Meting Materialities is a workshop series hosted by The Posthumanities Hub at Tema Genus, Linköping University, and the Posthumanities Network: Next Genderation, financed by the Swedish Research Council.

For participation in the workshops, please register with Cecilia Åsberg

Astrida Neimanis | Are YOU the weather? Embodied phenomenological approaches to reading, writing and researching new materialisms

When: December 16th, 2011, 13:15-16:00

Where: Room Hygeia, Tema Building, Linköping University

While many researchers in the new materialisms have underlined the need to bring radically materialist, naturalcultural conceptualizations of embodiment into our scholarship, far less attention has been paid to how the practices of reading, writing and researching can also become “new materialist”: too often, we still “think with our minds” and approach research as a mere cognitive process. – In this workshop we will thus ask: how might we radically activate the participation of our material bodies—particularly in their affective, perceptual, dissipating, molecular and elemental modes—in our scholarly endeavors? 

This workshop introduces participants to an embodied practice of phenomenological research and writing, and gives them hands‐on experience trying it out. The workshop will be divided into two parts: (1) Seminar and discussion of theory and method; and (2) Practice.

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Stacy Alaimo | Sustainable this, sustainable that: New materialisms, posthumanism and the unknown futures

When: November 24th, 2011, 13:15-16:00

Where: Room TEM21, Tema Building, Linköping University

Celia Roberts and Cecilia Åsberg | Subjectivity and substance: Technoscience remixtures

When: October 10th, 2011, 10:15-15:30

Where: Room Faros, Tema Building, Linköping University

The topic of this workshop is embodied subjectivity and how to approach it from the various analytical settings of feminist theory and technoscience studies. We pay special attention to the following: health, biopolitics, technoscience, affect, material-discursive entanglements, biomedicine, pharmaceutical cultures, and drug prescriptions’ ways of also prescribing certain embodied subject formations.

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