An Introduction to New Materialisms: Bodies, Objects, and Movement

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• ١تمرينINTRODUCING KOYAANISQATSIالأسبوع ١مادة واحدة

  Ko•yaa•nis•qatsi (from the Hopi Language), n. 1. crazy life. 2. Life in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.

  • KoyaanisqatsiDocumentary, 1982. Artwork.

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  • تمرينStretching
• ٢تمرينTOYSالأسبوع ٢٧ مواد

  Assignment Readings: Academic Snippets of literature on the Concept of Mimesis in New Materialisms

  Example of snippet: “He is alone in realizing that he is subject to illness, alone in knowing that he must die…Of all the creatures that live in society, man alone can swerve from the social line by giving way to selfish preoccupations…This twofold shortcomings in man is the price paid for intelligence. Man cannot exert his faculty of thought without imagining an uncertain future, which rouses his fears and his hopes. He cannot think about what nature demands of him, in so far as she has made a social being of him, without saying to himself that he might often find it more profitable to ignore others and to think of himself alone. In both cases there would be a break of the normal, natural order of things” (Bergson, 1935, pp. 204-205) “Assuming that society is to go on—there must be a counterpoise, at these points, to intelligence. If this counterpoise cannot be instinct itself, for the very reason that its place has been taken by intelligence, the same effect must be produced by a virtuality of instinct, or, if you prefer it, by the residue of instinct which survives on the fringe of intelligence: it cannot exercise direct action, but, since intelligence works on representations, it will call up ‘imaginary ones’, which will hold their own against the representation of reality and will succeed, through the agency of intelligence itself, in counteracting the work of intelligence. This would be the explanation of the myth-making faculty” (Bergson, 1935, p. 119). “Homo Sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence to things unreasonable” (Bergson, 1935, p. 102).

  • Introducing the new materialismsCoole, D. & S. Forst (2010). In D. Coole & S. Frost (Eds.), New materialism: Ontology, agency, and politics (pp. 1-43). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Tactility and distractionTaussig, M. (1991). Cultural Anthropology 6(2), 147-153.
  • Mimesis and alterity: A particular history of sensesTaussig, M. (1993). New York, NY: Routledge.
  • The two sources of morality and religionBergson, H. (2002). Trans. R. A. Audra, C. Brereton & W. H. Carter. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. (Original work published 1935).
  • The Elusive Material, What the Dog Doesn’t UnderstandChow, R. (2010). In D. Coole & S. Frost (Eds.), New materialisms: Ontology, agency, and politics (pp. 221-233). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • The gospel of Mary MagdaleneLeloup, J. & J. Needleman (2002). Trans. J. Rowe. Rochester, NY: Inner Traditions.
  • Prologue: Painting FiguresExtract. Van Coillie, M. (2020). Toy-Stories of the (Im)Material Life of Things: Public Art of Becoming in the Moulid. Bodies, Objects, and Mimesis. Cairo: The American University in Cairo [Thesis].

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  • تمرينStretching
• ٣تمرينPENCILSالأسبوع ٣١١ مادة

  Assignment Readings: Academic Snippets of literature on the Concept of Art in New Materialisms

  Example of snippet: “Although her external functions were almost dead, she retained a puzzling life within her body. Her “dictionary” was a sea of words, references to all kinds of illness, places and roles she no longer inhabited, and people she once knew and lived for: “Documents, reality, tiresomeness, truth, saliva, voracious, consumer, saving, economics, Catarina, spirit, pills, marriage, cancer, Catholic church, separation of bodies, division of the state, the couple’s children.” Her seemingly disaggregated words were in many ways an extension of the abject figure she had become in family life, medicine, and Brazil. “Medical records, ready to go to heaven,” she wrote. “Dollars, Real, Brazil is bankrupted, I am not to be blamed, without a future. Things out of justice. Human body?”” (Biehl & Locke, 2017, p. 52).

