| Title | Politics and Speculative Realism |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Levi R. Bryant (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0032.1.04 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/speculations-4-speculative-realism/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Copyright | Bryant, Levi R. |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2013-06-05 |
| Long abstract | Since its birth in 2007, speculative realism (SR) has generated a great deal of controversy in journals, the theory blogosphere, and at conferences. One would search in vain for a unified “speculative realist” position or doctrine. The four original speculative realists who coined the term—Ray Brassier, Gra-ham Harman, Iain Hamilton Grant, and Quentin Meillassoux—argue for very different ontologies and epistemologies, opposed to one another in a number of respects. If there is anything that unites their positions, it is 1) a defense of some variant of realism or materialism, and 2) a critique of correla-tionism. First coined by Meillassoux, correlationism is the thesis that we can only ever speak of being as a correlate of the subject and never the world and subject apart from one another.2 Beyond that, the sort of realism (or materialism) each of these think-ers defends and how they critique correlationism diverges quite substantially. |
| Page range | pp. 15–21 |
| Print length | 7 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |