Frokostoplæg v/ Monika Rogowska-Stangret

Monika Rogowska-Stangret er gæsteforsker ved DPU og kommer fra the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, hvor hun underviser på the Institute of Applied Social Sciences. Monika er på DPU på et grant fra COST netværket “New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How matter comes to matter'” http://newmaterialism.eu/

Abstract

"Of Other Spaces, of Other Times – Redefining Trauma Through the Lens of the New Materialist Politics of Squatting"

I would like to approach the issue of the new materialist politics with its two dimensions in mind, namely space and time, with the concept of politics of squatting that is designed to think through questions like:

How to interact/intra-act with space and time to fulfill some ethical and political challenges of contemporary worlds? How can we address the questions of tensions between past, present, and future, the problem of novelty, change, transformation, and its entanglement with temporal dimensions? How can we situate ourselves in a dense body of varied political strategies, visions, and ideas? How can we relate ourselves to diversified theories, discourses, and points of view? What kind of attitude can we develop in relation with broadly understood others? How to articulate one’s standpoint within a density of other propositions? How to open up the given orders to the new?

I would like to develop spatial aspects of the politics of squatting along the lines of the notion of heterotopia coined by Michel Foucault and its timely aspects through the concept of heterochrony (Foucault) and Darwinian evolution as interpreted by Elizabeth Grosz. I then juxtapose the concept of politics of squatting with nomadism (vide Rosi Braidotti) to adress the problem of subjectivity and particularly its relations to the past. Finally, I provide a case study by elaborating on the anti-gender campaign that began in 2012-2013 in Poland from the perspective of politics of squatting in hope of revealing the deeper layers of the campaign.

The concluding remarks are aimed at seeing politics of squatting as framing the questions I am currently investigating: how to redefine trauma affirmatively? how to think loss transcorporealy, outside anthropocentric paradigm?

About Monika Rogowska-Stangret

Monika Rogowska-Stangret is a theorist and researcher in the fields of philosophy, gender studies and animal studies. She collaborates with the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, she currently teaches at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences.

She defended her PhD thesis entitled “The Body – Beyond Otherness and Sameness. Three Figures of the Body in Contemporary Philosophy” at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (October 2013). She is a Member of Management Committee of European network: “New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on ‘How Matter Comes to Matter’”, European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), Action IS 1307.

In 2010/2011 Monika received fellowship from The Kosciuszko Foundation and she was a fellow at Rutgers. The State University of New Jersey. She co-developed a project entitled “Feminist New Materialism – a political perspective in the context of Polish post-transition gender politics” as a part of PATTERNS Lectures in 2014-2015 (for details see: http://www.erstestiftung.org/patterns-lectures).

For more information see: https://independent.academia.edu/MonikaRogowskaStangret