August 2024

This August I was very pleased to be involved in the 12th New Materialisms Conference, which took place at the Maynooth University in Ireland between August 26-28, centered on the theme of 'Intersectional Materialisms'. I was in the organising committee of the conference, since I have a long-standing interest in the different philosophical strands of new materilisms. I  have actively engaged with the New Materialism COST Action IS1307 and have extensively drawn on new materialism ideas in my research and publications.

Concepts and ideas from the philosophical field of new materialisms have significantly shaped the epistemological foundation, methodological strategies, and theoretical approaches of this research, including epistolary entanglements, diffractions and diffractive readings, the importance of space/time/matter in the work of memory machines, as well as in processes of self-representation.