Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms

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.

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. Rosi Braidotti is a Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Honorary Professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She is a feminist Continental philosopher and she holds degrees in philosophy from the ANU and the Sorbonne and Honorary Degrees from Helsinki, (2007) and Linkoping (2013). She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) and also a Member of the Academia Europaea. In 2022 she received the Humboldt Research Award for life-long contribution to scholarship. Her publications include: Nomadic Subjects (2011), and Nomadic Theory (2011); The Posthuman (2013), Posthuman Knowledge (2019); Posthuman Feminism (2022); The Posthuman Glossary (2018) and More Posthuman Glossary (2022).