Genealogies of Speculation Materialism and Subjectivity Since Structuralism

includes index and biblioraphy

Introduction: Speculative Genealogies - Armen Avanessian and Suhail Malik 1 Part 1: Genealogy 27 Foreign Territory: The Promises and Perils of Speculative Realism - Steven Shaviro 29 Reflections of a Rotten Nature: Hegel, Lacan and Material Negativity - Adrian Johnston 41 For a Realist Systems Theory: Luhmann, the Correlationist Controversy and Materiality - Levi R. Bryant 70 4 Deleuze: Speculative and Practical Philosophy -Sjoerd van Tuinen 99 Part 2: Languages of Speculation 115 5 Iteration, Reiteration, Repetition: A Speculative Analysis of the Sign Devoid of Meaning - Quentin MeiHassowA; 117 6 Language Ontology - Armen Avanessian 199 7 The Realist Novel and `the Great Outdoors`: Towards a Literary-Speculative Realism - Arne De Boever 217 8 Materialist Reason and its Languages. Part One: Absolute Reason, Absolute Deconstruction - Suhail Malik 238 Part 3: Science 269 9 Underlabouring for Science: Althusser, Brassier, Bhaskar - Nathan Coombs 271 10 Formalism, Materialism and Consciousness -Dorothea Olkowski 300 11 Subtending Relations: Bacteria, Geology and the Possible -MyraJ. Hird and Kathryn Yusoff 319