The Speculative Turn

We have the more-or-less final proofs in our hands at last. Levi is really the godfather of the project, since it was his idea in the first place. (And this is precisely how I met both Levi and Nick: through this project.)

The total length appears to be 438 pages. Please note that the copyright date is now 2011, so if you’ve cited any essays from this volume based on their draft versions, you’ll need to change the year of appearance.

Here’s the Table of Contents to whet your appetite. Please note that we asked more people than this. Don’t assume that some important people not in the volume were not asked to contribute.

Given that caveat, I think it’s an outstanding collection that ought to be remembered over the coming years as a sort of landmark. What’s completely missing from the collection is mainstream SEP/SPEP continental philosophy.

Contents
1 Towards a Speculative Philosophy
Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman

2 Interview
Alain Badiou and Ben Woodard

3 On the Undermining of Objects: Grant, Bruno, and Radical Philosophy
Graham Harman

4 Mining Conditions: A Response to Harman
Iain Hamilton Grant

5 Concepts and Objects
Ray Brassier

6 Does Nature Stay What-it-is?: Dynamics and the Antecendence Criterion
Iain Hamilton Grant

7 Against Speculation, or, A Critique of the Critique of Critique: A Remark on Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude (After Colletti)
Alberto Toscano

8 Hume’s Revenge: À Dieu, Meillassoux?
Adrian Johnston

9 Radical Atheist Materialism: A Critique of Meillassoux
Martin Hägglund

10 Anything is Possible: A Reading of Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude
Peter Hallward

11 The Speculative and the Specific: On Hallward and Meillassoux
Nathan Brown

12 Capitalism and the Non-Philosophical Subject
Nick Srnicek

13 Drafting the Inhuman: Conjectures on Capitalism and Organic Necrocracy
Reza Negarestani

14 Is it Still Possible to be a Hegelian Today?
Slavoj Žižek

15 Potentiality and Virtuality
Quentin Meillassoux, translated by Robin Mackay

16 The Generic as Predicate and Constant: Non-Philosophy and Materialism
François Laruelle, translated by Taylor Adkins

17 The Ontic Principle: Outline of an Object-Oriented Ontology
Levi R. Bryant

18 The Actual Volcano: Whitehead, Harman, and the Problem of Relations
Steven Shaviro

19 Response to Shaviro
Graham Harman

20 Reflections on Etienne Souriau’s Les différents modes d’existence
Bruno Latour, translated by Stephen Muecke

21 Outland Empire: Prolegomena to Speculative Absolutism
Gabriel Catren, translated by Taylor Adkins

22 Wondering about Materialism
Isabelle Stengers

23 Emergence, Causality and Realism
Manuel DeLanda

24 Ontology, Biology, and History of Affect
John Protevi

25 Interview
Slavoj Žižek and Ben Woodard

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