Surface as method: a new framework for materials, humans and technology How do we make sense of a world where the boundaries between materials and technology, human and nonhuman, physical and digital are increasingly blurred? This introduction proposes that the surface is...

‘Surface as method: a new framework for thinking materials, humans, and technology’ link.growkudos.com/1eyxfdu3ocg
#Surface #NewMaterialism #MaterialCulture #CulturalTheory
Author accepted manuscript: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Surface is mediatic space where materials, humans, and technology make each other We tend to think of surfaces as the outer layer of things. But surfaces are where materials, tools, bodies, and technologies meet, interact, and transform each other. In a very real sense, we are surf...

What if surfaces are not just the outer layer of things, but where humans, materials, and technology co-produce? This interdisciplinary volume explores exactly that. link.growkudos.com/1ps7yi3m29s
#Surface #MaterialCulture #NewMaterialism #Interdisciplinary Introduction zenodo.org/records/1863....

Holding the book "Enchantment in Romantic Literature" by Gavin Hopps in golden sunlight

New book alert 🔔🔔🔔
Gavin Hopps applies theories such as #AffectTheory #EcoTheology #NewMaterialism & #ReEnchantment in his post-secular re-reading of the literature of the #Romantics

#Romanticism #RomanticLiterature #LiteraryStudies

Catalogue link: opac.sub.uni-goettin...

Why planetary rings are interesting to think about — and with In my previous post on Another Planet, I talked about my upcoming residency at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, where I will be…

I've just published another post on #AnotherPlanet, this time explaining why I find #planetaryrings so interesting to think about and with – and start to sketch how attending closely to them might extend ideas of #newmaterialism and 'nonorganic life'.
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Another 500 words of theoretical / philosophical musings written this evening. I now need to sleep as I’m starting to ponder on the ontological meaning of life & that’s a rabbit hole nobody wants to go down 🐇 🕳️ = 🤪 #Ontology #NewMaterialism #AssemblageTheory #Archaeology #Etruscan #Cerveteri

6/10 Poststructuralist "aftershocks" (new materialism, posthumanism) deconstruct the human - but critique often ends in ontological affirmation: "Everything is entangled," conflicts dissolve.
#newmaterialism #posthumanism #agency

Natur im Fluss Romantische Resonanzen im Materialismus des 21. Jahrhunderts

1/10 How can Romanticism’s nature philosophy resonate with 21st-century New Materialism? This essay explores Goethe, Schelling, & Ritter as “resonance figures” for today’s ecological & ontological crises.
(erwin-ott.web.app/ott-romantis...) #PhilSky #Naturphilosophie #NewMaterialism #LitSky

4/10 New Materialism offers a key insight: matter acts. Servers, code, energy, laws & bodies shape financial outcomes as much as human intention.

#NewMaterialism #SystemsThinking

🌱#Ecofeminism Revisited – in Dialogue with Sherilyn MacGregor
❓Wie kann #Ökofeminismus heutige sozial-ökologische Krisen analysieren, ohne Frauen zu „Opfern“ zu reduzieren oder Natur zu essentialisieren?
❓Welche Rolle spielen #Vulnerabilität, #Care & neue materialistische Ansätze?

#newmaterialism

📖The lecture is based on my research conducted at the College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr
🇩🇪 The talk will be in German

I will tackle the role of space and things in the palaces in the process of intimidation, drawing inspiration from #ANT, #newmaterialism and #ontologicalturn.

6/10 Deleuze/Guattari’s “body without organs” and “rhizome” push further: reality is a dynamic, self-organizing immanence - no center, no subject, just productive flows and assemblages.
#Immanence #Rhizome #NewMaterialism #PhilSky

😠 This morning was brilliant but now I’m in a research induced mood with myself.

On a positive note though, I think I’ve just thought up a way of incorporating the Deleuzian concept of ‘smooth and striated’ space into an analysis.

