The Speculative Turn

Posted by | Chris | 26.12.10 | 1 Comment

The Speculative Turn, edited by Graham Harman, Levi Bryant and Nick Srnicek, is now available in book form and in a free to download PDF! I was about to read some more Cyclonopedia but I can't wait to read Graham Harman and Iain H Grant fight it out in print.

Introduction
1. Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek, and Graham Harman, ‘Towards a Speculative Philosophy’
2. Alain Badiou, ‘Interview with Ben Woodard’
Speculative Realism Revisited
3. Graham Harman, ‘On the Undermining of Objects: Grant, Bruno and Radical Philosophy’
4. Iain Hamilton Grant, ‘Mining Conditions: A Response to Harman’
5. Ray Brassier, ‘Concepts and Objects’
6. Iain Hamilton Grant, ‘Does Nature Stay What-it-is? Dynamics and the Antecendence Criterion’
7. Alberto Toscano, ‘Against Speculation, or, A Critique of the Critique of Critique’
After Finitude
8. Adrian Johnston, ‘Hume’s Revenge: À Dieu, Meillassoux?’
9. Martin Hägglund, ‘Radical Atheist Materialism: A Critique of Meillassoux’
10. Peter Hallward, ‘Anything is Possible: A Reading of Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude
11. Nathan Brown, ‘The Speculative and the Specific: On Hallward and Meillassoux’
Politics
12. Nick Srnicek, ‘Capitalism and the Non-Philosophical Subject’
13. Reza Negarestani, ‘Drafting the Inhuman: Conjectures on Capitalism and Organic Necrocracy’
14. Slavoj Žižek, ‘Is it Still Possible to be a Hegelian Today?’
Metaphysics
15. Quentin Meillassoux, ‘Potentiality and Virtuality’
16. François Laruelle, ‘The Generic as Predicate and Constant: Non-Philosophy and Materialism’
17. Levi Bryant, ‘The Ontic Principle: Outline of an Object-Oriented Ontology’
18. Steven Shaviro, ‘The Actual Volcano: Whitehead, Harman and the Problem of Relations’
19. Graham Harman, ‘Response to Shaviro’
20. Bruno Latour, ‘Reflections on Etienne Souriau’s Les différents modes d’existence
21. Gabriel Catren, ‘Outland Empire’
Science
22. Isabelle Stengers, ‘Wondering about Materialism’
23. Manuel DeLanda, ‘Emergence, Causality, and Realism’
24. John Protevi, ‘Ontology, Biology, and History of Affect’
Conclusion
25. Slavoj Žižek, ‘Interview with Ben Woodard’

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One Response to “The Speculative Turn”

  1. peter
    30/12/10 11:13

    its typical that just when i shud be focusing on a specific project that the really interesting thing that i've been desperate to read should come out...

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