The table of contents has been finalized for The Speculative Turn. We’re pretty far along in the editorial process, so it shouldn’t be too long now. From the articles I’ve read so far I think it’s going to be a fantastic collection. My only regret is that it is not a more diverse collection. We tried very hard to balance out voices, but some withdrew, disappeared, or were caught up in other projects. Hopefully future collections will solve this problem.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek, and Graham Harman, ‘Towards a Speculative Philosophy’
2. Alain Badiou, ‘Interview with Ben Woodard’
Speculative Realism Revisited
3. Graham Harman, ‘On the Undermining of Objects: Grant, Bruno and Radical Philosophy’
4. Iain Hamilton Grant, ‘Mining Conditions: A Response to Harman’
5. Ray Brassier, ‘Concepts and Objects’
6. Iain Hamilton Grant, ‘Does Nature Stay What-it-is? Powers Materialism and the Antecendence Criterion’
7. Alberto Toscano, ‘Against Speculation, or, A Critique of the Critique of Critique’
After Finitude
8. Adrian Johnston, ‘Hume’s Revenge: À Dieu, Meillassoux?’
9. Martin Hägglund, ‘Radical Atheist Materialism: A Critique of Meillassoux’
10. Peter Hallward, ‘Anything is Possible: A Reading of Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude’
11. Nathan Brown, ‘The Speculative and the Specific: On Hallward and Meillassoux’
Politics
12. Nick Srnicek, ‘Capitalism and the Non-Philosophical Subject’
13. Reza Negarestani, ‘Drafting the Inhuman: Conjectures on Capitalism and Organic Necrocracy’
14. Slavoj Žižek, ‘Is it Still Possible to be a Hegelian Today?’
Metaphysics
15. Quentin Meillassoux, ‘Potentiality and Virtuality’
16. François Laruelle, ‘The Generic as Predicate and Constant: Non-Philosophy and Materialism’
17. Levi Bryant, ‘The Ontic Principle: Outline of an Object-Oriented Ontology’
18. Steven Shaviro, ‘The Actual Volcano: Whitehead, Harman and the Problem of Relations’
19. Graham Harman, ‘Response to Shaviro’
20. Bruno Latour, ‘Reflections on Etienne Souriau’s Les différents modes d’existence’
21. Gabriel Catren, ‘Outland Empire’
Science
22. Isabelle Stengers, ‘Wondering about Materialism’
23. Manuel DeLanda, ‘Emergence, Causality, and Realism’
24. John Protevi, ‘Ontology, Biology, and History of Affect’
Conclusion
25. Slavoj Žižek, ‘Interview with Ben Woodard’
October 6, 2009 at 1:13 am
very exciting, especially (3) harman and grant’s response. on your solo piece, similar in content to the similarly titled posts from not too long past? also, something ive seen in compilations, but never given a chance to ask a participant, until now: how do groups, two or more, write a single article?
October 6, 2009 at 1:18 am
Dillon,
No, my contribution is a lot more elaborate and argumentatively developed with a lot of pointers to what I’ll be developing in The Democracy of Objects than my earlier posts on the ontic principle.
October 6, 2009 at 2:36 am
I feel that ”Dr Sinthome and the Objects” should be included in this volume.
October 6, 2009 at 3:16 am
Well that’s not going to happen, but I did appreciate the satire.
October 6, 2009 at 5:25 am
Way cool, can’t wait to feast my vile jellies on this baby! Out of curiosity, do you happen to know if Zizek has already responded to, done new work in relation to SR, or will this be his first public response/contribution, publication-wise, to the speculative philosophies? I’m sort of especially curious to see where he goes, what he does when presented with SR and its manifestations, seeing as I have less of a sense of him in relation to them as I do, say, of Badiou in regards to SR.
Very glad you decided to re-enable, go the filtered comments route. I guess your haters will just have to make their points with pins in the eyes of little Levi voodoo dolls. (Actually, voodoo-related consequences aside, a SR doll line is kind of a great idea. That makes me think: If Voice of Parodic Reason has no natural home in The Speculative Turn, should it ever should happen that SR spins off its own line of philosophical action figures, he should definitely be the first pick to design them, lol.)
October 6, 2009 at 5:46 am
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October 6, 2009 at 7:22 am
Looks good. It must be a very big book.
Any idea when we will be able to get our hands on it?
October 6, 2009 at 8:31 pm
johneffay, I’m afraid it could be May or June. There’s a late January deadline for May/June, and with busy people like us that’s probably how long it’s going to take us to cross all the t’s and dot all the i’s.
But the great part is, since it’s re.press– immediate access to it on line.
October 6, 2009 at 8:32 pm
slattedlight, my favorite part of the forgettable recent exchange was when it was claimed that I had invented you as an alias.
How does it feel to be my fictional creation? *lol*
October 7, 2009 at 12:50 am
What can I tell you, Dr. Z? It feels downright magical! haha
October 7, 2009 at 12:59 am
What I found so amusing is that anyone could confuse your style with Dr. Z’s. Where has Dr. Z anywhere written such lengthy posts, whether on his blog or in responding to others?
October 7, 2009 at 1:07 am
LS, ah! but you must understand, that deceptive non-Harmanian lengthiness is all of a part of Dr. Z’s ingenious hoodwinkery. Look how autonomous I seem! Just like a real boy! lol
October 7, 2009 at 7:19 am
Thanks for the info on the book, Graham.
October 12, 2009 at 12:59 pm
*fingers crossed for Korean bookstores picking this up*