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Speculations II

  • Edited by Michael Austin, Paul J. Ennis, Thomas Gokey

Published on July 30, 2020 by punctum books

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Pages
354 pages
Languages
English
ISBN (PDF)
ISBN: 978-1-953035-02-8 (PDF)
DOI
DOI: 10.21983/P3.344.1.00(opens in new tab)
BISAC subject codes
BISAC: PHI013000
Thema subject codes
THEMA: QDHR7, QDTJ

From the Editorial Introduction: "If the first volume of Speculations was enough of an explicit wager, a willing blind leap in the terra incognita of the publishing world, then this volume forces us to stop and evaluate the reasons for the journal’s protracted existence. This is all the more important when we consider how the range of meanings of the term ‘speculative realism’ seems to be growing—with increasing numbers of thinkers situating themselves in its trail, or holding a somewhat cautious interest in it—while its e ective reference seems nowhere to be found. …"

Contents

  1. Frontmatter (1–4)

    Michael Austin, Paul J. Ennis, Thomas Gokey

  2. Editorial Introduction (5–6)

    Michael Austin, Paul J. Ennis, Thomas Gokey

  3. Tractatus Mathematico-Politicus: On Alain Badiou’s "Being and Event" (7–48)

    Christopher Norris

  4. The Philosopher, the Sophist, the Undercurrent and Alain Badiou (49–85)

    Marianna Papastephanou

  5. On the Reality and Construction of Hyperobjects with Reference to Class (86–103)

    Levi R. Bryant

  6. Structure, Sense and Territory (104–134)

    Michael Austin

  7. The Anxiousness of Objects and Artworks: Michael Fried, Object Oriented Ontology and Aesthetic Absorption (135–168)

    Robert Jackson

  8. The Cubist Object: Black Boxes, Überrealism and the Metaphysics of Perspectives (169–186)

    Hilan Bensusan

  9. Correlationism Reconsidered (187–206)

    Josef Moshe

  10. Sublime Objects (207–227)

    Timothy Morton

  11. Unknowing Animals (228–244)

    Nicola Masciandaro

  12. Networkologies: A Manifesto, Section II (245–274)

    Christopher Vitale

  13. ‘Girls Welcome!!!’ (275–312)

    Michael O'Rourke

  14. Science and Philosophy: A Conversation with Sean Carroll (313–333)

    Fabio Gironi

  15. Review of "After Life" by Eugene Thacker (334–339)

    Anthony Paul Smith

  16. Review of "Insect Media: An Archeology of Animals and Technology" by Jussi Parikka (340–345)

    Beatrice Marovich

  17. Review of "Towards Speculative Realism" by Graham Harman (346–351)

    Fintan Neylan

Biographies

  • Michael Austin

    (Editor)

    Memorial University of Newfoundland

  • Paul J. Ennis

    (Editor) (opens in new tab)

    University College Dublin

  • Thomas Gokey

    (Editor)

    Syracuse University

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Genres

  • Philosophy

Keywords

  • object-oriented ontology
  • philosophy
  • speculative realism