Postcollectivity

Postcollectivity develops a new research perspective to help us better understand and confront the countless overlapping and interdependent crises of our time.

Based on its authors’ varied approaches to research, this edited volume combines academic and theoretical discourse with social engagement, artistic practice and critical thought. The phenomena described in the book are the result of various crises, disasters, threats, and forms of violence such as wars, refugee crises, and political regimes. Some are caused by the devastating practices of the anthropogenic drive and environmental pollution, while others have emerged as a response to new political, social and cultural changes that we are experiencing due to the rapid development of technology or progressive economic stratification.

Contributors include: Harshavardhan Bhat, Stephen Dersley, Adela Goldbard, Carly E. Gray, Agnieszka Jelewska, Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Michał Krawczak, Grant Leuning, Ania Malinowska, Anna Nacher, Andrzej W. Nowak, Julian Reid, Pepe Rojo, Sarena Sabine, Jens Schröter, Jan Stasieńko and Brett Zehner.

Agnieszka Jelewska is Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland. She is a co-founder of Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center AMU and has written several books and articles on media and environmental studies including Nuclear Gaia: Media Archives of Planetary Harm (with Michał Krawczak, forthcoming 2025).

Michał Krawczak is an Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland. He is a co-founder of Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center AMU and has written several books and articles on media critique, including Aesthetics of Radical Truth (with Agnieszka Jelewska, forthcoming 2025).

Julian Reid is Professor of International Relations at the University of Lapland, Finland. He is the author of several books, including Becoming Indigenous: Governing Imaginaries in the Anthropocene (coauthored with David Chandler, Rowman & Littlefield: 2019).