Towards the Negantropocene: The entanglements of bodies and technology in speculative performative arts

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Mateusz Borowski

mateusz.borowski@uj.edu.pl
Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9631-8843

Abstract

Introduction to essay-cluster Towards the Neganthropocene.



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Published
2024-09-16

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Borowski, M. (2024) “Towards the Negantropocene: The entanglements of bodies and technology in speculative performative arts”, Pamiętnik Teatralny, 73(3), pp. 9–18. doi: 10.36744/pt.3159.

Authors

Mateusz Borowski 
mateusz.borowski@uj.edu.pl
Jagiellonian University in Kraków Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9631-8843

Mateusz Borowski - Professor at the Jagiellonian University, PhD, defended his doctoral thesis on recent European drama at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 2005. His main areas of interest are speculative fiction and counterfactual narratives on current ecological and civilizational crises. He has recently published Strategie zapominania. Pamięć i kultura cyfrowa(Academic Bookstore 2015) and, with Margaret Sugiera, Sztuczne natury. Performanse technonauki i sztuki (Academic Bookstore 2017) and, as co-author, the work Performanse pamięci w literaturach i sztukach (Academic Bookstore 2020) produced as part of the Beethoven research project (NCN and DFG). In collaboration with Małgorzata Sugiera, he has translated numerous scholarly works and plays from English, German and French.). Since 2022, he has directed the OPUS 22 NCN grant After Climate Crisis: Non-Scalable Survival Strategies in Speculative Fabulations of the Last Two Decades, as well as the work of the Polish team in the CELSA grant Re-Familiarizing the Body and its Umwelt: the Uncanny Imaginary as a Tool to Cope with Contemporary Societal Challenges in post-2004 Europe (REFAM).



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