Practices of Speculation : Modeling, Embodiment, Figuration /

This volume offers innovative ways to think about speculation at a time when anticipation of catastrophe in an apocalyptic mode is the order of the day and shapes public discourse on a global scale. It maps an interdisciplinary field of investigation: the chapters interrogate hegemonic ways of shapi...

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Otros Autores: Christine, Hanke (Contribuidor), Christoph, Schemann (Contribuidor), Colin, Milburn (Contribuidor), Cortiel, Jeanne (Editor ), Felix, Raczkowski (Contribuidor), Hanke, Christine (Editor ), Hutta, Jan Simon (Editor ), Jan Simon, Hutta (Contribuidor), Jeanne, Cortiel (Contribuidor), Jordan S., Carroll (Contribuidor), Joseph, Dumit (Contribuidor), Katherine, Buse (Contribuidor), Mark, Jerng (Contribuidor), Matthew, Hannah (Contribuidor), Melissa, Wills (Contribuidor), Milburn, Colin (Editor ), Susanne, Lachenicht (Contribuidor), Sylvia, Mayer (Contribuidor), Wolf-Dieter, Ernst (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2021]
Colección:Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 202
Temas:
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Cultural Studies.
General Literature Studies.
Literature.
Media Aesthetics.
Science.
Sociology of Knowledge.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Practices of Speculation
  • Chapter 1: Cultures of Speculation--Histories of Speculation
  • Modeling: Speculating with Data
  • Chapter 2: The Working Planetologist
  • Chapter 3: The Rule of Productivity and the Fear of Transgression
  • Chapter 4: Lagging Realities
  • Embodiment: Speculating with Matter
  • Chapter 5: "La vie impossible"
  • Chapter 6: Spores of Speculation
  • Chapter 7: Enacting Speculation
  • Figuration: Speculating with Fiction
  • Chapter 8: Scale and Speculative Futures in Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker and Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312
  • Chapter 9: The Lifecycle of Software Engineers
  • Chapter 10: Uncertainty between Image and Text in Ben Templesmith's Singularity 7
  • Chapter 11: This World Which Is Not One
  • List of Figures
  • Biographical Notes

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