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“Letter to a Grain of Wheat”
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Artistic work (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The piece is a contribution to the art project Seeding Stories: A Guide to the Interior of a Salt Water Crocodile (2019) by Migrant Ecologies Project, placed in The Svalbard Seed Cultures Ark, Svalbard, Norway in 2019: https://seeding-stories.org/Marietta-Radomska . The project, including Radomska's piece, has been published in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, issue 54 / summer 2021, pp. 202-203
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- MacCormack, Patricia, et al.
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What do we talk about when we talk about queer death? Theories and definitions
- 2021
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In: Whatever: A Transdisciplinary Journal of Queer Theories and Studies. - : Universita degli Studi di Pisa. - 2611-657X. ; 4, s. 573-598
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This is part 1 of 6 of the dossier What Do We Talk about when We Talk about Queer Death?, edited by M. Petricola. The contributions collected in this article sit at the crossroads between thanatology and queer theory and tackle questions such as: how can we define queer death studies as a research field? How can queer death studies problematize and rethink the life-death binary? Which notions and hermeneutic tools could be borrowed from other disciplines in order to better define queer death studies?The present article includes the following contributions: – MacCormack P., What does queer death studies mean?; – Radomska M., On queering death studies; – Lykke N., Death as vibrancy; – Hillerup Hansen I., What concreteness will do to resolve the uncertain; – Olson P., Queer objectivity as a response to denials of death; – Manganas N., The queer lack of a chthonic instinct.
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- Radomska, Marietta, PhD, 1984-
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From Terminal Ecologies to Non/Living Matters: Towards a Deterritorialisation of Death
- 2021
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- From Terminal Ecologies to Non/Living Matters: Towards a Deterritorialisation of Death In the contemporary context of multiple crises, planetary-scale necropolitics contributes to the creation of unliveable spaces and ‘terminal’ conditions; social and environmental violence; the death of individuals and species extinction. While natural sciences emphasise interdependency and relationality as crucial characteristics of life on Earth, Western cultural imaginaries tend to draw a thick dividing line between humans and other organisms, particularly evident in the context of death, where some deaths are set as ungrievable or not recognised as deaths in the full sense of the word. Against this backdrop, I will look at how select examples of contemporary bio- and eco-art challenge the normative and human-exceptionalist concept of death; how they attend to the intimacies between materialities of a human and nonhuman kind that form part of the processes of death and dying; and what follows, how they reframe ethico-ontology of death as material and processual ecologies of non/living matters.
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- Radomska, Marietta, PhD, 1984-, et al.
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Non/Living Queerings, Undoing Certainties, and Braiding Vulnerabilities : A Collective Reflection
- 2021
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In: Artnodes. - Barcelona : Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. - 1695-5951. ; :27, s. 1-10
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The ongoing global pandemic of Covid-19 has exposed SARS-CoV-2 as a potent non-human actant that resists the joint scientific, public health and socio-political efforts to contain and understand both the virus and the illness. Yet, such a narrative appears to conceal more than it reveals. The seeming agentiality of the novel coronavirus is itself but one manifestation of the continuous destruction of biodiversity, climate change, socio-economic inequalities, neocolonialism, overconsumption and the anthropogenic degradation of nature. Furthermore, focusing on the virus – an entity that holds an ambiguous status between the ‘living’ and ‘non-living’ – brings into question the issue of the agentiality of non/living matter. While the story of viral potency seems to get centre stage, overshadowing the complex and perverse entanglement of processes and phenomena which activated these potentials in the first place, the Covid-19 pandemic also becomes a prism that sheds light on the issues of environmental violence; social and environmental injustices; more-than-human agentiality; and ethico-political responses that the present situation may mobilise.This article serves as a written record of joint conversations between artists and researchers in the working group ‘Non/Living Queerings’ that formed part of the online series of events ‘Braiding Friction’ organised by the research project Biofriction. The article strives to capture the collective effort of braiding and weaving a variety of situated perspectives, theoretical toolboxes, knowledges and experiences against the background of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, the text focuses on the issues of crisis, ‘amplification effect’, viral agency and the changing notions of humanity.
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- Radomska, Marietta, PhD, 1984-
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"Terminal Ecologies, Amplified Vulnerabilities, Non/Living Matters"
- 2021
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- What articulations, cultural and social imaginaries, as well as imaginations are needed in the times of multiple crises? Where do we start when the notions of death and vulnerability seem to saturate any attempt to comprehend the conditions of the present? Taking the intersection between contemporary artistic practices, in particular instances of eco- and bioart, and feminist posthumanities as my entry point, I will look at the questions of death, dying and mourning in a more-than-human sense and as multiplex ecologies of non/living matters. The hope is that such an ontological reframing, grounded in the context of what is deemed ‘the Anthropocene’, may open up an urgently needed pathway towards an ethics beyond the straitjacket of human exceptionalism.
