Abstracts must be received by Thursday, September 21, 2017 at 9 a.m. EST.
Organizer: Gregg Lambert
Co-Organizer: Iris Van der Tuin
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This seminar is the second meeting of a co-production of two ongoing international research networks: the Society for the Study of Bio-Political
Futures (http://www.biopoliticalfutures.net/) and COST Action IS1307 New Materialism: Networking
European Scholarship on 'How Matter Comes to Matter' (http://www.newmaterialism.eu). The seminar—open
also to aspiring research collaborators or simply to interested scholars—concerns the definition of “new materialist concepts,” as well
as the new approaches, critical issues, and methodologies that exist today at the intersection between philosophy and the sciences. Both the
study of biopolitical futures and the new materialism(s) deploy a diffractive methodology in revising traditional philosophical and scientific
concepts. Consequently, we are especially interested in revisions and/or diffractive readings of earlier materialisms and their sources. Examples
of concepts include, but are not limited to matter, praxis, contradiction, dialectical determination, quantum indeterminacy, experience, cognition
and temporality, monism, contingency and freedom, etc.
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