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Algae Mask: Multidisciplinary exploration on material speculation
Technoetic Arts, 2020We live in a time where masks are rewriting wearable protocol. It is critical to understand entwining narratives around masks from the notion of health and safety to a wider discourse between the masked and the mask, including opportunistic capitalism and climatic implications. How about a mask that breathes, that is made by organic raw materials?
Kwan Queenie Li, Michelle Jingmin Lai
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Cessation and Contingency in Meillassoux’s Speculative Materialism
Philosophy Today, 2022This article analyzes Quentin Meillassoux’s concept of cessation. First, the article argues that this concept plays a decisive role in Meillassouxian philosophy. Second, by taking into consideration medieval and early modern debates on annihilation, it critically examines the conclusions elaborated in After Finitude.
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In Defence of Speculative Materialism
Historical Materialism, 2019Abstract Ernst Bloch’s recourse to speculative philosophy has guaranteed him the position of a perpetual outsider in the history of Western Marxism. When Jürgen Habermas described Bloch’s philosophy in 1960 as a ‘speculative materialism’, it was to denounce him for crossing the boundaries of critical thought set down as much by Kant’s Critique of Pure ...
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Carbon nitride and other speculative superhard materials
Materials Chemistry and Physics, 1996Abstract In 1984, the author predicted in an unpublished patent disclosure letter at the Diamond Technology Center of Norton Company that C3N4 may be harder than diamond, the hardest material known. According to this disclosure, C3N4 may exist with two phases (α and β) that are isostructural to corresponding phases of Si3N4.
Sung, Chienmin, Sung, Michael
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Material Aware : A Speculative Kitchen Quartet
2020As we go about our lives, seldom do we stop to think meaningfully about the materials that surround us. It is not often that we question the origins of our countertops or flooring, especially in a way that critically assesses how their production and consumption shape our broader lives, spaces, landscapes, politics and rituals.The origin stories of ...
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More things: Horror, materialism and speculative weirdism
Horror Studies, 2012Exploring links between speculative materialist philosophy and the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, this article tracks how theories of horror have been defined, developed and transformed in relation to literary and philosophical notions of the ‘Thing’. Moving from Kantian ideas of ‘noumenon’ to Gothic Things and from post-structuralist engagements with ...
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Material Ecocriticism and Sylvan Agency in Speculative Fiction
2023Material Ecocriticism and Sylvan Agency in Speculative Fiction: The Forests of the World links the examination of fictional forests and arboreal characters of speculative fiction with the literary approach of material ecocriticism and a conceptualization of a sylvan agency.
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Anticipating New Materialisms Through Schelling’s Speculative Physics
2019At the turn of the 19th century, theories of nature were fiercely debated. These debates emerged from a wider dispute between formalist theories of matter such as Newton’s and dynamic theories of matter inspired by Spinoza. In the midst of this debate, German philosopher Friedrich Schelling composed a series of texts under the banner of ...
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Matter’s Life: Speculative Biodesign Practices Toward a New Materialism
The contribution investigates the theme of new materiality through the interference between two approaches: one theoretical and critical, the second one analytical and cartographic. The intertwining of these two perspectives enables us to recognize and comprehend the genesis of a novel approach to shaping matter.Scarpitti Chiara, Bianco Annarita
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