@article{1451054,
      recid = {1451054},
      author = {Williams, Nina, and Keating, Thomas,},
      title = {Speculative geographies : ethics, technologies, aesthetics  /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xviiii, 304 pages) :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {Posing the question of how speculation could inform  geography, this collection responds with a pluralistic and  expansive range of proposals that include terraformation,  heterotopias, speculative dispositions, speculative  reproduction, nuclear remains, neorural futures, dust, soil  and bodies. A fascinating read that contributes key  insights to speculative theory and practice. --Professor  Jennifer Gabrys, University of Cambridge This book brings  together diverse practices of speculative thinking that  reimagine how we relate to our entangled social, mental,  and environmental ecologies. It examines how speculative  philosophies and concepts are changing geographical  research methods and techniques, whilst also developing how  speculative thinking transforms the way human, non-human,  and more-than-human things are conceptualised in research  practices across the social sciences, arts, and humanities.  Offering the first dedicated compendium of geographical  engagements with speculation and speculative thinking, the  chapters in this edited collection advance debates about  how affective, imperceptible, and infrasensible qualities  of environments might be written about through alternative  registers and ontologies of experience. Organised around  the themes of Ethics, Technologies, and Aesthetics, the  book will appeal to those engaging with architecture, Black  political theory, fiction, cinema, children's geographies,  biotechnologies, philosophy, rural studies, arts practice,  and nuclear waste studies as speculative research practices  appropriate for addressing contemporary ecological  problems. Chapters 1, 3 and 4 are available open access  under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International  License via link.springer.com. Nina Williams is Lecturer in  Cultural Geography at the University of New South Wales  Canberra. Her research explores conceptual innovations in  the fields of nonrepresentational theory, process  philosophy, speculative thinking and post-humanism. In an  effort to bring theory into close relationship with  practice, a central pursuit of Nina's research is to  foreground the role of aesthetics and creative processes as  unique means for interrogating social and cultural life.  Thomas Keating is a researcher in Technology and Social  Change at Linköping University, Sweden. Thomas' research  engages with problems posed by human-technology  relationships. He has published on Gilbert Simondon  (Cultural Geographies), post-humanism (Transactions of the  Institute of British Geographers), and speculative  empiricism with Didier Debaise (Theory, Culture &  Society).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1451054},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0691-6},
}