Chapter 1: Cultures of Speculation—Histories of Speculation

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1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Practices of Speculation 7
4. Chapter 1: Cultures of Speculation—Histories of Speculation 31
5. Modeling: Speculating with Data
6. Chapter 2: The Working Planetologist 51
7. Chapter 3: The Rule of Productivity and the Fear of Transgression 77
8. Chapter 4: Lagging Realities 97
9. Embodiment: Speculating with Matter
10. Chapter 5: “La vie impossible” 119
11. Chapter 6: Spores of Speculation 145
12. Chapter 7: Enacting Speculation 167
13. Figuration: Speculating with Fiction
14. Chapter 8: Scale and Speculative Futures in Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker and Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312 191
15. Chapter 9: The Lifecycle of Software Engineers 209
16. Chapter 10: Uncertainty between Image and Text in Ben Templesmith’s Singularity 7 221
17. Chapter 11: This World Which Is Not One 243
18. List of Figures 275
19. Biographical Notes 277