Dear colleagues,
You’re warmly invited to join our lecture series on dis/entanglements in
material research
Every Monday from 4:15 - 5:45 PM CEST/ online / starting on 25.10.2021
Materials such as water, sand, coal or crude oil are essential resources for
industrial production, technological and infrastructural development. Although
they are omnipresent in everyday life, their genealogies, epistemologies and
ontologies are rarely called into question. This lecture series focuses on the
ecological, sociopolitical and symbolic interrelations that unfold around the
industrial utilization and commodification of materials. A critical historical
perspective shows, among other things, that materials are often the result of
and object to precarious geopolitics and biopolitics as well as unsustainable
modes of production and consumption. As such, the lecture series connects to
discourses on material/political and power/knowledge relations.
It aims to problematize the understanding of materials as passive matter and
to question a dualistic, modernist interpretation of nature and culture. In
contrast, and in line with new materialist thought, materials have
increasingly been understood and researched as active entities and elementary
components of hybrid nature-culture constellations, relational ontologies and
diversified knowledge systems.
The contributions to this lecture series come from cultural history and
theory, social and cultural anthropology, design, arts and media studies. They
use different case studies and examples to illuminate the multiple
entanglements and disentanglement associated with material politics and
structures. The contributions also show different methodological approaches
emerging at the interface of humanities, arts, design and curatorial
practices.
The lecture series is organized by Prof. Dr. Claudia Mareis, with Michaela
Büsse, Anke Gründel and Léa Perraudin in cooperation between the
Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material« and the
Department of Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
For more details and registration to the lecture series...
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Michaela Büsse
Research Associate
Design Anthropology
Department of Cultural History and Theory
Associated Investigator
Material Form Function
Cluster of Excellence
Matters of Activity. Image Space Material
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
e-mail: michaela.buesse@hu-berlin.de
street address: Georgenstraße 47, 10117 Berlin
postal address: Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
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