Beschreibung:
Introduction -- Speculative research and the politics of alternatives / Martin Savransky, Alex Wilkie & Marsha Rosengarten -- Speculative propositions -- The wager of an unfinished present : notes on speculative pragmatism / Martin Savransky -- Speculative research, temporality and politics / Rosalyn Diprose -- Situated speculation as a constraint on thought / Michael Halewood -- Speculative lures -- Pluralities of action, a lure for speculative thought / Marsha Rosengarten -- Doing speculation to curtail speculation / Alex Wilkie & Mike Michael -- Retrocasting : speculating about the origins of money / Joe Deville -- Speculative techniques -- Sociology's archive : mass-observation as a site of speculative research / Lisa Adkins -- Developing speculative methods to explore speculative shipping : mail art, futurity and empiricism / Rebecca Coleman -- Creating idiotic speculators : disaster cosmopolitics in the sandbox / Michael Guggenheim, Bernd Kräftner & Judith Kröll -- "Too sweet to kill" : a contribution to the art of cosmopolitics / Michael Schillmeier & Yvonne Lee Schultz -- Speculative implications -- On Isabelle Stengers' "cosmopolitics" : a speculative adventure / Vikki Bell -- Aesthetic experience, speculative thought, and civilized life / Michael L. Thomas -- The lure of the possible : on the function of speculative / Didier Debaise -- Afterword -- Postscript / Monica Greco