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Politics and Speculative Realism
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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.
Title: Politics and Speculative Realism
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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.
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