Knowledge Production in Material Spaces av Nikki Fairchild, Carol A. Taylor, Angelo Benozzo, Neil Carey, Mirka Koro, Constanse Elmenhorst

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<p><em>Knowledge Production in Material Spaces</em> is a curation of the interventions that the authors undertook at a range of academic conferences since 2016. It problematizes disciplined practices and expectations governing academic conference spaces and generates new ways of thinking and doing conferences otherwise. </p><p>The authors use posthuman, feminist materialist and post-qualitative theories to disrupt knowledge production in neoliberal and bureaucratic conferences spaces. The analysis they offer, and the rhizomatic writing and presentational styles they use, promote a form of educational activism through theory. They interrogate the conference space as a regulated, normalized and standardized mode of academic knowledge production - which they call the ''AcademicConferenceMachine'' - and playfully subvert the dominant meanings and modes of conferences and workshops to show how we can better interact and produce research, with and for each other. The authors indicate how cre