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

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.

Neha Khetrapal

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