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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.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Szymon Wróbel, Krzysztof Skonieczny, Introduction. Making the World Material Again.- Part 1: The End of the World and What Comes After.- Chapter 2: Szymon Wróbel, Incapable of Learning or Trade of Life.- Chapter 3: Miroslaw Loba, The Possibility of the World, the Possibility of Life in Michaël F ssel and Corinne Pelluchon.- Chapter 4: Krzysztof Skonieczny, The End of the World as a Limit of (Political) Imagination.- Chapter 5:Monika Rogowska-Stangret, Extinction Companion Species as a Figuration of Loss and Recovery of Being of the World . On Ethics in Dis/Appearing Worlds.- Chapter 6: Michal Pawel Markowski, Escape from the World. Henry David Thoreau and the Discontent of Civilization.- Chapter 7: Adam Lipszyc, The Left-Handed Self: Losing and Regaining the World in Peter Handke and Laura Freudenthaler.- Part 2: (Re)creating the Common World: Resilience and Resistance.- Chapter 8: Joanna Bednarek, One or Many Worlds? How Can a Common World Emerge from an Ecosystem of Worlds?.- Chapter 9: Mira Marcinów, The Hysterical Reclaiming of the World.- Chapter 10: Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Leviathan and Planetary Cybernetics.- Chapter 11: Pawel Dybel, Can the World Still be Saved? Technology as the fate (das Geschick) of European Culture and a Mortal Threat to It.- Chapter 12: Tetiana Zaiats, Oksana Dyakonenko, Olena Sova, Demographic Consequences and Resilience to Conflict in the Conditions of Military Aggression.- Chapter 13: Gabriela Filipowicz, Between Magic and Resistance: Myanmar s Commons and Revolts.- Chapter 14: Zoja Morochojewa, The Self and Other in the Contemporary World.- Chapter 15: Katarzyna Szafranowska, Tender Hope: Navigating through the Ecopolitical Crisis of the Body.- Part 3: Rethinking Materialism.- Chapter 16: Gregg Lambert, Is philosophy merely the continuation of politics by another means? Or Vladimir Lenin Comes to Dinner.- Chapter 17: Rodrigo Gonsalves and Daniel S. Mayor Fabre, Materialist Dialectics and Normativity.- Chapter 18: Maciej Bednarski, Spiritual Materialism. On Stiegler s General Organology as Atypical Materialism.- Chapter 19: Denis Petrina, Entangled Psyche: Mediamorphing (With) Matter.- Chapter 20: Adrian Sobolewski, Representation Revisited. Benjamin, Debord and Internet Images.- Chapter 21: Piotr Wesolowski, Rococo Materialism. Pierrot and the Ontology of the Death Drive.- Chapter 22: Szymon Wróbel, How to Be a Good Materialist?.
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
