Radical Reliance Collective

About the Collective
This collective began in September 2024 at The Feminine in an Age of Anthropological Transformation, a gathering in Olympiada, Greece convened around the work of Julia Kristeva. Our connection emerged in the interstices; between seminars and swims, over meals, and in lingering conversations by the sea. What began as informal exchanges evolved into a cross-border dialogue sustained by friendship, shared concerns, and a commitment to collaborative thinking. Our work first cohered around a co-authored paper submitted to GENDER – Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, exploring Kristeva’s notion of the Feminine as a transformative and counter-hegemonic episteme. Informed by psychoanalysis, queer theory, and intersectional feminism, we propose care as radical reliance, seeking to think from and toward interdependence. The collective brings together Louisa Kamrath (University of Bayreuth), Guilherme Giantini (Independent researcher), and Marie Theresa Crick (Goldsmiths, University of London) and continues to grow through ongoing conversations, writing, and embodied exchange.

Coming from a background of political and feminist theory, her current research explores the interplay of categorical thinking and agency at the intersection of cultural theory, embodied cognition, and psychoanalysis. In addition to publishing and teaching at Humboldt University of Berlin, these themes are central to her PhD project, which is a qualitative sociological study on precarious motherhood in Berlin.

Louisa.Kamrath@uni-bayreuth.d

Having contributed to scientific publications in architecture, design technology and, more recently, design philosophy, his current research is concerned with critical design studies, where theories from the humanities form the basis of ontological design critique. Integrating continental philosophy alongside feminist, posthuman, and queer theoretical frameworks, the anthropocene is addressed as a central area of critical inquiry with interdisciplinary approaches to theory and practice for imagining and materialising lines of flight through design and art.

giantinigui@gmail.com

Marie Theresa Crick is an interdisciplinary artist, Visiting Lecturer, and PhD researcher. Her practice-based research extends Luce Irigaray’s concept of “shared air” through transnational feminisms and embodied methodologies. Her work develops breath-led methods to reimagine maternal relations as sites of transformation. She examines Irish Catholic maternal shame, migration, and trauma, attending to silence and rupture through film, philosophy, performance and embodied workshops. Her research has been shared in academic, artistic, and community contexts, fostering collaborative spaces for critical dialogue.

mcric003@gold.ac.uk