School of Materialist Research - Greece: Symposia, Meetings and Events

20/12/2025

Instead of a review of Gilles Grelet's Theory of the Solitary Sailor (Urbanomic, 2022)

19/12/2025

A Non-Parmenidean Equation: Practice = Thought […] In order to clearly distinguish philosophy, we will say that practice and thought are identical in-the-last-instance, or even that practice is the presupposed that determines thought. This is the

06/12/2025

Video of François Laruelle's lecture titled "Introduction to a Non-Standard Philosophy" part of the conference on non-philosophy held in 2015 which gave birth to the circle of younger generation of "non-philosophers", a group that formed the journal Oraxiom (the conference took place in Ohrid, the old capital of Orthodox Christian gnosis, in North Macedonia, by a lake, in a mountainous area bordering with Greece and Albania). Remembering François...

"Introduction to a Non-Standard Philosophy" - François LaruelleVideo from the lecture by François Laruelle titled " Introduction to a Non-Standard Philosophy...

29/11/2025

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Rocco Gangle will be teaching at "Realism, Materialism, Epistemology: What is Living and What is Dead in Contemporary Thought?," a summer school, part of the SMR Summer Institute in Stagira/Olympiada (Greece), scheduled for August 17–23, 2026. It will explore the 21st century provocations and challenges to the dominance of the poststructuralist epistem across the humanities, social sciences, political philosophy, and beyond. This event invites us to delve into the motivations or epistemic necessities inspiring movements like speculative realism (SR), non-philosophy or non-standard philosophy, new materialisms (Utrecht school, Barad, vibrant matter), Lacanian realism, kinetic materialism, xenofeminism and/or accelerationism, and most recently cosmotechnics as an epistemological shift. We do not intend to study any of these strands of thought as subject matter of the school but state them as a non-exhaustive list of what we consider to be symptoms of the crisis of the poststructuralist (maybe even postmodern?) epistemic hegemony. Many have since moved away from either SR, non-philosophy or non-standard philosophy or from feminist materialisms, but their links with sciences have become even stronger. Even without embracing an ontology of materialism, the link with the sciences via the interrogations of material reality seems to ensure some connection with the interrogations of the real or in terms of the real, or even physicality as opposed to the spectral selfufficency of the universe of language, signification, Sign. Present currents engage with hard sciences and technology and some with Marxism or both with STEM and Marxism, challenging the hegemony of poststructuralism’s authority without fully displacing it. What unites these shifts, and how do we name this evolving paradigm which emerges perhaps even before the so-called "speculative turn" and the rest that followed? Confirmed speakers: Rocco Gangle, John Ó Maoilearca, Thomas Nail, Cecile Malaspina, Joel White, Yuk Hui (pending reconfirmation) and Jason Andrey Bonilla (guest lecturer).
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28/11/2025

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Thomas Nail will be teaching at "Realism, Materialism, Epistemology: What is Living and What is Dead in Contemporary Thought?," a summer school, part of the SMR Summer Institute in Stagira/Olympiada (Greece), scheduled for August 17–23, 2026. It will explore the 21st century provocations and challenges to the dominance of the poststructuralist epistem across the humanities, social sciences, political philosophy, and beyond. This event invites us to delve into the motivations or epistemic necessities inspiring movements like speculative realism (SR), non-philosophy or non-standard philosophy, new materialisms (Utrecht school, Barad, vibrant matter), Lacanian realism, kinetic materialism, xenofeminism and/or accelerationism, and most recently cosmotechnics as an epistemological shift. We do not intend to study any of these strands of thought as subject matter of the school but state them as a non-exhaustive list of what we consider to be symptoms of the crisis of the poststructuralist (maybe even postmodern?) epistemic hegemony. Many have since moved away from either SR, non-philosophy or non-standard philosophy or from feminist materialisms, but their links with sciences have become even stronger. Even without embracing an ontology of materialism, the link with the sciences via the interrogations of material reality seems to ensure some connection with the interrogations of the real or in terms of the real, or even physicality as opposed to the spectral selfufficency of the universe of language, signification, Sign. Present currents engage with hard sciences and technology and some with Marxism or both with STEM and Marxism, challenging the hegemony of poststructuralism’s authority without fully displacing it. What unites these shifts, and how do we name this evolving paradigm which emerges perhaps even before the so-called "speculative turn" and the rest that followed? Confirmed speakers: Rocco Gangle, John Ó Maoilearca, Thomas Nail, Cecile Malaspina, Joel White, Yuk Hui (pending reconfirmation) and Jason Andrey Bonilla (guest lecturer).
Apply here https://schoolofmaterialistresearch.org/Realism-Materialism-Epistemology-What-is-Living-and-What-is-Dead-in

