Speculations design

I just wanted to remind people that they can follow Thomas Gokey's designing of Speculations over at his blog. And Tim Morton has a short note on it too.

Continental Realism (Contents list)

I think I have finally managed to get the bulk of Continental Realism (working title, what do people think?) together. It needs some tweaking and also a Preface. There are parts that could be improved and the more I read the more I want to add, but this I am told is all part of the process and I need to let it go at some point. I suppose the book is something of a polemic in defence of the ‘speculative turn’ but with a hint that a necessary ‘division of labour’ may be needed (this idea I got from Peter Gratton) in the future. So I suppose it is kind of a romp through the speculative realist world as I see it. It is likely to be quite short (20,000-25,000 words). I hope to submit it by month’s end. I’ve decided to post up the contents list just to see if it piques people's interest. Of course this and the thesis have meant blogging has been limited, but I hope to be back blogging soon. After I submitting the book I’ll be working solely on phenomenology for the second chapter of my thesis and I might try to do a kind of progression through phenomenology type series just to keep me alive! I do love phenomenology but it is not the most exciting stuff to read sometimes (it depends on mood really). Speculations should be out pretty soon. I can’t imagine it’ll be much longer (few extra surprises in there since last post, but I’ll leave that until it comes out).

Continental Realism

Preface: The Hermeneutics of the Real

1.1. The Ancestral Realm

1.2. The Correlationist Nexus
a. The Transcendentalist Response I: Husserl, Perception, and Adumbrations
b. The Transcendentalist Response II: Kant, Transcendental Subjectivity and Embodiment

1.3. The Thought of the ‘In-Itself’
a. Intellectual Intuition
b. The Transcendentalist Response III: Hägglund, Gabriel, and Žižek
c. The Speculative Response: Gratton and Harman

1.4. Thinking le grand dehors
a. ‘Nature’ and the Out-side
b. Wohin haben wir uns verirrt?

1.5. Hegel without Hope

Conclusion: Phenomenological Realism

Great SR resource

Eric Phetteplace has produced a pretty excellent SR resource collection (different from his SR pathfinder). Looks really professional and detailed.

Raphael Zagury-Orly added for 21st Century Heidegger

We have just added Dr Raphael Zagury-Orly (University of Tel-Aviv and Bezalel School of Fine Arts) to our confirmed speakers list for the 21st Heidegger conference.

Keynote speakers:
Professor Miguel de Beistegui (The University of Warwick)
Prof. Dr. Martin Gessmann (The Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg)

Confirmed speakers:
Professor Dermot Moran (University College Dublin)
Dr François Raffoul (Louisiana State University)
Dr Joseph Cohen ((University College Dublin)
Dr Raphael Zagury-Orly (University of Tel-Aviv and Bezalel School of Fine Arts)
Dr Andrew Haas (University College Dublin)

Speculations Journal Design

So Speculations will be coming out soon (early July I hope) and Thomas Gokey will be blogging about its development. As noted before it will be open access, there will a bunch of possible formats: 'standard html format, a pdf format, an e-reader format, and a print-on-demand format.' I also hope to publish a few old-fashioned (library/ISSN justifying/etc) copies but we'll see how that goes. But Thomas goes into much more detail about how it will appear so do check out his blog.

Contents:

'Science-laden theory: Outlines of an Unsettled Alliance' - Fabio Gironi

'Thinking against Nature: Nature, Ideation, and Realism between Lovecraft and Schelling- - Ben Woodard

'Networkologies: A Manifesto, Section I' - Christopher Vitale

Nomological Disputation: Alain Badiou and Graham Harman on Objects - Nathan Coombs
Response to Nathan Coombs by Graham Harman

'To Exist Is To Change: A Friendly Disagreement With Graham Harman On Why Things Happen' - Michael Austin

Interviews:
Peter Gratton interviews with Jane Bennett, Ian Bogost, Levi Bryant, Paul Ennis (me!), Tim Morton and Graham Harman.

Book Review:

Deleuze/Guattari & Ecology edited by Bernd Herzogenrath - Adrian Ivakhiv