Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms - by Felicity Colman & Iris Van Der Tuin (Hardcover)

About the Book

This cumulative work brings together a range of research communities to contextualize and archive over a decade of work in new materialist theorising and knowledge-making practice.

Book Synopsis

This cumulative work brings together a range of research communities to contextualize and archive over a decade of work in new materialist theorising and knowledge-making practice. Combining a reflective genealogical approach along with productive avenues for future research, this volume is an essential collection for the field of new and feminist materialism.
The collection uses the new materialist movements in thought of changing, intersecting, practicing and transforming. As methods, these movements have engendered the metaphysical questions that different new and feminist materialist practices engage. The volume follows these four movements for genealogical, interdisciplinary, arts-based and politics-orienting research in four parts, each of which is preceded by an introductory framing-essay.
Rosi Braidotti's preface provides revelatory mappings to bring the book together and curated panels further offer co-authored texts which practise the collective nature of academic thinking advocated by the feminist new materialisms network.

From the Back Cover

This cumulative work brings together a range of research communities to contextualize and archive over a decade of work in new materialist theorising and knowledge-making practice. Combining a reflective genealogical approach along with productive avenues for future research, this volume is an essential collection for the field of new and feminist materialism. The collection uses the new materialist movements in thought of changing, intersecting, practicing and transforming. As methods, these movements have engendered the metaphysical questions that different new and feminist materialist practices engage. The volume follows these four movements for genealogical, interdisciplinary, arts-based and politics-orienting research in four parts, each of which is preceded by an introductory framing-essay. Rosi Braidotti's preface provides revelatory mappings to bring the book together and curated panels further offer co-authored texts which practise the collective nature of academic thinking advocated by the feminist new materialisms network. Key features: Consolidates new materialisms as a distinguished field of scholarship Brings together contributors from Central-, North-, and South-Eastern and Southern Europe, Australia and North America and is inclusive of Black Asian and indigenous scholarship Provides consonant, dissonant and feminist genealogies of the state of the field Focuses on the methodological nature of the materiality and meaning-making nexus. Felicity Colman is Professor of Media Arts at University of the Arts, London. Iris van der Tuin is Professor of Theory of Cultural Inquiry at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Together they chaired COST Action IS1307 New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How Matter Comes to Matter' (2014-18).

Review Quotes

New Materialism is one of the most coherent and influential movements in contemporary continental thought. In this collection, anchored by a fiery preface from leading New Materialist Rosi Braidotti, Colman and van der Tuin assemble a wide range of articles that push this paradigm further. The reader will find many provocative ideas in this volume.

--Graham Harman, Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, USA

About the Author

Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University. She holds honorary doctorates from Helsinki, 2007 and Linkoping, 2013; is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA), 2009; Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE), 2014; Knighthood in the order of the Netherlands Lion, 2005). Her publications include: Nomadic Subjects (2011), and Nomadic Theory (2011), Columbia University Press; The Posthuman 2013 and Posthuman Knowledge 2019, Polity Press; in 2016 she co-edited with Paul Gilroy: Conflicting Humanities and in 2018 with Maria Hlavajova: The Posthuman Glossary, both with Bloomsbury Academic.

Felicity Colman is Professor of Media Arts at University of the Arts, London. She is the author of Film Theory: Creating a Cinematic Grammar (Wallflower Press, 2014), Deleuze and Cinema: The Film Concepts (2011, Berg), Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers (Acumen, 2009) and Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life (CSP, 2007).

Iris van der Tuin is Professor of Theory of Cultural Inquiry at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She is the co-author of New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies (OHP, 2012). She is author of Generational Feminism: A New Materialist Introduction to a Generative Approach (Lexington Books, 2015). She chaired the COST Action New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How Matter comes to Matter.