Rethinking Materialism: Making the World Material Again

Taking as its starting point the diagnosis that events such as the pandemic, the ecological crisis, and the increasingly volatile international situation have made our relationship to the world problematic, the book aims to survey the ways in which this new situation can be productively theorized. Its three parts focus on: discourses of the “loss” of the world; attempts at resistance to this loss and regaining the “common” world; and discussions of matter as the “stuff” of the world.

Szymon Wróbel is a professor of philosophy at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw and at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is the author of numerous books including Deferring the Self and Grammar and Glamour of Cooperation (2013) and co-editor of Atheism Revisited. Rethinking Modernity and Inventing New Modes of Life (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), Living and Thinking in the Post-Digital World (2021) and Regimes of Capital in the Post-Digital Age (2022).

Krzysztof Skonieczny is an assistant professor at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales,” University of Warsaw. He is the author of Immanence and the Animal. A Conceptual Inquiry (2020) and co-editor of several books. His next book, Deleuze and Slowness. Against Accelerationist Thinking is forthcoming in 2025.