Practices of Speculation
Modeling, Embodiment, Figuration
DOI: 10.14361/9783839447512
Abstract
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.
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Beiträge
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Frontmatter
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- Cortiel, Jeanne | Hanke, Christine | Hutta, Jan Simon | Milburn, Colin
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Contents
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- Cortiel, Jeanne | Hanke, Christine | Hutta, Jan Simon | Milburn, Colin
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Practices of Speculation
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- Cortiel, Jeanne | Hanke, Christine | Hutta, Jan Simon | Milburn, Colin
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Chapter 1: Cultures of Speculation—Histories of Speculation
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- Lachenicht, Susanne
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Modeling: Speculating with Data
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Chapter 2: The Working Planetologist
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- Buse, Katherine
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Chapter 3: The Rule of Productivity and the Fear of Transgression
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- Raczkowski, Felix
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Chapter 4: Lagging Realities
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- Dumit, Joseph
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Embodiment: Speculating with Matter
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Chapter 5: "La vie impossible"
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- Wills, Melissa
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Chapter 6: Spores of Speculation
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- Schemann, Christoph
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Chapter 7: Enacting Speculation
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- Ernst, Wolf-Dieter | Hutta, Jan Simon
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Figuration: Speculating with Fiction
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Chapter 8: Scale and Speculative Futures in Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker and Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312
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- Hannah, Matthew | Mayer, Sylvia
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Chapter 9: The Lifecycle of Software Engineers
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- Carroll, Jordan S.
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Chapter 10: Uncertainty between Image and Text in Ben Templesmith's Singularity 7
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- Cortiel, Jeanne | Hanke, Christine
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Chapter 11: This World Which Is Not One
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- Jerng, Mark | Milburn, Colin
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List of Figures
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- Cortiel, Jeanne | Hanke, Christine | Hutta, Jan Simon | Milburn, Colin
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Biographical Notes
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- Cortiel, Jeanne | Hanke, Christine | Hutta, Jan Simon | Milburn, Colin
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