2021-2024, Ania Malinowska (PI), Technologies for Love. Cultures of Feeling and Intimacy under Affective Media, Polish National Science Centre (NCN), grant name and number: OPUS 2020/37/B/HS2/01455.
The project aims to re-evaluate and describe the new cultures of feeling and intimacy that have developed alongside the increasing mediation of human interactions. Responding to the recent lockdown-related debates about the future role of technology for human relations in circumstances when the non-contact status is not an alternative but a default, this project concentrates on technological endeavors around affective programming to provide a comprehensive study of the new forms of loving which came with the new media affordances and the new physical reality that follows the advent of digital technocracy.
2021–2024, Michał Krzykawski (US team leader), CCTS (acting as partner), Networking Ecologically Smart Territories, H2020-MSCA-RISE-2020, under the coordination of professor Noel Fitzpatrick. Academic partners: Technological University Dublin (leader), Institut de recherche et d’innovation Centre Pompidou, Université Paris Lumières, University of Silesia in Katowice (CCTS), Universidad de las Artes de Ecuador and University of California, Berkeley. Non-academic partners: Dublin City Council, Département de la Seine-Saint-Denis (FR), Fabryka Pełna Życia (PL), Phosphène_Disnovation (FR) and Consejo de Gobierno de Galápagos (EC).
The principal aim of Networking Ecologically Smart Territories (NesT) is to test the hypothesis that digital diversification, explored as noodiversification and technodiversification as the conditions of resilience of human societies, holds the key to a reinvention of contemporary, proletarianising, industrial economics. Based on the idea of contributory research and concepts developed by Bernard Stiegler and the Collective Internation, NesT attempts to articulate local territorial situations with international concerns in the context of the Anthropocene.
2020–21. Margret Grebowicz, Residency in Situated Philosophy, Center for Philosophical Technologies, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ.
Around the loose and mobile theme “Making Wilderness,” the fellowship supports research in several regions administered by the National Park Service in order to map the complexities of curated–and variously bordered–wilderness spaces. The larger goal is to foster a more comprehensive understanding of American conservation institutions with fraught histories, like the NPS and the National Wilderness Preservation System. The regions in question are the Chihuahuan Desert and the Colorado Plateau.
2020–21. Michał Krzykawski (along with Anne Alombert, Université Catholique de Lille), Pænser une exosomatisation « néguanthropique ».
Realised as an open online seminar, this project aims to foster and popularise concepts developed in Bifurquer. Il n’y a pas d’alternative, edited by Bernard Stiegler and the Collective Internation (Paris, 2020). A special attention is paid to the relationship between entropy and economic process in the context of the Anthropocene and between the exosomatisation (the evolution of artificial organs) and all forms of knowledge (knowledge of how to live, how to do, how to theorize, how to design etc.) in the context of digital disruption.