︎ Research


The School of Materialist Research serves as an umbrella for collaborative research among the founding members of the school: The Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities Skopje, the Center for Philosophical Technologies (Arizona State University), the Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics (TU Vienna), and the Critical Inquiry Lab (Design Academy Eindhoven). Collaborative research is pursued through writing, curation, and artistic/design experimentation, and is also supported by the various journals affiliated with the school, including Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture; Techniques Journal; and Oraxiom: A Journal of Non-Philosophy.

For inquires about research collaboration, please email us at: schoolofmaterialistresearch@gmail.com



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Research Groups


You are invited to take part in the SMR Research and reading groups
Group 1: Formalizing humanities in conversation with the STEM sciences (format: closed and informal symposia of hands-on engagement with the topics)

“Is a middle ground formal language shared by scientists in the humanities, and in particular philosophers, and the STE(a)M scientists possible? What is the “noise” in communication in each of the areas respectively as well as between them that should be eliminated, and what is the noise that should be isolated to study because productive?”

NB: Formalization of language (and detecting its limits) is not the same as analytic philosophy; quite to the contrary, any concept that has emerged from philosophy for the sciences to discuss or consider it (such as “extended mind” or “eliminative”) is hardly a product of analytic philosophy, because either one deal with a borderline metaphor (“extended mind”) or a metaphysical question of “matter” and “materialism.”  

               Topic 1:  Consciousness and subjectivity

We invite computer scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, physicists, psychologists, neuroscientists, biologists (the list is not exhaustive) to engage in a series of one-hour long workshops. They take place bi-weekly, via zoom. Some parts of the sessions will be edited and uploaded publicly, but most of the program is not open to the public. We invite global participation, and the program is taking place online. This will be a series of workshops. We will determine how many based on the interest for participation expressed by first emailing us at schoolofmaterialistresearch@gmail.com and then filling our a short application form.