Genealogies of Speculation

Dr. Armen Avanessian teaches at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and is co-author of Speculative Drawing (Sternberg Press, 2014) and Present Tense (Bloomsbury, 2015). Dr. Suhail Malik is Reader in Critical Studies in the Department of Art, Goldsmiths, London, UK.

Acknowledgements
Contributor Biographies
Armen Avanessian and Suhail Malik – Introduction: Speculative Genealogies

GENEALOGY
1. Steven Shaviro – Foreign Territory: The Promises and Perils of Speculative Realism
2. Adrian Johnston – Reflections of a Rotten Nature: Hegel, Lacan and Material Negativity
3. Levi R. Bryant – For a Realist Systems Theory: Luhmann, the Correlationist Controversy and Materiality
4. Sjoerd van Tuinen -Deleuze: Speculative and Practical Philosophy

5. Quentin Meillassoux – Iteration, Reiteration, Repetition: A Speculative Materialist Analysis of the Sign Devoid of Meaning

GENEALOGY
1. Steven Shaviro – Foreign Territory: The Promises and Perils of Speculative Realism
2. Adrian Johnston – Reflections of a Rotten Nature: Hegel, Lacan and Material Negativity
3. Levi R. Bryant – For a Realist Systems Theory: Luhmann, the Correlationist Controversy and Materiality
4. Sjoerd van Tuinen -Deleuze: Speculative and Practical Philosophy

LANGUAGES OF SPECULATION
5. Quentin Meillassoux – Iteration, Reiteration, Repetition: A Speculative Materialist Analysis of the Sign Devoid of Meaning
6. Armen Avanessian – Language Ontology
7. Arne De Boever – The Realist Novel and 'the Great Outdoors': Towards a Literary-Speculative Realism
8. Suhail Malik – Materialist Reason and its Languages. Part One: Absolute Reason, Absolute Deconstruction

SCIENCE
9. Nathan Coombs – Underlabouring for Science: Althusser, Brassier, Bhaskar
10. Dorothea Olkowski – Formalism, Materialism and Consciousness
11. Myra J. Hird and Kathryn Yusoff – Subtending Relations: Bacteria, Geology and the Possible

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