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- Åsberg, Cecilia, 1974-
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Environmental violence and postnatural oceans : : Low trophic theory in the registers of feminist posthumanities
- 2021
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In: <em>Gender, Violence and Affect</em>. - London : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030569297 - 9783030569303
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Environmental violence takes form of both “spectacular” events, like ecological disasters usually recognised by the general public, and “slow violence”, a type of violence that occurs gradually, out of sight and on a long-term scale (Nixon 2011). Planetary seas and oceans, loaded with cultural meanings of that which “hides” and “allows to forget”, are the spaces where such attritional violence unfolds unseen and “out of mind”. Simultaneously, conventional concepts of nature and culture, as dichotomous entities, become obsolete. We all inhabit and embody the world differently, as variously situated people, divided by national, sexual, bodily and economic status, and as very variously situated nonhumans in an increasingly anthropogenic world.This chapter focuses on subtle “slow violence” unfolding through the instances of submerged chemical weapons, so-called dead zones, invasive species and high- and low-trophic mariculture in the Baltic and North Sea regions. It zooms in on the select cases of such “environed bodies”, their stories of excruciating slow violence and yet also on unexpected encounters with care and hospitality. The aim is to unfold a low-trophic theory for the naturecultural research on violence and care within environmental humanities, and to engage a coexistential ethics of environmental adaptability informed by feminist posthumanities.
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- Åsberg, Cecilia, 1974-
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Three Years with the Posthumanities Hub
- 2021
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Reports (peer-reviewed)abstract
- First of all, it has been a fantastic time at KTH with new and old collaborations across disciplines, paving the way for the reinvented, new humanities of societal relevance. The Posthumanities Hub (PH) has since March 2018 until February 2021 had its main institutional home at KTH, where our founding director Cecilia Åsberg worked as Guest Professor in Science and Technology Studies focusing on Gender and Environment. Dr. Janna Holmstedt, artistic director and coordinator, has worked at KTH as research engineer since May 2019, and co-director Dr. Marietta Radomska has been based at Linköping University and Helsinki University.As a research group and network of networks for philosophy, arts, and sciences informed by advanced cultural critique and creativity, we host visiting researchers, public events, seminars and symposia. From such collaborative vantage points, we bring science and nonhumans to the humanities, and transformational humanities to the people. The Posthumanities Hub collaborates with other institutions through our research group, visiting scholars, affiliated researchers, advisory board, and international networks. For instance, during these three years we have worked with Bonniers Konsthall and Färgfabriken in Stockholm, the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society in Munich, Lofoten Art Festival in Norway, the International Science Festival in Göteborg, The Public Art Agency Sweden, the Finnish Bioart Society, and UNESCO World Humanities: Europe, to mention a few.We have been giving talks, PhD responses, and keynotes, at Swedish and international universities, art events, research conferences, and at the Swedish Radio. We have hosted more than 20 seminars at KTH as part of The Posthumanities Hub Seminar Series, which since 2020 have been taking place online, with the number of participants skyrocketing from 30 to 150.Marietta Radomska has set up a sub-group of the Posthumanities Hub, focusing on Eco- and Bioart research. Janna Holmstedt has initiated the Humus Economicus Collaboratory, focusing on human-soil relations. Cecilia Åsberg and Hub-researcher Christina Fredengren are finalizing the project Checking in with Deep Time, and Åsberg will explore AI and the Artistic Imaginary with André Holzapfel and Bob Sturm, KTH.Among the varied activities we have engaged in besides research are:• Open Humanities Lab Symposium: New Humanities and Anthropocene we organized at KTH, with 25 extra-ordinary speakers (2019)• a mixed and postdisciplinary gathering of artists and researchers on the theme of /Mis/communication/s/ in KTH’s Reaktorhallen, curated by Janna Holmstedt on invitation by The Public Art Agency Sweden (2019);• PH has been a proud partner and participant in The Kelp Congress, Lofoten International Festival (LIAF), NO (2019), the Posthumanism Research Institute at Brock University, Canada, and the State of the Art Network, a Nordic-Baltic network of artists, practitioners, researchers, and organizations exploring the role, responsibility, and potential of art and culture in the Anthropocene (2018 –present).• We’ve initiated two Formas Communication Projects (Åsberg) involving students, in collaboration with Bromma gymnasium, Färgfabriken in Stockholm and Art Lab Gnesta.Our teaching focuses on gender, environment and sustainability. We were proud to inherit Gender and Technology (Åsberg), a flagship course of the Division that we ran 2019 – 2020 with students doing MAs in engineering. In 2020 we started up the new PhD course Gender and Sustainability: Introducing Feminist Environmental Humanities with Meike Schalk at KTH School of Architecture, with over 30 participants from many corners of the world. Both courses were very highly rated and appreciated, to the degree of forming new lively phd-networks (Genderation for Future Sustainability Network).Read more about the research group,our companions, seminars, projectsand events here:http://posthumanities.net/http://www.facebook.com/posthumanitieshub/Director and founder:Cecilia Åsberg, KTH/LiU.co-director:Marietta Radomska, LiU.artistic director and coordinator:Janna Holmstedt, KTH.senior strategic advisor:Christina Fredengren, SU. Ragnar Holm postdoc:Lina Rahm, KTH.
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