The School of Materialist Research is pleased to announce the call for the Integrated Credit Program, Fall Semester 2026. Full information about the program — including the complete course descriptions and the biography of each instructor — can be found at the following link: https://schoolofmaterialistresearch.org/Integrated-Credit-Program-Fall-Semester-2026.
Anna Greenspan — “The Nature of Artifice” Weeks of October 12 to November 2 — Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday (earlier start than the usual which is 18.00 CET)
Anna Greenspan is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Global Media at NYU Shanghai Director of NYU Shanghai’s Center of AI and Culture. Anna holds a PhD in Continental Philosophy from Warwick University, UK. While at Warwick, Anna was a founding member of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (ccru). Anna was the co-founder of the Shanghai Studies Society as well as the research hub Hacked Matter. She also ran a digital humanities project, Moveable Feasts, that maps Shanghai’s street food. Anna’s book Shanghai Future: Modernity Remade was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Her latest monograph China and the Wireless Undertow: Media as Wave Philosophy was published in the Technicites series with Edinburgh University Press in 2023. Together with Bogna Konior and Benjamin Bratton, she is the editor of Machine Decision is not Final: China, and the History and Future of AI (Urbanomic, 2024). She maintains a personal website at https://annagreenspan.com/.
Jason Andrey Bonilla — “Foundations for an Insurrection of Extinctive Anarcho-Communism: Void, Blackness & Radical Enlightenment” Mid-October to Mid-November 2026, Saturdays
Jason Bonilla holds an M.Phil. in Philosophy and is currently working toward his PhD. He teaches philosophy at the Universidad de Costa Rica and editor-in-chief of the non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication Hyperspekulation. He is also a member of the Latin American unit Cuerpo de Investigaciones Críticas (CIDC). His areas of research include ontology, epistemology, and radical political theory in modern and contemporary philosophy. You can visit his personal blog: https://apophasis.blog/.
John Ó Maoilearca — “What is Living and What is Dead in Contemporary Thought: Quasi-Realism, Philosophical Hallucinations, and the ‘Self-Existing Image’” November 2026, every Monday
John Ó Maoilearca is Emeritus Professor at Kingston University, London, where he taught for 11 years, having previously taught at Dundee University and the University of Sunderland. His research tackles ideas in the fields of Continental Philosophy (Bergson, Deleuze, Henry, Laruelle, Badiou), metaphysics (especially of time and identity), film philosophy, and metaphilosophy. Ó Maoilearca has published twelve books, including (as author), Bergson and Philosophy (Edinburgh 1999), Post-Continental Philosophy (Continuum 2006), Refractions of Reality: Philosophy and the Moving Image (Palgrave 2010), and All Thoughts Are Equal: Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy (Minnesota 2015). His most recent work, Vestiges of a Philosophy: Matter, the Meta-Spiritual, and the Forgotten Bergson (Oxford UP 2023/27) examines the convergence of ideas between philosopher Henri Bergson and his sister, the occultist Mina Bergson, in order to tackle themes in contemporary materialist philosophy, spiritualism, and memory studies. Ó Maoilearca is currently researching practice-based forms of non-standard philosophy involving restoration and temporal repair.
Alberto Toscano — “Relations of Destruction: War, Capital, and Fascism in French Philosophy after 1968” Every Tuesday, November 2026
Alberto Toscano is the author of several books, including Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis, Terms of Disorder: Keywords of an Interregnum, Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri, and (with J. Kinkle) Cartographies of the Absolute. He is the co-editor (with B. Noys) of Georges Bataille’s Critical Essays (3 vols) and (with S. Bromberg, S. Farris and B. Skeggs) of The SAGE Handbook of Marxism. He edits the series Seagull Essays and The Italian List for Seagull Books and is a columnist for In These Times.
Anna K. Winters — “Epochs of the Epoché: Reading the History of ‘Bracketing’ with Marion & Laruelle” November 2026, Wednesdays
Anna K. Winters is an independent scholar whose primary interests are in continental philosophy and Catholic theology. Her recent work has addressed the relationship between theology and metaphysics (TRIERTIUM 2025 in Czechia); political theology and the crisis of liberalism (a panel with John Milbank and others in Southwell, England, 2025); Simone Weil’s ‘Pythagorean Doctrine’ as it relates to cybernetics (Aetheria in Crete, 2025); and the philosophy of artificial intelligence (Seven Story Hotel, Issue 2, 2024). She can be found on X.com (@tenshi_anna).
