Speculative Research: The Lure of Possible Futures

Introduction -- Speculative Research And The Politics Of Alternatives / Martin Savransky, Alex Wilkie & Marsha Rosengarten -- Speculative Propositions -- The Wager Of An Unfinished Present : Notes On Speculative Pragmatism / Martin Savransky -- Speculative Research, Temporality And Politics / Rosalyn Diprose -- Situated Speculation As A Constraint On Thought / Michael Halewood -- Speculative Lures -- Pluralities Of Action, A Lure For Speculative Thought / Marsha Rosengarten -- Doing Speculation To Curtail Speculation / Alex Wilkie & Mike Michael -- Retrocasting : Speculating About The Origins Of Money / Joe Deville -- Speculative Techniques -- Sociology's Archive : Mass-observation As A Site Of Speculative Research / Lisa Adkins -- Developing Speculative Methods To Explore Speculative Shipping : Mail Art, Futurity And Empiricism / Rebecca Coleman -- Creating Idiotic Speculators : Disaster Cosmopolitics In The Sandbox / Michael Guggenheim, Bernd Kräftner & Judith Kröll -- Too Sweet To Kill : A Contribution To The Art Of Cosmopolitics / Michael Schillmeier & Yvonne Lee Schultz -- Speculative Implications -- On Isabelle Stengers' Cosmopolitics : A Speculative Adventure / Vikki Bell -- Aesthetic Experience, Speculative Thought, And Civilized Life / Michael L. Thomas -- The Lure Of The Possible : On The Function Of Speculative / Didier Debaise -- Afterword -- Postscript / Monica Greco. Edited By Alex Wilkie, Martin Savransky And Marsha Rosengarten. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.