COST Action IS1307 - New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How Matter Comes to Matter'

Financiamento
Programa Quadro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico da União Europeia
European Science Foundation
Conselho da União Europeia

 

Referência
ISCH COST Action IS1307

 

Coordenadora
Iris van der Tuin

 

Países participantes
Alemanha, Áustria, Dinamarca, Espanha, Estónia, Finlândia, Holanda, Islândia, Israel, Malta, Noruega, Polónia, Portugal, Reino Unido, República Checa, Sérvia, Suécia, Suíça

 

Membro do comité de gestão em Portugal
Ana Mouraz

 

Duração
23.04.2014 - 22.04.2018

 

Web
http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS1307

 

Resumo
Scholars presently exploring ‘how matter comes to matter’ call themselves new or neo-materialists. They do radically interdisciplinary research based on the conviction that the current economic, ecological and political crises as well as technological advances and everyday practices do not allow a conception of ‘matter’ as (an) object(s) that could be captured along traditional disciplinary lines. Stock market crashes, earthquakes and the increasing complexification of political and social systems (and their breakdowns) demonstrate active interventions of materials previously regarded mute or socially constructed. Meaning-making (‘to matter’) does not occur only in the linguistic frameworks academic research applies to phenomena and crises in a retrograde move. The current European new materialist scene is vibrant but remains largely dispersed compared to the U.S.A., which dominates discussions at the moment. This Action wants to network European new materialisms: how do they look, and what can they innovate?