Cécile Malaspina — “Element, Individual, Ensemble, Network: A Simondonian Glossary for Our Times” December 14th and 18th 2026 and January 4th and 8th, subject to possible revision
Cécile Malaspina is a founding member of the Noise Research Union (N.R.U.), together with Inigo Wilkins, Mattin, Sonia de Jager, Martina Raponi and Miguel Prado Casanova. She also a member of the informal Indeterminacy Group, comprising Sha Xin Wei, Alicia Juarrero, Muindi Fanuel Muindi and Sonia de Jager. After publishing An Epistemology of Noise in 2018 (Bloomsbury Academic) and the translation of Gilbert Simondon’s On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (Minnesota University Press, 2017), Cécile Malaspina became directrice de programme at the College International de Philosophie, Paris and Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London (2019-2025). Cecile Malaspina’s most recent publication is a volume she edited, From the Mental State of Noise to the New Frontiers of Techno-Human Cognition: Creative Disruptions Across AI, Gaming, Modelling, French Theory, and Politics (Routledge, 2026).
Katarina Kolozova — “Parallel Readings of Kant and Hegel: Through the Prism of Marx and Machinic Materialism” January 2027, hybrid at Berlin Museum des Kapitalismus
Katarina Kolozova is a philosopher working in the areas of non-standard philosophy, materialist theory, and Marxian studies. She is a professor at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Skopje, and a founding member and co-director of the School of Materialist Research (SMR). She serves as a visiting professor at Arizona State University (Center for Philosophical Technologies) and is an affiliated professor at TU Vienna (Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics). Her publications include Defending Materialism: The Uneasy History of the Atom in Science and Philosophy (co-authored, Bloomsbury, 2024), Capitalism’s Holocaust of Animals: A Non-Marxist Critique of Capital, Philosophy and Patriarchy (Bloomsbury, 2019), Toward a Radical Metaphysics of Socialism (Punctum, 2015), and Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy (Columbia University Press, 2014). She was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley (Department of Rhetoric). Her research explores the intersection of philosophy, science, and the digital, specifically the role of the material in the automation of thought and the critique of anthropocentric metaphysics.
Keti Chukhrov — “Gender De(con)struction in Tragic Play” January / February 2027, hybrid at Berlin Museum des Kapitalismus
Keti Chukhrov is a guest professor in Philosophy of Art at the Stuttgart State Academy of Fine Arts. She was guest professor at the University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, in 2022-2023 and 2024-2025. Until November 2022 she worked as a professor at the School of Philosophy & Сultural Studies at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow). Her latest book Practicing the Good. Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) deals with the impact of socialist political economy on the epistemes of historical socialism. Her full-length books include: To Be—To Perform. ‘Theatre’ in Philosophic Critique of Art (European Un-ty, 2011), and Pound &£ (Logos, 1999), and a volume of dramatic writing: Merely Humans (2010). Her research interests and publications deal with comparative epistemologies and political economies of capitalist and non-capitalist societies and theories of performativity in art and institutional critique.
Christine Wertheim — “Rethinking Sexual Difference as CON-structural rather than merely Structural” February 2027
Christine Wertheim is a former painter with a PhD in literature and semiotics from Middlesex University, London. From 2001-2021 she taught critical studies and creative writing at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, and from 1995–2000 in the Fine Art Department of Goldsmiths College, and at the Slade School of Fine Art. She is a poet, critic, curator and performer, and Emeritus Faculty of the California Institute of the Arts. She is the author of The Book of Me (Counterpath Press, Boulder, Colorado, 2016), of mUtter-bAbel (Counterpath Press, 2013), +|’me’S-pace (Les Figues Press, 2006), and Corpus, a chapbook from Triage (2006); co-editor of the anthologies Feminaissance (with Teresa Carmody, Les Figues Press), Séance (with Matias Viegener, Make Now Press), and The The /n/oulipian Analects (with Matias Viegener, Les Figues Press). In 2004 she was awarded a grant from The Annenberg Foundation to organize a series of conferences on contemporary writing: Séance (2004), nOoulipo (2005), Impunities (2006), Feminaissance (2007), Untitled (2008), Untitled NY (2009). Her poetry appears in numerous anthologies, including Against Expression, The & Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing, I’ll Drown My Book, The LA Telephone Book, and Out of Nothing. Her critical writing on art, literature and aesthetics has been widely published including in, Cabinet, X-tra, The Quick and the Dead, Issues in Contemporary Art, Patarcitical Interogation Techniques, vol. 3., and Construction Sites for Possible Worlds.
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