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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction: Literature and philosophy in the world without us
1 Of Meillassoux’s contingencies and Scott’s plots
2 Affect and air
Romantic aerography: Pneumatics, affect, and the forgetting of air
Conclusion: Charlotte Smith’s Living Atoms and viewless Æronauts
3 Feeling as hyperobject in Wordsworth’s The Prelude
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II
III
4 Blank oblivion, condemned life
5 Speculative enthusiasm
6 Surfing the crimson wave
“What to say when you see me”: Prosopopoeia’s moony assemblages and apparatuses
Withdrawn objects, the feminine mystique, and dynamic things
Shape-shifting into an onto-politics
7 Romantic postapocalyptic politics
Alive enough to have the strength to die
Learning to live
“You know where you are? You’re in the jungle, baby, you gonna die!”
The upside down
Dead enough to have the strength to live
Romantic postapocalyptic politics
8 Astral guts: The nemocentric self in Byron and Brassier
Between zero and Juan
Eaten by his own dinner
Into darkness
(G)astronomical difference
9 A perilous change of correspondence
The mountain and the map
The hedgehog and the moon
(De) Man and [Nature]
“Power in likeness of the Arve”
10 Plasticity, poetry, and the end of art
Histories of plasticity
A speculative aesthetics
“The laws of spirit are metrical . . . Spirit can only express itself rhythmically”
Plasticity’s remains
11 Poe’s Black Cat
Reviewing Lovecraft’s style
Interlude
The Black Cat
Organizing seventy-three black cats
Variety
Humor
The supernatural
Sudden incident
Psychology
Proof
Concluding remarks
12 Objects taken for wonders in Equiano’s Interesting Narrative
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IV
13 An object-oriented media studies
The being of media
The aesthetics of cookery books
Notes on Contributors
Index
Copyright Page
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