Practices of Speculation
Modeling, Embodiment, Figuration
This volume offers innovative ways to think about speculation at a time when anticipation of catastrophe in an apocalyptic mode is the order of the day and shapes public discourse on a global scale. It maps an interdisciplinary field of investigation: the chapters interrogate hegemonic ways of shaping the present through investments in the future, while also looking at speculative practices that reveal transformative potential. The twelve contributions explore concrete instances of envisioning the open unknown and affirmative speculative potentials in history, literature, comics, computer games, mold research, ecosystem science and artistic practice.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Practices of Speculation
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Chapter 1: Cultures of Speculation—Histories of Speculation
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Modeling: Speculating with Data
Chapter 2: The Working Planetologist
Seiten 51 - 76 -
Chapter 3: The Rule of Productivity and the Fear of Transgression
Seiten 77 - 96 -
Chapter 4: Lagging Realities
Seiten 97 - 116 -
Embodiment: Speculating with Matter
Chapter 5: "La vie impossible"
Seiten 119 - 144 -
Chapter 6: Spores of Speculation
Seiten 145 - 166 -
Chapter 7: Enacting Speculation
Seiten 167 - 188 -
Figuration: Speculating with Fiction
Chapter 8: Scale and Speculative Futures in Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker and Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312
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Chapter 9: The Lifecycle of Software Engineers
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Chapter 10: Uncertainty between Image and Text in Ben Templesmith's Singularity 7
Seiten 221 - 242 -
Chapter 11: This World Which Is Not One
Seiten 243 - 274 -
List of Figures
Seiten 275 - 276 -
Biographical Notes
Seiten 277 - 284
5 January 2021, 284 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4751-8
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