Mortimer / Alejandra Luján Escalante The Trouble with Speculation

Natures, Futures, Politics
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4424-3
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Global Discourse

Bringing together contributors from Europe, North America and Australia, this book questions the purpose and outcomes of speculation in practical settings.

In the context of interrelated and complex global challenges, speculation is not just useful but necessary. The chapters in this book present a cross-disciplinary dialogue of people that are developing work in speculation and interrogates its practices and ethical and political charges. Through these discussions, the book explores the potential of speculation in addressing issues such as climate change, urban futures and new political practices.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mortimer, Christine

Alejandra Luján Escalante, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Futurologie (Interdisziplinär)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Christine Mortimer and Maria Alejandra Luján Escalante

PART 1: Scaffolding

Foreword to Part 1 - Laura Forlano

1. Speculation with Glitches: Keeping the Future Moving - Shawn Bodden and Jen Ross

2. Investments in the Imaginary: Commercial Drone Speculations and Relations - Anna Jackman and Maximilian Jablonowski

3. Dystopias for Discourse: The Role of the Artist in a Rapidly Reconfiguring City - Clare McCracken

4. New Images of Thought: On Two Kinds of Speculative Realism - Arjen Kleinherenbrink

PART 2: More-than-Human Worlds

Foreword to Part 2 - Anne Galloway

5. Speculative Listening: Melting Sea Ice and New Methods of Listening with the Planet - Kaya Barry, Michelle Duffy and Michele Lobo

6. It Matters What Designs Design Designs: Speculations on Multispecies Worlding - Michelle Westerlaken

7. Edible Speculations: Designing Everyday Oracles for Food Futures - Markéta Dolejšová

PART 3: Speculative Ethics

Foreword to Part 3 - James Fathers

8. Beyond Speculation: Using Speculative Methods to Surface Ethics and Positionality in Design Practice and Pedagogy - Melanie Levick-Parkin, Eve Stirling, Maria Hanson and

Roger Bateman

9. Touring the Carbon Ruins: Towards an Ethics of Speculative Decarbonisation - Paul Graham Raven and Johannes Stripple

10. Science Fiction, Reconfigured Social Theory and the Anthropocene Age: Exploring and Thinking about Planetary Futures through Fictional Imaginaries - Yannick Rumpala

The Debate - Nik Baerten

Über Autor(innen)

Mortimer, Christine
Christine Mortimer is Deputy Academic Dean at Lancaster University, UK / Beijing Jiaotong University, China.

Alejandra Luján Escalante, Maria
Maria Alejandra Luján Escalante is Senior Lecturer in Co-Design for Service Design at UAL: London College of Communication, UK.