Postcollectivity: Situated Knowledge and Practice (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 284)

Most of the phenomena described in this book have arisen as a result of various crises, disasters, threats, and forms of violence (such as wars, refugee crises, and political regimes, but also devastating practices of the anthropogenic drive and environmental pollution). Others are a form of response to new political, social and cultural changes that we are experiencing due to the rapid development of technology or progressive economic stratification. The research perspective proposed in Postcollectivity draws on the authors' approaches, combining academic and theoretical discourse with social engagement and artistic practice with critical thought.

Contributors are: 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, where she also received her Ph.D. She is a co-founder of Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center AMU. Jelewska has authored several books and a number of 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, where he defended his Ph.D. He is a co-founder of Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center AMU. He is an author of 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 was educated at King's College London, the University of Amsterdam and wrote his Ph.D. at the University of Lancaster. He is the author of several books, including Becoming Indigenous: Governing Imaginaries in the Anthropocene (coauthored with David Chandler, Rowman & Littlefield: 2019).