#NewMaterialism #Archaeology #Deleuze #AssemblageTheory #Change

Photo by 愚木混株 Yumu on Unsplash

Outdoor environmental education: turning back to the environment at a time of climate & nature emergency | Open Access
Mannion et al
1916-1938 | DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2025.2538030

#newmaterialism #relationalontology #natureemergency #climateaction #SDG4

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

6/10
How to understand autonomy in complex systems? Rheoplegma’s "abgriffigkeit" (resistance to control) and Schattenontologie’s unavailability redefine agency as distributed, relational, and emergent—think Latour’s actor-networks or Barad’s agential realism. #NewMaterialism

8/10 It connects Adorno to 21st-century thinkers (Nancy, Barad), showing how his ideas resonate with new materialism, resonance theory, and critiques of "content." Adorno’s negativity becomes a tool to interrogate our hyper-mediated present. #NewMaterialism #Resonance

3/10 The concept of "Negative Materialism" sees - inspired by #Adorno, #Meillassoux, and feminist theories (Haraway, Barad) - materiality as "disruption", as "remainder" that resists total appropriation.
#NewMaterialism #Theory #PhilSky

8/10: The essay also examines contemporary movements like Posthumanism, New Materialism, and Speculative Realism, arguing that they often unconsciously re-enact old metaphysical patterns, even as they claim to be "post-metaphysical." #Posthumanism #NewMaterialism #SpeculativeRealism

Photo by 愚木混株 Yumu on Unsplash

Outdoor environmental education: turning back to the environment at a time of climate & nature emergency | Open Access
Mannion et al
1-23 | DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2025.2538030

#newmaterialism #relationalontology #natureemergency #climateaction #qualityeducation

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OldNorse #ThingTheory #WeaponStudies #NewMaterialism #Mythology

Many thanks to Frederik Schulze and Jan Hansen, the anonymous reviewers, and the editorial team at Technology and Culture for the thoughtful engagement and support! #histtech #envhist #histsci #histSTM #infrastructure #creosote #maintenance #newmaterialism

Has anyone got any good pointers for a total neophyte in Aboriginal/Indigenous philosophies? I’m coming at it from an ontological/ecological/new or speculative materialist POV. Any key scholars, collections, etc. that you think I should check out?

#PhilSky
#Ecocriticism
#NewMaterialism
#Aboriginal

Bridges as liminal spaces What do you doodle when your mind wanders and your body can’t wander with it? I doodle bridges. Always bridges. I think my obsession with bridges possibly began when I was a teenager in the industr…

Thinking about bridges and liminality. #newmaterialism #bitesizephilosophy #Blanchot

rhubarbandrobin.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/b...

Inspired today at the @britsoci.bsky.social #NewMaterialism conference

Amazing artworks by Julian Burton (Delta 7): a diffractive montage portraying detrimental quirks in our health system

What are the affects of 'labelling' people as having mental ill health?

& who gets to label?

#CRMethods

Books: fiction and human existence I was visiting a friend’s house yesterday (a serious book-lover) and we fell into our usual routine: she put the kettle on whilst I fondled the latest books in the pile next to the sofa. Handling a…

Books and existence rhubarbandrobin.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/b...
#newmaterialism #materialculture #latour #STS

Great!!!Waarde Michel👆
🌬🎈🪂 #PhilosophyOfMovement
#NewMaterialism by
#ThomasNail

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Objectivi-tea Freshly made mint tea, Atlas mountains, Morocco. As you do. There are some things that need explaining. The object. The ivit. The tea (Ah, the tea, the tea!). I shall start with the easy one. These…

Blogginess on objects and stuff (academic overspillings rather than seriousity) rhubarbandrobin.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/o...
#STS #newmaterialism #research #subjectobject #educationresearch (maybe) #tea #blogsaboutlife

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In #Posthumanism research we aim to de-centre humans

But are there risks of erasing human voices & how to balance these w/ opportunities of re-conceptualising our relations with the world

See a special issue on this topic edited by Karin Murris: journals.sagepub.com/toc/ciea/23/3

#NewMaterialism

For anyone interested in #NewMaterialism & in the US this looks like a great training opportunity

New Materialism and PostHumanism Starter Pack Join the conversation

I've created a #NewMaterialism & #PostHumanism starter pack go.bsky.app/DpiujN6

Please do share & message me if you want to be added!

#NewMaterialist #Posthumanist #PostQual #AcademicSky #AcademiaSky #Research #philosophy

[Correct link this time haha!]

Our #CRMethods workshop at @britsoci.bsky.social conference w/ @socnewmat.bsky.social @lucyc124.bsky.social & Julian Burton

Participants experimented w/ using textile, drawing, modelling, & collage to 'get in the affective flow' of #NewMaterialism inquiry & w/ affective responses to visual material