Speculative Research: The Lure of Possible Futures

ISBN-13: 9780367895129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 236 str.

Alex Wilkie; Martin Savransky; Marsha Rosengarten

Opis

Speculative Research presents a range of innovative contributions that address the take-up of speculative philosophies in empirical sociocultural research to examine and grasp the complex, unforeseen and creative production of possible futures through future-making practices.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Lure of Possible Futures: On Speculative Research  Part 1: Speculative Propositions
Section Introduction  2. The Wager of an Unfinished Present: Notes on Speculative Pragmatism  3. Speculative Research, Temporality and Politics  4. Situated Speculation as a Constraint on Thought  Part 2: Speculative Lures  Section Introduction  5. Pluralities of Action, a Lure for Speculative Thought  6. Doing Speculation to Curtail Speculation  7. Retrocasting: Speculating about the Origins of Money  Part 3: Speculative Techniques 
Section Introduction  8. Sociology’s Archive: Mass-Observation as a Site of Speculative Research  9. Developing Speculative Methods to Explore Speculative Shipping: Mail Art, Futurity and Empiricism  10. Creating Idiotic Speculators: Disaster Cosmopolitics in the Sandbox  11.'Too Sweet to Kill' – A Contribution to the Art of Cosmopolitics  Part 4: Speculative Implications  Section Introduction  12. On Isabelle Stengers’ ‘Cosmopolitics’: A Speculative Adventure  13. Aesthetic Experience, Speculative Thought, and Civilized Life  14. The Lure of the Possible: On the Function of Speculative  Afterword  15. Postscript