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 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.

About the author

Christine Hanke hat den Lehrstuhl für Digitale und Audiovisuelle Medien an der Universität Bayreuth inne und forscht in den Bereichen Medien-Widerstand, Postcolonial Studies und Bildtheorie.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jeanne Cortiel, Christine Hanke, Jan Simon Hutta
• Assisted by: Jeanne Cortiel (Editor), Christin Hanke (Editor), Christine Hanke (Editor), Jan Si Hutta (Editor), Jan Simon Hutta (Editor), Colin Milburn (Editor), Jan Simon Hutta et al (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2020
• EAN: 9783837647518
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-4751-8
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 20 mm x 233 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Illustrations: 3 SW-Abb., 20 Farbabb.
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft; Culture & Theory; Culture & Theory (COL)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein, Allgemeines, Wissenschaft, Sustainability, Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Medienwissenschaften, Literature, Media, Culture, General Literature Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Aesthetics, Science, Social interaction, Social & cultural history, Sociology of Knowledge, General & world history, Environmental Economics, auseinandersetzen, Graphic novels: history & criticism, Comic book & cartoon art, Human Geography, Sociology and anthropology, Drawing and drawings, Culture and institutions, Factors affecting social behavior, Social processes, Macroeconomics and related topics, History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines, Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric, American literature in English, English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures, Speculation