The Speculative Turn

Continental philosophy has entered a new period of ferment. The long deconstructionist era was followed with a period dominated by Deleuze, which has in turn evolved into a new situation still difficult to define. However, one common thread running through the new brand of continental positions is a renewed attention to materialist and realist options in philosophy. Among the l...

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Continental philosophy has entered a new period of ferment. The long deconstructionist era was followed with a period dominated by Deleuze, which has in turn evolved into a new situation still difficult to define. However, one common thread running through the new brand of continental positions is a renewed attention to materialist and realist options in philosophy. Among the leaders of the established generation, this new focus takes numerous forms. It might be hard to find many shared positions in the writings of Badiou, DeLanda, Laruelle, Latour, Stengers, and Žižek, but what is missing from their positions is an obsession with the critique of written texts. All of them elaborate a positive ontology, despite the incompatibility of their results. Meanwhile, the new generation of continental thinkers is pushing these trends still further, as seen in currents ranging from transcendental materialism to the London-based speculative realism movement to new revivals of Derrida. As indicated by the title The Speculative Turn, the new currents of continental philosophy depart from the text-centered hermeneutic models of the past and engage in daring speculations about the nature of reality itself. This anthology assembles authors, of several generations and numerous nationalities, who will be at the centre of debate in continental philosophy for decades to come.

Levi R. Bryant is a Professor of Philosophy at Collin College in Frisco, Texas. He is the author of Difference and Givenness: Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence as well as a number of articles on Deleuze, Badiou, and Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Graham Harman is Associate Provost for Research Administration at the American University in Cairo, Egypt....

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Levi R. Bryant is a Professor of Philosophy at Collin College in Frisco, Texas. He is the author of Difference and Givenness: Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence as well as a number of articles on Deleuze, Badiou, and Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Graham Harman is Associate Provost for Research Administration at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. He has published the following books: Tool-Being (2002), Guerrilla Metaphysics (2005), Heidegger Explained (2007), Prince of Networks (2009), Towards Speculative Realism (2010), L'Objet quadruple (2010), and Circus Philosophicus (2010)

Nick Srnicek is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the London School of Economics. He is currently working towards a dissertation on the general dynamics of global political change, specifically focusing on the relations between contentious social movements, civil society organizations and international institutions. He has also published work in Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy and Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy.

1 Towards a Speculative Philosophy 1
Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman
2 Interview 19
Alain Badiou and Ben Woodard
3 On the Undermining of Objects: Grant, Bruno, and Radical Philosophy 21
Graham Harman
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1 Towards a Speculative Philosophy 1
Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman
2 Interview 19
Alain Badiou and Ben Woodard
3 On the Undermining of Objects: Grant, Bruno, and Radical Philosophy 21
Graham Harman
4 Mining Conditions: A Response to Harman 41
Iain Hamilton Grant
5 Concepts and Objects 47
Ray Brassier
6 Does Nature Stay What-it-is?: Dynamics and the Antecendence Criterion 66
Iain Hamilton Grant
7 Against Speculation, or, A Critique of the Critique of Critique:
A Remark on Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude (After Colletti) 84
Alberto Toscano
8 Hume’s Revenge: À Dieu, Meillassoux? 92
Adrian Johnston
9 Radical Atheist Materialism: A Critique of Meillassoux 114
Martin Hägglund
10 Anything is Possible: A Reading of Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude 130
Peter Hallward
11 The Speculative and the Specific: On Hallward and Meillassoux 142
Nathan Brown
12 Capitalism and the Non-Philosophical Subject 164
Nick Srnicek
13 Drafting the Inhuman: Conjectures on Capitalism and Organic Necrocracy 182
Reza Negarestani
14 Is it Still Possible to be a Hegelian Today? 202
Slavoj Žižek
15 Potentiality and Virtuality 224
Quentin Meillassoux, translated by Robin Mackay
16 The Generic as Predicate and Constant: Non-Philosophy and Materialism 237
François Laruelle, translated by Taylor Adkins
17 The Ontic Principle: Outline of an Object-Oriented Ontolog y 261
Levi R. Bryant
18 The Actual Volcano: Whitehead, Harman, and the Problem of Relations 279
Steven Shaviro
19 Response to Shaviro 291
Graham Harman
20 Reflections on Etienne Souriau’s Les différents modes d’existence 304
Bruno Latour, translated by Stephen Muecke
21 Outland Empire: Prolegomena to Speculative Absolutism 334
Gabriel Catren, translated by Taylor Adkins
22 Wondering about Materialism 368
Isabelle Stengers
23 Emergence, Causality and Realism 381
Manuel DeLanda
24 Ontolog y, Biolog y, and History of Affect 393
John Protevi
25 Interview 406
Slavoj Žižek and Ben Woodard
Bibliography 416
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