  • The inertia of matter and the generativity of fleshCoole, D. (2010). In D. Coole & S. Frost (Eds.), New materialism: Ontology, agency, and politics (pp. 92-115). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Orientations matterAhmed, S. (2010). In D. Coole & S. Frost (Eds.), New materialisms: Ontology, agency, and politics (pp. 116-136). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • ProloguePandian, A. & S. McLean (2017). In A. Pandian & S. McLean (Eds.), Crumpled paper boat (pp. 1-10). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Intoduction to the question: is confusion a form?Guyer, J. I. (2015). Social Dynamics 41(1), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/02533952.2015.1029742
  • Towards the City of ThresholdsStravrides, S. (2010). Professional Dreamers [Online].
  • Risking oneself and one’s identity: Agonism revisitedGambetti, Z. (2016). In J. Butler, Z. Gambetti & L. Sabsay (Eds.), Vulnerability in resistance (pp. 28-51). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Ethnographic sensorium. & Anthropology of BecomingBiehl, J. & P. Locke (2017). In J. Biehl & P. Locke (Eds.), Unfinished: The anthropology of becoming (pp. 1-88). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Impersonal matterOrlie, M. (2010). In D. Coole & S. Frost (Eds.), New materialisms: Ontology, agency, and politics (pp. 116-136). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • The agent is the void! From the subjected subject to the subject of actionGambetti, Z. (2005). Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society 17(3), 425- 437.
  • Time and the other: How anthropology makes its objectFabian, J. (2014). New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
  • Pasting: The Battle Mural (Part 2/3)Ammar Abo Bakr. Artwork. In: Hamdy, B. & D. Karl (Eds.) (2014). Walls of freedom: Street art of the Egyptian revolution. Berlin, Germany: From Here To Fame Publishing.

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  • تمرينStretching
• ٤تمرينPAINTINGالأسبوع ٤٧ مواد

  Assignment Readings: Academic Snippets of literature on the Concept of Landscape

  Example of snippet: “Imagine a film of the landscape, shot over years, centuries, even millennia. Slightly speeded up, plants appear to engage in very animal-like movements, trees flex their limbs without any prompting from the winds. Speeded up rather more, glaciers flows like rivers and even the earth begins to move. At yet greater speeds solid rocks bends, buckles and flows like molten metal. The world itself begins to breathe.” (Ingold, 1993, p.164)

  • The temporality of the landscapeIngold, T. (1993). World Archaeology 25(2), 152-174.
  • Gender in counterpointBrown, W. (2003). Feminist theory 4(3), 365-368. doi: 10.117/14647001030043011
  • City life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at the crossroadsSimone, A. (2010). New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Waiting, patience and loveCordner, C. (2009). In G. Hage (Ed.), Waiting (pp. 169-181). Melbourne, VI: Melbourne University Press.
  • Bodies in alliance and the politics of the streetButler, J. (2011, September 7). European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies.
  • Virtual infrastructures of habit: The changing intensities of habit through gracefulness, restlessness and clumsinessBisell, D. (2015). Cultural Geographies 22(1), 127-146.
  • Painting: The HarvestersPieter Bruegel the Elder. Artwork. In: Ingold, T. (1993). The temporality of the landscape. World Archaeology 25(2), 152-174.

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  • تمرينStretching
• ٥تمرينMONSTER & BURAQالأسبوع ٥٨ مواد

  Assignment Readings: Academic Snippets of literature on the Concept of Life

  Example of snippet: “To be as if already gone is to accept death and not allow it to become the limit of thinking. This is a living with, or being with death, which sees it not as an intruder but as that without which we cannot live.” (Hanafin, 2009, p. 47)

  • “Social Being, Time and the Sense of Existence”Bourdieu, P. (1997). In: Pascalian Meditations. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
  • Rights of passage: Law and the biopolitics of dyingHanafin, P. (2009). In R. Braidotti, C. Colebrook & P. Hanafin (Eds.), Deleuze and law, futures (pp. 47-58). New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • The Politics of “Life Itself” and New Ways of DyingBraidotti, R. (2010). In D. Coole & S. Frost (Eds.), New materialisms: Ontology, agency, and politics (pp. 201-220). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Form-of-lifeAgamben, G. (1996). In P. Virno & M. Hardt (Eds.), Radical thought in Italy: A potential politics (pp. 150-156). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Foucault’s fossils: Life itself and the return to nature in feminist philosophyHuffer, L. (2017). In R. Grusin (Ed.), Anthropocene feminism (pp. 65-88). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
  • How to begin from the beginningŽižek, S. (2009). New Left Review 57, 43-55.
  • The Meccan revelations (Vol. 1)Ibn Al ‘Arabi (2005). M. Chodkiewicz Ed., W. C. Chittick & J. W. Morris Trans. New York, NY: Pir Press.
  • Hajj Paintings: BuraqArtwork.

