a Concrete Utopia
3 Hybrid Modern
4 We Step into Modernist Now-topia in “Children’s Shoes”
5 Crumbling of Socialist Modernist Utopia and Its Embedded Knowledge
6 Why Do We Need Modernist Industrial Embodied Knowledge?
References
Chapter 4 Borderforms
1 Borderwriting
2 The Flag Tierra y Libertad
3 Scrambling Legibility
4 Smear Across
5 Sew Between
6 Ethnography
References
Chapter 5 The Networked Public Sphere and the Sectarian Public
1 Introduction
2 The Fifth Wave
2.1 Waves and Structural Transformations
2.2 The Rise of the Networked Public Sphere
3 Conceptions of the Public
3.1 Distrust and the Sectarian Public
3.2 Lippmann’s Phantom Public
3.3 Dewey’s Inchoate Public
3.4 The Rebooted Public
4 Conclusion: the Paradoxical Public and New Postcollectives
References
Part 2 Co-existence
Chapter 6 Collective Co-existence, Climate Apocalypse, and a Nature-Relational Way Forward
1 Introduction
2 From Domination to Relation
3 Seeking Ethical Community for All
4 Nature Interaction, Health, and Human Flourishing
5 Environmental Generational Amnesia
6 A Nature-Relational Way Forward
7 Conclusion
References
Chapter 7 As I Sit Down to Write a Monsoon Story without Cloud Bands
1 Mucus as Some Kind of Methodology
2 Really? You’ve Come to Delhi to See the Monsoon?
3 The Ghats Will Accept Your Depression
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 8 A Meteorology of Media
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References
Chapter 9 Not-Only-Human-Habitat, or Pedagogies of Vulnerable Collectives in the Age of Extractivist Fantasies
1 Pedagogies of Extractivism?
2 Permacultural Design: Forging Vulnerable Interspecies Communities as a Counter-Extractivist Practice (and Staying with Troubles)
3 Counter-Extractivist Digital Pedagogies and Vulnerable Communities of Practice after the End of World
4 Towards Digital Pedagogies as Counter-Extractivist Epistemic Cooperation
References
Chapter 10 Media Warfare: The Coercive Coexistence of Radiation and Memory
1 Cyberwar and the New Act of Nuclear Terrorism
2 Cyber Warfare as a Drive of Modern Societal Transformations
3 The Occupation of the Zaporizhzhia NPP
4 Postnuclear Media Studies Perspective
5 Atomic Media Entanglements
6 The Irreversible Coexistence of Potential Nuclear War and “Atom for Peace”
7 Nuclear Regime Infrastructures of Violence
8 Conclusions: Radiation and Memory in Times of Nuclear Renaissance
References
Part 3 Transversality
Chapter 11 The Right to Breathe Is the Right to Speak: The Transversality of Environmental Pollution and Postdigital Infrastructures
1 Toxic Geographies
2 Place as a Narrative Potential
3 Black Snow in Kiselyovsk
4 Collectivization and Environmental Extraction
5 Forced Industrial Displacement
6 The Regime and Progressive Censorship
7 The Postdigitality of RuNet
8 Entangled Infrastructures of Violence
References
Chapter 12 Transversal Physiognomies and the Postcollective Self
1 Transversal Postcollectivity of the Face – Theoretical Background
2 Biomedical and Prosthetic Face Collectivity
3 Postdigital Collective Physiognomies
4 Postcollective Faces as Critical Art
5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 13 The Silicon Gender: Technological Species and the Transgression of Model Sexes
References
Chapter 14 Towards a Postmonetary Collectivity
1 Introduction
2 Two Ways of Conceptualizing Postmonetary Collectivities
3 Stigmergy/Conflict Resolution, Planning, and Meta-commons as Organizational Strategies of Collectivity
4 Conclusion
References
Index
Back Cover