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Arthur, Mathew. “Four Alleys.” Visual and New Media Review, Fieldsights, Forthcoming 2020. DOWNLOAD PDF |
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Arthur, Mathew. “Speculative Matters: Making Worlds with Zines.” Syllabus. Humanities 101 Public Program. University of British Columbia, 2019. http://doingsts.com. DOWNLOAD PDF |
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Arthur, Mathew & Reuben Jentink. “Compos(t)ing New/Material/Education.” Paper Presentation. New Materialist Reconfigurations of Higher Education, 10th Annual New Materialisms Conference, 2019. DOWNLOAD PDF |
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Arthur, Mathew. “Trying to Write with Lecture(r)s: Indigenous Futurisms, Multispecies Theologies.” Invited Lecture. Westar Institute, God and the Human Future Seminar. American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, 2019. DOWNLOAD PDF |
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Arthur, Mathew. “Body Parts.” (Un)building as (Un)bodying: In the Alongside of Imperial Knowledge Formations and Anticolonial Body-Makings. Roundtable. American Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2019. DOWNLOAD PDF |
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Arthur, Mathew. “Ecological Panic! (On Anticolonial Affect).” Paper Presentation. Capacious: Affect Inquiry/Making Space, 2018. DOWNLOAD PDF |
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Arthur, Mathew. “Writing Affect and Theology in Indigneous Futures.” In Religion, Emotion, Sensation: Affect Theories and Theologies, edited by Karen Bray, Stephen D. Moore, 187–205. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020.DOWNLOAD PDF
Arthur, Mathew & Reuben Jentink. “Compos(t)ing New/Material/Education.” Paper Presentation (Slides). New Materialist Reconfigurations of Higher Education, 10th Annual New Materialisms Conference, 2019.
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Arthur, Mathew & Reuben Jentink. “Composting Settler Nationalisms.” Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry 1, no.3 (2018): 152–82.
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VIDEO GAME
Doing Multispecies Rituals is a side-scrolling platform game and accompanying text presented at Unravelling Religion 4: Bodies and Objects at Queen’s University. In gameplay, the player navigates a series of platforms, collecting talismans that prompt her to craft a sequence of ritual sayings, knowings, or doings that implicate nonhuman life and nonlife. User rituals are catalogued on the website as a generative resource for practicing multispecies world-making. These repeat performances, I hope, will inspire better stories like Marisol de Cadena’s (2015) mountain stories, Thom van Dooren’s (2014) extinction stories, Elizabeth Povinelli’s (2016) rock stories, Anna Tsing’s (2015) mushroom stories, and millennia-worth of Indigenous stories.multispeciesrituals.com
WHAT'S NEW?
How can we learn to imagine Indigenous futures if our own speculative and “new” materialist stories of ongoing creation weave worlds dense with the relational knottings of Western natural and social scientific citational-conceptual practice? A mini-syllabus on anticolonial new materialist scholarship.WHAT'S NEW?
FABULATION PROJECT
The Fabulation Project is a speculative theory-making game that remixes Joseph Dumit’s (2014) Implosion Project, a set of Haraway-adjacent prompts through which Dumit paces an object in order to get at its material, textual, technical, and political tangles. The game emerged from a yearly STS salon I lead, made up of a mix of multigenerational and neurodiverse attendees, including immigrants and ESL learners, activists, and Indigenous people. While the work of unpacking what worlds are imploded in an object is crucial to staying with the trouble of thorny pasts, doing so in Western analytical/conceptual language seemed to replicate colonial intellectual asymmetries, corroding hybrid or syncretic modes of knowing and shutting out non-Western ideas (see Law and Lin 2016). So, the Fabulation Project asks instead that players fabulate an object from their own situated knowledges in order to conjure alterontologies (Papadopoulos 2018) of science and technology.DOWNLOAD GAME