27/11/2025

Thomas Nail will be teaching at "Realism, Materialism, Epistemology: What is Living and What is Dead in Contemporary Thought?," a summer school, part of the SMR Summer Institute in Stagira/Olympiada (Greece), scheduled for August 17–23, 2026. It will explore the 21st century provocations and challenges to the dominance of the poststructuralist epistem across the humanities, social sciences, political philosophy, and beyond. This event invites us to delve into the motivations or epistemic necessities inspiring movements like speculative realism (SR), non-philosophy or non-standard philosophy, new materialisms (Utrecht school, Barad, vibrant matter), Lacanian realism, kinetic materialism, xenofeminism and/or accelerationism, and most recently cosmotechnics as an epistemological shift. We do not intend to study any of these strands of thought as subject matter of the school but state them as a non-exhaustive list of what we consider to be symptoms of the crisis of the poststructuralist (maybe even postmodern?) epistemic hegemony. Many have since moved away from either SR, non-philosophy or non-standard philosophy or from feminist materialisms, but their links with sciences have become even stronger. Even without embracing an ontology of materialism, the link with the sciences via the interrogations of material reality seems to ensure some connection with the interrogations of the real or in terms of the real, or even physicality as opposed to the spectral selfufficency of the universe of language, signification, Sign. Present currents engage with hard sciences and technology and some with Marxism or both with STEM and Marxism, challenging the hegemony of poststructuralism’s authority without fully displacing it. What unites these shifts, and how do we name this evolving paradigm which emerges perhaps even before the so-called "speculative turn" and the rest that followed? Confirmed speakers: Rocco Gangle, John Ó Maoilearca, Thomas Nail, Cecile Malaspina, Joel White, Yuk Hui (pending reconfirmation) and Jason Andrey Bonilla (guest lecturer).
Apply here https://schoolofmaterialistresearch.org/Realism-Materialism-Epistemology-What-is-Living-and-What-is-Dead-in

27/11/2025

25/11/2025

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“Realism, Materialism, Epistemology: What is Living and What is Dead in Contemporary Thought?,” is the title of a summer school, part of the SMR Summer Institute in Stagira/Olympiada (Greece), scheduled for August 17–23, 2026. It will explore the 21st century provocations and challenges to the dominance of the poststructuralist episteme across the humanities, social sciences, political philosophy, and beyond. This event invites us to delve into the motivations or epistemic necessities inspiring movements like speculative realism (SR), non-philosophy or non-standard philosophy, new materialisms (Utrecht school, Barad, vibrant matter), Lacanian realism, kinetic materialism, xenofeminism and/or accelerationism, and most recently cosmotechnics as an epistemological shift. We do not intend to study any of these strands of thought as subject matter of the school but state them as a non-exhaustive list of what we consider to be symptoms of the crisis of the poststructuralist (maybe even postmodern?) epistemic hegemony. Many have since moved away from either SR, non-philosophy or non-standard philosophy or from feminist materialisms, but their links with sciences have become even stronger. Even without embracing an ontology of materialism, the link with the sciences via the interrogations of material reality seems to ensure some connection with the interrogations of the real or in terms of the real, or even physicality as opposed to the spectral self-sufficiency of the universe of language, signification, Sign. Present currents engage with hard sciences and technology and some with Marxism or both with STEM and Marxism, challenging the hegemony of poststructuralism’s authority without fully displacing it. What unites these shifts, and how do we name them?
Confirmed speakers: Rocco Gangle, John Ó Maoilearca, Thomas Nail, Cecile Malaspina, Joel White, Yuk Hui (pending reconfirmation). Guest speaker: Jason Andrey Bonilla.
Call for applications and application form: https://schoolofmaterialistresearch.org/Realism-Materialism-Epistemology-What-is-Living-and-What-is-Dead-in

