CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction: Speculative Genealogies – Armen Avanessian and Suhail Malik

Part 1: Genealogy

1Foreign Territory: The Promises and Perils of Speculative Realism – Steven Shaviro

2Reflections of a Rotten Nature: Hegel, Lacan and Material Negativity – Adrian Johnston

3For a Realist Systems Theory: Luhmann, the Correlationist Controversy and Materiality – Levi R. Bryant

4Deleuze: Speculative and Practical Philosophy – Sjoerd van Tuinen

Part 2: Languages of Speculation

5Iteration, Reiteration, Repetition: A Speculative Analysis of the Sign Devoid of Meaning – Quentin Meillassoux

6Language Ontology – Armen Avanessian

7The Realist Novel and ‘the Great Outdoors’: Towards a Literary-Speculative Realism – Arne De Boever

8Materialist Reason and its Languages. Part One: Absolute Reason, Absolute Deconstruction – Suhail Malik

Part 3: Science

9Underlabouring for Science: Althusser, Brassier, Bhaskar – Nathan Coombs

10Formalism, Materialism and Consciousness – Dorothea Olkowski

11Subtending Relations: Bacteria, Geology and the Possible – Myra J. Hird and Kathryn Yusoff

Index