...Elizabeth de Freitas This work of speculative fiction and commentary describes a laboratory focused on human sense and affect. The laboratory is alive with computational capacity, recursively elaborating and generating data. The very notion of recording data is radically reconceived through...

...Stanimir Panayotov Stanimir Panayotov Speculum of the Pruning-Scissors (on Katerina Kolozova and Eileen A. Joy, eds., After the “Speculative Turn”: Realism, Philosophy, and Feminism) After ten years of biting the dust of speculative realism (hereafter SR), scholars are now...

...Andrew Cole This essay is a critique of actor-network theory (ANT), vitalism, and object-oriented ontology (OOO, or “speculative realism”), as advanced by Bruno Latour, Jane Bennett, and Graham Harman and his colleagues. It focuses on the contradiction within these newer philosophies. Each holds...

... of the Anthropocene to the wider discourse of posthumanism and also touches upon the importance of speculative realism as well as genres like the science-fiction novel to help us conceptualize our new condition. A brief summary of each of the ten essays in the focus section follows. © 2014 Virginia Tech 2014...

...Bruce Holsinger This essay investigates the compelling affinities between the premodern mythographic tradition and the various schools of thought grouped under the rubrics of speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, and vitalism. Like mythography proper, much of this work entails...

...D. Vance Smith This article examines the various limits of knowledge in Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale as a critique of finitude in object-oriented philosophy and speculative realism. The phrase “death shall be dead” is the form of the receding limits that emerge when finitude is revoked, the lack...

...Nicole M. Merola This essay considers Jeanette Winterson’s speculative novel The Stone Gods for the literary, formal, and tonal strategies it employs to diagnose and illuminate the material burdens of producing and living in the Anthropocene. Using the geologic tool of stratigraphy in concert...

..., vision, and speculation—turns into an intellectual and yet material and physical power. Such a literacy would be an impersonal kind of literacy, a literacy for which poetics, mathematics, and the sciences are inextricably linked in the domain of what is here called—in distinction to atom time—atomic time...

..., heteronormativity, neurotypicality, affluence, Anglocentrism). Any collection of books is a speculative endeavor; as material objects they can be bought and sold, or admired for their design or scarcity, much like any other commodity. But their capacity to be read or not read opens up to a sphere of encounter...

... . Harman Graham . 2018 . Speculative Realism: An Introduction . Boston : Polity Press . Lauck Jon K. Whitney Gleaves Hogan Joseph , eds. 2018 . Finding a New Mid-western History . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press . Marrs Cody Hager Christopher , eds. 2019...

... Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Jackson Zakiyyah Iman . 2020 . Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World . New York : New York University Press . King Tiffany Lethabo . 2019 . The Black Shoals...

... and relations, in general —​under a variety of labels, including actor-network-theory, speculative realism, new materialism, and material feminisms (see Wolf 2010; Alaimo and Hekman 2008; Coole and Frost 2010; Bryant, Srnicek, and Harman 2011). As early as the 1980s, Donna Haraway had already...

...: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Di Leo, Jeffrey R., and Peter Hitchcock, eds. 2016. The New Public Intellectual: Politics, Theory, and the Public Sphere. New York: Palgrave. Farge, Arlette, and Michel Foucault. 2017. Disorderly Families...

... Copyright © 2019 Virginia Tech 2019 Ankerson Megan . 2018 . Dot-Com Design: The Rise of a Usable, Social, Commercial Web . New York : NYU Press . Bahng Aimee . 2018 . Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times . Durham, NC : Duke University Press...

... to claim that his Christian mysticism was not “Catholicism stricto sensu, no more than Orthodox churches” (Nancy 2012, 13). Ezekiel’s Vision And the child kept on speculating about the hashmal. A fire went forth from thehashmal and consumed him...

... speculations of interference and some visible modes and movements of unease between the two conversants. Mrs. Brown has something pinched about her something that inspires speculation about her life, background, and emotions. If Mr. Smith makes Woolf connect with certain thoughts, Mrs. Brown awakens thoughts...

... speculative essay is an “anti-credo”—an attempt to think through our apostasy. My title and its definitions circle round the verbs “renounce” and “forsake.” I cannot think of a more troubling betwixt and between since to renounce something is not necessarily to forsake something. When we renounce...

... are not obstacles to thought, but preconditions for thought, and that even the most abstract and highly flown speculations build on our commitments rather than transcending them. The method of articulation has driven much of my thinking about literature and culture, even though I stumbled across...

... of computer-aided translation in a memorandum from July 1949, Weaver speculated that there were “certain invariant properties” common to all languages and that this linguistic foundation, along with the deciphering techniques developed during the war, would 108 the minnesota review make...

...). Retrospectatiousness combines retrospect and spectate but also carries a hint of speculate and expectations (if never great, for Mr Polly). The qualifying melancholic, especially arising here in the wake of his attempted consultation with the little brown and grey bird (77), sounds a note that resonates across...