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- Cielemecka, Olga, 1984-
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All Things Spectral
- 2015
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Ingår i: Somatechnics. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. - 2044-0138 .- 2044-0146. ; 5:2, s. 234-254
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The question of the human and the nonhuman, how they are produced and inscribed on bodies, has been the subject to a burgeoning amount of research. In this paper I'd like to offer an analysis of what seems to constitute a gap in our theories of the nonhuman, that is the question of dead – radically inert, mute and vulnerable – bodies. By reference to a Greek word sema, which denominated both a ‘tomb’, a ‘sign’ and a ‘trace’, I would like to investigate the three-fold context in which the dead bodies are enmeshed: the material, the discursive and the spectral one. Drawing on the concept of the ‘remnant’ (G. Agamben) and the ‘spectre’ (J. Derrida) I will pose a question regarding the ways in which dead bodies are included in power relations, powers of visibility and normalisation, and how they may challenge them. Finally, I will offer a project of ‘materialistic hauntology’, an ethical stand towards bodies that are in course of dematerialising, but that still matter.
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- Cielemecka, Olga, 1984-
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Angelus Novus Looks to the Future : On the Anti-humanism which Overcomes Nothingness
- 2013
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Ingår i: Teksty drugie. - : Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk - Wydawnictwo. - 0867-0633. ; :1-2, s. 80-96
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article aims at describing these philosophical concepts within anti-humanistic narrative, which perceive a chance for the renewal of thinking in the death of some ideas and concepts. Trying to extract certain ‘dominant motive’, which could combine different thinkers such as Donna Haraway, Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri and Elizabeth Grosz, one encounters the question of the inhuman, which now is considered neither as a threat nor as a barbarity, but rather a space potentially liberating. A brave mix of that which is human and inhuman: machine, beast, animal, opens a new horizon for questions on the very substance of such a combination.
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- Cielemecka, Olga, 1984-
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Defending Unproductivity in Knowmadic Academia
- 2016
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Ingår i: Control - Book of Abstracts. - : Stockholm University.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper addresses the intersection of problems of labour, capitalism and the body, and situates it in the context of contemporary academia. We will attempt to bring together the “old” (Marxist) and new traditions of materialism in order to re-think the material of the cognitive work. We pose the following questions: What happens to bodies in an increasingly neoliberal academia, which produces precarious, nomadic and, oftentimes, sick bodies (depressed, burned-out, anxious)? What are the ways in which control is being exercised over these bodies? Inspired by the idea of “situated knowledges” we claim that to produce academic discourses on how bodies and lives are kept under control, it is vital to recognize one’s own position (in this case it is a positionlocated within the context of the academia) as a space which is not free from the relations of control, power and violence. We argue that in this particular work environment (i.e. the university) the control over “cognitive labourers” is exercised throughdistribution of anxiety which forces subjects to be productive. We argue that dismantling the productive/unproductive dichotomy could lead to new forms of resistance, solidarity and/or collective action.
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- Cielemecka, Olga, 1984-
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Doing Academia Differently
- 2016
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Ingår i: 21st Century Feminist Praxes, Ontologies and Materialities Conference. - : Central European University.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The starting point for this paper is Rosi Braidotti’squestion of “what a body can do and how much a body can take” (2006, p. 129). The paper addresses questions of affectivity, vulnerability, resilience and resistance of the diseased/sick/(dis)abled/depressed body and brings these questions to my/our own backyard: the context of today’s neoliberal, “knowmadic” academia. There seems to be a growing, albeit little-researched and rarely expressed officially, concern about mental health issues being on the rise among academics (see: e.g. Shaw and Ward 2014). I’dlike to pose the following question: what kind of cognitive production, what thought paradigms, knowledges and praxes do sick –depressed, anxious, burned-out –bodies create? Relying on David Harvey’s comment that under capitalism sickness is defined as inability to work (2001, p.106), I wish to search for alternative logics in which, perhaps, “feeling bad might, in fact, be the ground for transformation” (Cvetkovich 2012, p. 3.). That is not to idealize sickness but rather to point to the intertwined nature of the relation between the embodiment and theory, and the body of a researcher and their work (a body of work; institutionalbodies; the sick body...) and look into the productive unproductivity of the “not feeling well”.
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- Cielemecka, Olga, 1984-
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Knowmadic knowledge production in times of crisis
- 2016
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Ingår i: TEACHING WITH FEMINIST POLITICS OF RESPONSIBILITY IN TIMES OF CRISIS. - Utrecht : ATGENDER, The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation.
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Cielemecka, Olga, 1984-
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Stigmergy As a Collective Research Practice
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Ingår i: Imagine there were no humanities. - Warsaw : Wydawnictwo DiG. - 9788371819384 ; , s. 51-58
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