Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-vii

Notes on Contributors

pp viii-ix

Acknowledgements

pp x-x

Introduction

pp 1-6

Part 1 - Scaffolding

pp 7-8

Foreword to Part 1

pp 9-12

1 - Speculating with Glitches: Keeping the Future Moving

pp 13-35

2 - Investments in the Imaginary: Commercial Drone Speculations and Relations

pp 36-65

3 - Dystopias for Discourse: The Role of the Artist in a Rapidly Reconfiguring City

pp 66-79

4 - New Images of Thought: On Two Kinds of Speculative Realism

pp 80-100

Part 2 - More-than-Human Worlds

pp 101-102

Foreword to Part 2

pp 103-106

5 - Speculative Listening: Melting Sea Ice and New Methods of Listening with the Planet

pp 107-124

6 - It Matters What Designs Design Designs: Speculations on Multispecies Worlding

pp 125-144

7 - Edible Speculations: Designing Everyday Oracles for Food Futures

pp 145-168

Part 3 - Speculative Ethics

pp 169-170

Foreword to Part 3

pp 171-174

8 - Beyond Speculation: Using Speculative Methods to Surface Ethics and Positionality in Design Practice and Pedagogy

pp 175-199

9 - Touring the Carbon Ruins: Towards an Ethics of Speculative Decarbonisation

pp 200-223

10 - Science Fiction, Reconfigured Social Theory and the Anthropocene Age: Exploring and Thinking about Planetary Futures through Fictional Imaginaries

pp 224-249

The Debate

pp 250-255

Index

pp 256-265