The Speculative Turn

I’m a bit behind the curve on this due to time zone difference, but pasted below is the (rather exciting) Table of Contents of The Speculative Turn. (My only disappointment is that a few people were unable to participate who would have added a lot to the volume.)

The reason I’m always listed last of the three editors is because that’s exactly where I deserve to be. This has been Levi and Nick’s brainchild from the beginning, and in fact I “met” them for the first time about 15 months ago only because they asked me to be a contributor to the collection. I helped them make a few contacts among the authors, and on that basis they overrated my importance to the project and added me as a co-editor. Very nice of them. Actually, I’m starting to earn my stripes a bit now with some editorial work.

All that aside, I think this will be a fairly important event in these circles.

The Speculative Turn

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’