Practices of speculation : : modeling, embodiment, figuration / / edited by Jeanne Cortiel [and three others].

• Superior document: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; Volume 202
• TeilnehmendeR: Cortiel, Jeanne,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : Transcript Verlag,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; Volume 202.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (279 pages) :; illustrations.

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.

Table of Contents

Practices of speculation / Jeanne Cortiel, Christine Hanke, Jan Simon Hutta, and Colin Milburn -- Cultures of speculation- histories of speculation / Susanne Lachenicht -- The working planetologist : speculative worlds and the practice climate science / Katherine Buse -- The rule of productivity and the fear of transgression : speculative uncertainty in digital games / Felix Raczkowski -- Lagging realities : temporal exploits and mutant speculations / Joseph Dumit -- Embodiment: speculating with matter. "La vie impossible" : germfree life in the microbiome era / Melissa Wills -- Spores of speculation : negotiating mold as contamination / Christoph Schemann -- Enacting speculation : the paradoxical epistemology of performace as research / Wolf-Dieter Ernst and Jan Simon Hutta -- Figuration : speculating with fiction. scale and speculative futures in Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker and Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 / Matthew Hannah and Sylvia Mayer -- The lifecycle of software engineers : geek temporalities and digital labor / Jordan S. Carroll -- Uncertainty between Image and Text in Ben Templesmith's Singularity 7 : interdisciplinary perspectives on narrative and performance / Jeanne Cortiel and Christine Hanke -- This world which is not one : superhero comics and other dimensions of reference / Mark Jerng and Colin Milburn -- List of figures -- Biographical notes.