25/11/2025

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“Realism, Materialism, Epistemology: What is Living and What is Dead in Contemporary Thought?,” is the title of a summer school, part of the SMR Summer Institute in Stagira/Olympiada (Greece), scheduled for August 17–23, 2026. It will explore the 21st century provocations and challenges to the dominance of the poststructuralist episteme across the humanities, social sciences, political philosophy, and beyond. This event invites us to delve into the motivations or epistemic necessities inspiring movements like speculative realism (SR), non-philosophy or non-standard philosophy, new materialisms (Utrecht school, Barad, vibrant matter), Lacanian realism, kinetic materialism, xenofeminism and/or accelerationism, and most recently cosmotechnics as an epistemological shift. We do not intend to study any of these strands of thought as subject matter of the school but state them as a non-exhaustive list of what we consider to be symptoms of the crisis of the poststructuralist (maybe even postmodern?) epistemic hegemony. Many have since moved away from either SR, non-philosophy or non-standard philosophy or from feminist materialisms, but their links with sciences have become even stronger. Even without embracing an ontology of materialism, the link with the sciences via the interrogations of material reality seems to ensure some connection with the interrogations of the real or in terms of the real, or even physicality as opposed to the spectral self-sufficiency of the universe of language, signification, Sign. Present currents engage with hard sciences and technology and some with Marxism or both with STEM and Marxism, challenging the hegemony of poststructuralism’s authority without fully displacing it. What unites these shifts, and how do we name them?
Confirmed speakers: Rocco Gangle, John Ó Maoilearca, Thomas Nail, Cecile Malaspina, Joel White, Yuk Hui (pending reconfirmation). Guest speaker: Jason Bonilla.
Call for applications and application form: https://schoolofmaterialistresearch.org/Realism-Materialism-Epistemology-What-is-Living-and-What-is-Dead-in

24/11/2025

“Realism, Materialism, Epistemology: What is Living and What is Dead in Contemporary Thought?,” is the title of a summer school, part of the SMR Summer Institute in Stagira/Olympiada (Greece), scheduled for August 17–23, 2026. It will explore the 21st century provocations and challenges to the dominance of the poststructuralist episteme across the humanities, social sciences, political philosophy, and beyond. This event invites us to delve into the motivations or epistemic necessities inspiring movements like speculative realism (SR), non-philosophy or non-standard philosophy, new materialisms (Utrecht school, Barad, vibrant matter), Lacanian realism, kinetic materialism, xenofeminism and/or accelerationism, and most recently cosmotechnics as an epistemological shift. We do not intend to study any of these strands of thought as subject matter of the school but state them as a non-exhaustive list of what we consider to be symptoms of the crisis of the poststructuralist (maybe even postmodern?) epistemic hegemony. Many have since moved away from either SR, non-philosophy or non-standard philosophy or from feminist materialisms, but their links with sciences have become even stronger. Even without embracing an ontology of materialism, the link with the sciences via the interrogations of material reality seems to ensure some connection with the interrogations of the real or in terms of the real, or even physicality as opposed to the spectral self-sufficiency of the universe of language, signification, Sign. Present currents engage with hard sciences and technology and some with Marxism or both with STEM and Marxism, challenging the hegemony of poststructuralism’s authority without fully displacing it. What unites these shifts, and how do we name them?
Confirmed speakers: Rocco Gangle, John Ó Maoilearca, Thomas Nail, Cecile Malaspina, Joel White, Yuk Hui (pending reconfirmation). Guest speaker: Jason Bonilla.
Call for applications and application form: https://schoolofmaterialistresearch.org/Realism-Materialism-Epistemology-What-is-Living-and-What-is-Dead-in