Dr. Armen Avanessian teaches at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and is co-author of Speculative Drawing (Sternberg Press, 2014) and Present Tense (Bloomsbury, 2015).
Dr. Suhail Malik is Reader in Critical Studies in the Department of Art, Goldsmiths, London, UK.

Genealogies of Speculation looks to break the impasse between the innovations of speculative thought and the dominant strands of 20th century anti-foundationalist philosophy. Challenging emerging paradigms of philosophical history, this text re-evaluates different theoretical and political traditions such as feminism, literary theory, social geography and political theory after the speculative turn in philosophy. With contributions from leading writers in contemporary thought this book is a crucial resource for studying cultural and art-theory and continental philosophy.

Acknowledgements
Contributor Biographies
Armen Avanessian and Suhail Malik - Introduction: Speculative Genealogies
GENEALOGY
1. Steven Shaviro - Foreign Territory: The Promises and Perils of Speculative Realism
2. Adrian Johnston - Reflections of a Rotten Nature: Hegel, Lacan and Material Negativity
3. Levi R. Bryant - For a Realist Systems Theory: Luhmann, the Correlationist Controversy and Materiality
4. Sjoerd van Tuinen -Deleuze: Speculative and Practical Philosophy
5. Quentin Meillassoux - Iteration, Reiteration, Repetition: A Speculative Materialist Analysis of the Sign Devoid of Meaning
GENEALOGY
1. Steven Shaviro - Foreign Territory: The Promises and Perils of Speculative Realism
2. Adrian Johnston - Reflections of a Rotten Nature: Hegel, Lacan and Material Negativity
3. Levi R. Bryant - For a Realist Systems Theory: Luhmann, the Correlationist Controversy and Materiality
4. Sjoerd van Tuinen -Deleuze: Speculative and Practical Philosophy

LANGUAGES OF SPECULATION
5. Quentin Meillassoux - Iteration, Reiteration, Repetition: A Speculative Materialist Analysis of the Sign Devoid of Meaning
6. Armen Avanessian - Language Ontology
7. Arne De Boever - The Realist Novel and 'the Great Outdoors': Towards a Literary-Speculative Realism
8. Suhail Malik - Materialist Reason and its Languages. Part One: Absolute Reason, Absolute Deconstruction
SCIENCE
9. Nathan Coombs - Underlabouring for Science: Althusser, Brassier, Bhaskar
10. Dorothea Olkowski - Formalism, Materialism and Consciousness
11. Myra J. Hird and Kathryn Yusoff - Subtending Relations: Bacteria, Geology and the Possible
Index