Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature

My second article in the Encyclopedia just posted, though it’s behind a payment firewall, HERE.

The previously commissioned article, published last year, was on Object-Oriented Ontology. There I dealt with my own work and some of Timothy Morton’s.

The Speculation article deals mostly with two topics: (1) Meillassoux’s fantastic book on Mallarmé, The Number and the Siren; (2) Tom Eyers’s interesting book Speculative Formalism, and in passing with the brilliant and highly relevant Forms by Caroline Levine. Needless to say, I agree with Levine’s position more than Eyers’s, but Eyers is always a smart cookie and worth reading.