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  • تمرينStretching
• ٦تمرينTOMBالأسبوع ٦٨ مواد

  Assignment Readings: Academic Snippets of literature on the Concept of Death

  Example of snippet: “In spite of the terror and the symbolic sealing off of the slave, he or she maintains alternative perspectives toward time, work, and self. This is the second paradoxical element of the plantation world as a manifestation of the state of exception. Treated as if he or she no longer existed except as a mere tool and instrument of production, the slave nevertheless is able to draw almost any object, instrument, language, or gesture into a performance and then stylize it. Breaking with uprootedness and the pure world of things of which he or she is but a fragment, the slave is able to demonstrate the protean capabilities of the human bond through music and the very body that was supposedly possessed by another.” (Mbembe, 2003, p. 22)

  • Necropolitics: Living death in MexicoEmerson, R. G. (2019). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Locating Deleuze’s eco-philosophy between bio/zoe-power and necropoliticsBraidotti, R. (2009). In R. Braidotti, C. Colebrook & P. Hanafin (Eds.), Deleuze and law, futures (pp. 96-116). New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • NecropoliticsMbembe, A. (2003). (L. Meintjes Trans.). Public Culture 15(1), 11-40.
  • Histories of violence: Affect, power, violence – The political is not personalMassumi, B. (2017, November 13). (B. Evans Interviewer). Los Angeles Review of Books.
  • The Meccan revelations (Vol. 1)Ibn Al ‘Arabi (2005). M. Chodkiewicz Ed., W. C. Chittick & J. W. Morris Trans. New York, NY: Pir Press.
  • Underground RailroadMusic. Artwork.
  • Sidi Ahmad al-Rifa‘iPoem extract. Artwork.
  • Rabia Al-AdawiyyaPoem extract. Artwork.

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  • تمرينStretching
• ٧تمرينGLITCH & CLOCKالأسبوع ٧٨ مواد

  Assignment Readings: Academic Snippets of literature on the Concept of Event

  Example of a snippet: “This relation to alterity is more material than matter as substance or presence because it is more fundamental or “infrastructural”, so to speak, since it constitutes matter as such. Simply put Derrida’s argument is that the very presence of matter—its persistence, endurance, or being in time—is premised on there being such a thing as a true gift of time, or which is the same thing, a pure event…They must therefore be understood through the figure of the impossible, that which we cannot imagine or figure within the realm of the possible. They require the thought of an inappropriable other that must necessarily remain unappropriated. For once the other that gives time and the event is appropriated, then it is no longer other, and there is no longer a gift or a pure event…Indeed, the impossible is curiously more material and real than concrete actuality.” (Cheah, 2010, pp. 75-76)

  • Non-dialectical materialismCheah, P. (2010). In D. Coole & S. Frost (Eds.), New materialisms: Ontology, agency, and politics (pp. 70-91). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Introduction: In the event—towards an anthropology of generic momentsKapferer, B. (2010). Social Analysis 54(3), 1-27. doi: 10.3167/sa.2010.540301
  • Time and AffectLapoujade, D. (2018). Powers of time. Versions of Bergson (pp. 1-16). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Section 2: The event according to DeleuzeBadiou, A. (2009). Logics of Worlds: Being and Event II (pp. 381-388). London, England: Continuum.
  • Life, movement and the fabulation of the eventMullarkey, J. (2007). Theory, Culture & Society 24(6), 53-70.
  • Machines to crystallize time: BergsonLazzarato, M. (2007). Theory, Culture & Society 24(6), 93-122.
  • Time matters: Marx, Negri, Agamben, and the corporealCasarino, C. (2008). In: Praise of the Common (ed. Casarino, A Negri). Minneapolis: Univ. Minn. Press, 219–245.
  • Mural The ProphetAmmar Abo Bakr. Artwork.

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  • تمرينStretching
• ٨تمرينHUMANIMALالأسبوع ٨٨ مواد

  Assignment Readings: Academic Snippets of literature on the Concept of the Human

  Example of a snippet: “Law assumed the power to humanize…The innovation of juridical humanity arose from the figure of a self-present, bounded human; the absence of the autonomous human, together with the inhuman, constituted the other of the human” (Esmeir, 2012, p. 12).

  • Juridical humanity: A colonial historyEsmeir, S. (2012). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Critical posthuman knowledgesBraidotti, R. (2017). The South Atlantic Quarterly 116(1), 83-95.
  • New materialism: Interviews & cartographiesDolphijn, R. & I. Van Der Tuin (2012). Ann Arbor, MI: Open Humanities Press.
  • PowerFoucault, M. (1994). (P. Rabinow ed.). New York, NY: The New Press.
  • Feminism unbound: Revolution, mourning, politicsBrown, W. (2005). Edgework: Critical essays on knowledge and politics (pp. 98-115). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • “Wounded Attachments”Brown, W. (1993). Political Theory 21(3), 390-410.
  • Anthropocene FeminismGrusin, R. (Eds). (2017). Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, vii-xix.
  • Documentary Concerning Violence2014. Based on Frantz Fanon’s essay Concerning Violence in: The Wretched of the Earth (1961). Artwork.

