Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec

Paweł Piszczatowski

Justyna Włodarczyk

Piotr Kociumbas

Neha Khetrapal

Christian Struck

This issue, “Water Ecologies across Cultures and Media”, traces how water as element, symbol, and force shapes cosmologies, rituals, arts, and infrastructures across time and place. From medieval mysticism to Southeast Asian ecohorror, the contributions illuminate water’s cultural afterlives as origin, memory, crisis, and transformation.

Journal for Transdisciplinary and Intermedial Cultural Studies / Zeitschrift für transdisziplinäre und intermediale Kulturforschung

TRANSPOSITIONES 2025 Vol. 4, Issue 1: Water Ecologies across Cultures and Media

The volume explores the manner in which literature and culture across various historical periods have responded to the sounds produced by more-than-human beings. The study examines both symbolic and literal representations of these voices, demonstrating how they shape human imagination and interspecies relations. The book is structured in three parts: the first analyses symbolic soundscapes; the second focuses on encounters and exchanges between species; and the third highlights ethical and technological efforts to protect endangered animals and to commemorate those already lost.

More-than-Human Beings and Sounds in Literature and Culture Through the Ages

Listening to the Swan Song

Monika Stobiecka

In an era of climate emergency and political upheaval, heritage demands radical rethinking. This volume confronts the Enlightenment-rooted dualisms that fragment heritage into opposing categories. By embracing posthumanist concepts like naturecultures and agency, this volume explores entangled human and nonhuman pasts, from the contested Białowieża Forest to ancient sensory environments. Through case studies spanning archaeology, museum studies, and literary analysis, contributors unravel heritage as a dynamic, more-than-human meshwork. This collection is an urgent call to transcend reductive binaries, fostering an ethical, responsive, and sustainable heritage practice attuned to our shared, precarious futures.

Heritage – Between and Beyond Nature, Culture and Agency

In his 1978 book Nelson Goodman coined the term “worldmaking.” The new-materialistic approach to the potential for meaning of extra-human materiality and its multidimensional entanglements and the intraconnectedness shifts the concept of world-making into new perspectives of interpretation. In the categories of Karen Barad’s “agential realism,” it applies to practices of knowledge production and to a diffractive (re)configuration of the world’s matter and its meaning. “World-making” gains a further specific expression in Donna Haraway’s concept of “worlding” which shows the intraactive entanglement of matter, substance, meaning, storytelling and thinking on the fundamental level of the polysemic linguistic tissue itself.

TRANSPOSITIONES 2022 Vol. 1, Issue 2: Intraconnectedness and World-making: Technologies, Bodies, Matters

This issue of Transpositiones showcases a range of interdisciplinary and critical approaches to classic and alternative conceptions of cognition and sources of knowledge. The articles reflect on the many types of sensory and extrasensory knowledge available to non-human beings and wonder whether and in what ways can we, as humans, perceive, conceptualize, and respect these knowledges. The authors highlight how the existence of multiple knowledges questions species boundaries and onto- and epistemological perspectives, in the process of learning not only about other beings but also from and along with them. This selection of texts attempts to contribute to overcoming the anthropocentric perception of subjectivity and to the abandoning of an optics based on the dualisms of nature and culture, spirit and matter, subject and object, animate and inanimate nature, physis and techne, etc., which are so firmly entrenched in the Western intellectual tradition.

Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec

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