Speculative Geographies

Nina Williams is Lecturer in Cultural Geography at UNSW Canberra, Australia. Nina’s research explores conceptual innovations in the fields of nonrepresentational theory, process philosophy speculative thinking and post-humanism. A central pursuit in Nina’s research is to amplify aesthetics and creativity as salient modes of sensing and engaging geographic work.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).

• 1.      From Abstract Thinking to Thinking Abstractions: Introducing Speculative Geographies by Nina Williams and Thomas Keating.- 2.      Redreaming the Human and the Ethics of Terraformation by Jayna Brown.- 3.      Contemporary Urban Heterotopias: from Fiction to Reality by Olivier Costaftis.- 4.      Speculations on Time and Space: or Zeno’s Last Stand by Marcus A. Doel and David B. Clarke.- 5.      Passionate Speculations | Speculative Passions by Joe Gerlach.- 6.      Three Speculative Dispositions after William James: Towards a concept of Pre-cursive faith by Carlota de La Herrán Iriarte.- 7.      Tearing through the curtain: imagining new horizons of possibility through deterritorialization by Kieran Cutting.- 8.      Speculative Reproduction by Maria Fannin.- 9.      NeoRural Futures – speculative modes of thinking, sensing, and creating sustainable futures by Vera Fearns.- 10.  Foley and Fabulation: the production of screams, sound, and subjectivity in Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio by Tara Elisabeth Jeyasingh.- 11.  Nuclear Remains: for a speculative empirical approach by Thomas Keating.- 12.  Speculating with, and after, plastics and childhoods by Peter Kraftl.- 13.  Against the Cynicism of Common Sense: Guattari and the micropolitics of expression by George Burdon.- 14.  The ecosophic act of feeling: Poetry, animism and speculative thought by Oliver Dawson.- 15.  Flights of Fancy: speculative taxidermy as pedagogical practice by Merle Patchett.- 16.  Becoming Listening Bodies by David Rousell, Michael Gallagher, Mark. P Wright.- 17.  Dust and soil: speculative approaches to microecological sensing Rachael Wakefield-Rann & Thomas Lee.- 18. Afterword: Speculative Earth by Martin Savransky.

“Speculative Geographies is a powerful appeal to new kinds of earth-writing. It is a timely … edited collection exploring the growing influence of speculative theory in geography, as well as the under-acknowledged importance of geography in speculative theory. … the volume is a landmark contribution to this emerging field. … Speculative Geographies will be a key touchstone for contemporary thinking on the philosophies, ethics, and methods of geographical practice.” (Julian Brigstocke, Social & Cultural Geography, June 10, 2024)