Speculative research : the lure of possible futures / edited by Alex Wilkie, Martin Savransky and Marsha Rosengarten.
Is another future possible? So called 'late modernity' is marked by the escalating rise in and proliferation of uncertainties and unforeseen events brought about by the interplay between and patterning of social-natural, techno-scientific and political-economic developments. The future has...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Speculative research and the politics of alternatives / Martin Savransky, Alex Wilkie & Marsha Rosengarten
- Speculative propositions
- The wager of an unfinished present : notes on speculative pragmatism / Martin Savransky
- Speculative research, temporality and politics / Rosalyn Diprose
- Situated speculation as a constraint on thought / Michael Halewood
- Speculative lures
- Pluralities of action, a lure for speculative thought / Marsha Rosengarten
- Doing speculation to curtail speculation / Alex Wilkie & Mike Michael
- Retrocasting : speculating about the origins of money / Joe Deville
- Speculative techniques
- Sociology's archive : mass-observation as a site of speculative research / Lisa Adkins
- Developing speculative methods to explore speculative shipping : mail art, futurity and empiricism / Rebecca Coleman
- Creating idiotic speculators : disaster cosmopolitics in the sandbox / Michael Guggenheim, Bernd Kräftner & Judith Kröll
- "Too sweet to kill" : a contribution to the art of cosmopolitics / Michael Schillmeier & Yvonne Lee Schultz
- Speculative implications
- On Isabelle Stengers' "cosmopolitics" : a speculative adventure / Vikki Bell
- Aesthetic experience, speculative thought, and civilized life / Michael L. Thomas
- The lure of the possible : on the function of speculative / Didier Debaise
- Afterword
- Postscript / Monica Greco.