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  • تمرينStretching
• ٩تمرينCYBORG & VIRUSالأسبوع ٩٥ مواد

  Assignment Readings: Academic Snippets of literature on the Concept of kin

  Example of a snippet: “There is no fundamental, ontological separation in our formal knowledge of machine and organisms, of technical and organic…One consequence is that our sense of connection to our tools is heightened” (Haraway, 2016, p. 60)

  • Pro-creation—Haraway’s ‘regeneration’ and the postcolonial cyborg bodyHandlarski, D. (2010). Women’s Studies 39(2), 73-99.
  • A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth centuryHaraway, D. (2016). University of Minnesota Press. doi: 10.1007/978-1-137-05194- 3_10
  • Staying with the trouble. Making kin in the ChthuluceneHaraway, D. J. (2016). Durham: Duke University Press.
  • “Something to do” & “Contempt as a Virus”Smith, Z. (2020). Intimations. Penguin Books Ltd.
  • THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRAFriedrich Nietzsche. Artwork.

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  • تمرينStretching
• ١٠تمرينROCK, PAPER, SCISSORSالأسبوع ١٠٧ مواد

  Assignment Readings: Academic Snippets of literature on the Concept of Material

  Example of snippet: “It is not as though this world were one of brute physicality, mere matter, until people appeared on the scene to give it form and meaning. Stones to, have histories, forged in ongoing relations with surroundings that may or may not include humans and much else beside. It is all very well to place stones within the context of human social life and history, but within what context do we place this social life and history if not in the ever unfolding worlds of materials in which the very beings of humans, along with that of the non-humans they encounter, is bound up?” (Ingold, 2011, p. 31)

  Artwork is marked “?” in the flow.

  • Being alive: Essays on movement, knowledge and descriptionIngold, T. (2011). New York, NY: Routledge.
  • An ecology of materialsIngold, T. (2018). In S. Witzgall & K. Stakemeier (Eds.), Power of material/Politics of materiality (pp. 59-65). Zurich, Switzerland: Diaphanes.
  • The mushroom at the end of the world: On the possibility of life in capitalist ruinsTsing, A. L. (2015). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • The Extractive Zone. Social Ecologies and Decolonial PerspectivesGómez-Barris, M. (2017). Durham and London: Duke University Press.
  • Feminism, Materialism, FreedomGrosz, E. (2010). In D. Coole & S. Frost (Eds.), New materialisms: Ontology, agency, and politics (pp. 139-157). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Materialities of ExperienceConnoly, W. E. (2010). In D. Coole & S. Frost (Eds.), New materialisms: Ontology, agency, and politics (pp. 178-200). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Fear and the illusion of autonomyFrost, S. (2010). In D. Coole & S. Frost (Eds.), New materialisms: Ontology, agency, and politics (pp. 158-177). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

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  • تمرينExperiment with the stone
  • تمرينExperiment with paper and scissors
• ١١تمرينSHOESالأسبوع ١١١٠ مواد

  Assignment Readings: Academic Snippets of literature on the Concept of Movement

  Example of a snippet: “Boots and shoes, products of the ever more versatile human hand, imprison the foot, constricting its freedom of movement and blunting its sense of touch.” (Ingold, 2011, p. 36)

  • Being alive: Essays on movement, knowledge and descriptionIngold, T. (2011). New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Rhythmanalysis: Space, time and everyday lifeLefebvre, H. (2007). (S. Elden & G. Moore Trans.). London, England: Continuum. (Original work published 1992).
  • Social space. The production of spaceLefebvre, H. (1991). (D. N. Smith Trans.) (pp. 68-168). Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishing.
  • On touching – The inhuman that therefore I amBarad, K. (2012). differences 23(3), 206-223.
  • The end of the cognitive empire: The coming of age of epistemologies of the SouthDe Sousa Santos, B. (2018). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Dispersing power: Social movements as anti-state forcesZibechi, R. (2010). (R. Ryan Trans.). Oakland, CA: AK Press.
  • On believingZournazi, M. & C. Tsiolkas (2002). In M. Zournazi (ed.), Hope: New philosophies for change (pp. 98-121). Annandale, NSW: Pluto Press Australia.
  • ‘On the side of life’: Joy and the capacity of beingZournazi, M. & G. Hage (2002). In M. Zournazi (ed.), Hope: New philosophies for change (pp. 150-173). Annandale, NSW: Pluto Press Australia.
  • Social change between potentiality and actuality: Imagination in Cairo’s alternative cultural spacesKelada, M. (2015). International Journal of Sociology 45(3), 223-233. doi: 10.1080/00207659.2015.1066181
  • DhikrMusic. Artwork.

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  • تمرينDance and Movement Workshop
  • تمرينExperiment Barefoot
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• ١٢عرض تقديميART- AND BODYWORKالأسبوع ١٢

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  • عرض تقديميArtwork & Bodywork: Presentation Creative Projects