Practices of Speculation : Modeling, Embodiment, Figuration / Jeanne Cortiel, Christine Hanke, Jan Simon Hutta, Colin Milburn

• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.49
• Soggetto topico: Speculation; Literature; Media; Culture; Science; Cultural Studies; General Literature Studies; Media Aesthetics; Sociology of Knowledge
• Soggetto non controllato: Cultural Studies; General Literature Studies; Literature; Media Aesthetics; Science; Sociology of Knowledge
• Persona (resp. second.): CortielJeanne (Universität Bayreuth, Deutschland); HankeChristine (Universität Bayreuth, Deutschland); HuttaJan Simon (Universität Bayreuth, Deutschland); MilburnColin (University of California, Davis, USA)
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Practices of Speculation 7 Chapter 1: Cultures of Speculation-Histories of Speculation 31 Chapter 2: The Working Planetologist 51 Chapter 3: The Rule of Productivity and the Fear of Transgression 77 Chapter 4: Lagging Realities 97 Chapter 5: "La vie impossible" 119 Chapter 6: Spores of Speculation 145 Chapter 7: Enacting Speculation 167 Chapter 8: Scale and Speculative Futures in Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker and Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 191 Chapter 9: The Lifecycle of Software Engineers 209 Chapter 10: Uncertainty between Image and Text in Ben Templesmith's Singularity 7 221 Chapter 11: This World Which Is Not One 243 List of Figures 275 Biographical Notes 277
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Practices of Speculation
• ISBN: 3-8394-4751-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996398645403316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Edition Kulturwissenschaft