School of Materialist Research

The School of Materialist Research (SMR) is an education and research inter-university grassroots platform that offers Integrated Credit Programs , Seminars, Special Programs, and Research Initiatives that address the materialisms running through contemporary science, philosophy, art, mathematics, design, architecture, and politics. SMR was founded by the Center for Philosophical Technologies at Arizona State University, The Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities Skopje, the Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics at TU Vienna, and the Critical Inquiry Lab at the Design Academy Eindhoven and serves as a global hub for education, research, and experimentation at the intersection of the humanities, social sciences, creative fields, and the STEM sciences.

Faculty: Achille Mbembe, Amanda Beech, Thomas Nail, Paul Cockshott, Anne-Françoise Schmidt Guest Lecturers: Agon Hamza, Aragorn Eloff, Alexander Wilson, Ben Woodard, Chantelle Gray, David Roden, Davor Löffler, Giuseppe Longo, Greg Michaelson, Hanno Pahl, Jan Overwijk, Jean-Pierre Caron, Jeremy R. Smith, John Ó Maoilearca, Jonathan Fardy, Keti Chukhrov, Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Nina Power, Ray Brassier, Reid Kotlas, Rick Dolphijn, Rick Elmore, Romina Wainberg, Thomas Nail, Tony Yanick, Tzuchien Tho, Willow Verkerk

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