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Record Nr.

UNINA9910410648103321

Autore

Austin Michael

Titolo

Speculations II / edited by Michael Austin, Paul J. Ennis, Fabio Gironi, and Thomas Gokey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brooklyn, NY, : punctum books, 2020

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

9781953035028

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 pages)

Soggetti

Realism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Tractatus Mathematico-Politicus : on Alain Badiou's Being and event / Christopher Norris -- The philosopher, the sophist, the undercurrent and Alain Badiou / Marianna Papastephanou -- On the reality and construction of hyperobjects with reference to class / Levi R. Bryant -- Structure, sense and territory / Michael Austin -- The anxiousness of objects and artworks : Michael Fried, object oriented ontology and aesthetic absorption / Robert Jackson -- The cubist object : black boxes, überrealism and the metaphysics of perspectives / Hilan Bensusan -- Correlationism reconsidered : on the 'possibility of ignorance' in Meillassoux / Josef Moshe -- Sublime objects / Timothy Morton -- Unknowing animals / Nicola Masciandaro -- Networkologies : a manifesto, section II / Christopher Vitale -- 'Girls welcome!!!' : speculative realism, object oriented ontology and queer theory / Michael O'Rourke -- Science and philosophy : a conversation with Sean Carroll / Fabio Gironi -- After life by Eugene Thacker / Anthony Paul Smith -- Insect media : an archeology of animals and technology by Jussi Parikka / Beatrice Marovich -- Towards speculative realism by Graham Harman / Fintan Neylan.

Sommario/riassunto

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. …"