Practices of Speculation: Modeling, Embodiment, Figuration

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2020

Practices of Speculation

Modeling, Embodiment, Figuration

Edited by: Jeanne Cortiel , Christine Hanke , Jan Simon Hutta and Colin Milburn

Volume 202 in the series Edition Kulturwissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839447512

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About this book

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 shaping the present through investments in the future, while also looking at speculative practices that reveal transformative potential. The twelve contributions explore concrete instances of envisioning the open unknown and affirmative speculative potentials in history, literature, comics, computer games, mold research, ecosystem science and artistic practice.

Author / Editor information

Jeanne Cortiel is Professor of American Studies at Bayreuth University. Her research interests include American science fiction, post-apocalyptic film, and global catastrophic risk in fiction.
Christine Hanke is Chair of Digital and Audiovisual Media at Bayreuth University and conducts research in the fields of media resistance, postcolonial studies, and image theory.
Jan Simon Hutta is Assistant Professor in the Cultural Geography Research Group at Bayreuth University. His research focuses on formations of power, affect and citizenship in Brazil, sexual and transgender politics, urban governmentality, and relations of subjectivity, movement and space.
Colin Milburn is Gary Snyder Chair in Science and the Humanities and Professor of English, Science and Technology Studies, as well as Cinema and Digital Media at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on the intersections of science, literature, and media technologies.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Practices of Speculation An Introduction Jeanne Cortiel, Christine Hanke, Jan Simon Hutta and Colin Milburn Open Access Download PDF	7
Chapter 1: Cultures of Speculation—Histories of Speculation Susanne Lachenicht Open Access Download PDF	31
Modeling: Speculating with Data
Chapter 2: The Working Planetologist Speculative Worlds and the Practice of Climate Science Katherine Buse Open Access Download PDF	51
Chapter 3: The Rule of Productivity and the Fear of Transgression Speculative Uncertainty in Digital Games Felix Raczkowski Open Access Download PDF	77
Chapter 4: Lagging Realities Temporal Exploits and Mutant Speculations Joseph Dumit Open Access Download PDF	97
Embodiment: Speculating with Matter
Chapter 5: “La vie impossible” Germfree Life in the Microbiome Era Melissa Wills Open Access Download PDF	119
Chapter 6: Spores of Speculation Negotiating Mold as Contamination Christoph Schemann Open Access Download PDF	145
Chapter 7: Enacting Speculation The Paradoxical Epistemology of Performance as Research Wolf-Dieter Ernst and Jan Simon Hutta Open Access Download PDF	167
Figuration: Speculating with Fiction
Chapter 8: Scale and Speculative Futures in Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker and Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312 Matthew Hannah and Sylvia Mayer Open Access Download PDF	191
Chapter 9: The Lifecycle of Software Engineers Geek Temporalities and Digital Labor Jordan S. Carroll Open Access Download PDF	209
Chapter 10: Uncertainty between Image and Text in Ben Templesmith’s Singularity 7 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Narrative and Performance Jeanne Cortiel and Christine Hanke Open Access Download PDF	221
Chapter 11: This World Which Is Not One Superhero Comics and Other Dimensions of Reference Mark Jerng and Colin Milburn Open Access Download PDF	243
List of Figures Open Access Download PDF	275
Biographical Notes Open Access Download PDF	277

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 284
Keywords: Literature; Science; Cultural Studies; General Literature Studies; Media Aesthetics; Sociology of Knowledge

eBook

Published: December 27, 2020
ISBN: 9783839447512