Introduction: Speculative Genealogies / Armen Avanessian and Suhail Malik -- Part I. Genealogy. Chapter 1. Foreign Territory: The Promises and Perils of Speculative Realism / Steven Shaviro ; Chapter 2. Reflections of a Rotten Nature: Hegel, Lacan and Material Negativity / Adrian Johnston ; Chapter 3. For a Realist Systems Theory: Luhmann, the Correlationist Controversy and Materiality / Levi R. Bryant ; Chapter 4. Deleuze: Speculative and Practical Philosophy / Sjoerd van Tuinen -- Part II. Languages of Speculation. Chapter 5. Iteration, Reiteration, Repetition: A Speculative Analysis of the Sign Devoid of Meaning / Quentin Meillassoux ; Translated by Robin Mackay and Moritz Gansen ; Chapter 6. Language Ontology / Armen Avanessian ; Chapter 7. The Realist Novel and 'The Great Outdoors': Towards a Literary-Speculative Realism / Arne De Boever ; Chapter 8. Materialist Reason and its Languages. Part One: Absolute Reason, Absolute Deconstruction / Suhail Malik -- Part III. Science. Chapter 9. Underlabouring for Science: Althusser, Brassier, Bhaskar /Nathan Coombs ; Chapter 10. Formalism, Materialism and Consciousness / Dorothea Olkowski ; Chapter 11. Subtending Relations: Bacteria, Geology and the Possible / Myra J. Hird and Kathryn Yusoff -- Index. |