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Postcritical Psychogeographies
From Weak Resistance to Weak Avant-Garde
Why would I want to move between the weak resistance and weak avant-garde? Because I think that an act of weak resistance, a disagreement with the canon, always takes place before a weak avant-garde event, project or agency appears.
I called this podcast Postcritical Psychogeographies because I like the situationists and lettrists, you could say that I grew up reading them and about them, and doing psychogeography with my friends in Warsaw. I also grew up with the critical tradition, and my use of ‘postcritical’ is a way to expand, not stop, that current’s legacy.
Host: Ewa Majewska
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About:
Ewa Majewska
Associate professor at the SWPS University in Warsaw, Poland. I am a feminist critical theorist of culture, working in the fields of cultural, feminist and critical studies, and researching the vast fields of social, political and artistic agency to discuss resistance and avant-garde, in their non-heroic, ordinary and weak formats. As a feminist scholar, I am sure that another resistance - one that had not been shaped accordingly to the masculine privilege and socialization, is possible, and I have conceptualized it as weak resistance. The notion of weak avant-garde quickly followed, as an offspring of my research into feminist, queer and other minoritarian strategies of negotiating and resisting the canon.
References:
Psychogeography:
Wikipedia definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography
Guy Debord’s Critique of Urban Geography: http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/2
Exercise in Psychogeography: http://library.nothingness.org/articles/4/en/display/327
Postcritique:
Rita Feliski’s article:
https://mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/08/12/rita-felski-postcritique-past-influences-and-present-conjunctures/
Weak Resistance/Weak Avant-Garde:
Ewa Majewska:
“Towards a Weak Avant-Garde, Re-Shaping the Canon.” Arts 12, no. 2 (April 3, 2023): 70.
https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12020070
“Feminist Art of Failure, Ewa Partum and the Avant-garde of the Weak.” Widok. Teorie i Praktyki Kultury Wizualnej, no. 16 (2016).
https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2016.16.761
“Weak Resistance in Semi-Peripheries: The Emergence of Non-Heroic Counterpublics.” In Global Cultures of Contestation, edited by Esther Peeren, Robin Celikates, Jeroen de Kloet, and Thomas Poell, 1–26. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society Series, Springer International Publishing, (2018) 49-68
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63982-6_3
“Ewa Partum or Feminism That Is Yet to Come.” In Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology, edited by Ana Janevski, Roxana Marcoci, and Ksenia Nouril. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2018.
https://store.moma.org/en-pl/products/art-and-theory-of-post-1989-central-and-eastern-europe-a-critical-anthology-paperback
“Weak Resistance.” Krisis. Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 38, no. 2 (2018): 167–68.
https://krisis.eu/article/view/38777
“Słaby opór. obraz, wspólnota i utopia poza paradygmatem heroicznym.” Praktyka Teoretyczna 32, no. 2 (2019): 7–20.
https://doi.org/10.14746/prt.2019.2.0
“Słaba estetyka – w stronę feministycznej teorii awangardy.” In Estetyka / Inestetyka: Współczesne Teorie Działań Artystycznych, edited by Piotr Graczyk, Cezary Woźniak, and Mateusz Falkowski. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2020.
https://wuj.pl/ksiazka/estetyka-inestetyka-1
Cite this work:
Majewska, Ewa. “Introduction to Postcritical Psychogeographies.” Postcritical Psychogeographies. From Weak Resistance to Weak Avant-Garde. March, 20, 2025. Podcast, episode 0, 08:45.https://ewa-majewska.com/podcast/episode_0/
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