After the "Speculative Turn": Realism, Philosophy, and Feminism

Recent forms of realism in continental philosophy that are habitually subsumed under the category of "speculative realism," a denomination referring to rather heterogeneous strands of philosophy, bringing together object-oriented ontology (OOO), non-standard philosophy (or non-philosophy), the speculative realist ideas of Quentin Meillassoux and Marxism, have provided grounds for the much needed critique of culturalism in gender theory, and the authority with which post-structuralism has dominated feminist theory for decades. This publication aims to bring forth some of the feminist debates prompted by the so-called "speculative turn," while demonstrating that there has never been a niche of "speculative realist feminism."

Whereas most of the contributions featured in this collection provide a theoretical approach invoking the necessity of foregrounding new forms of realism for a "feminism beyond gender as culture," some of the essays tackle OOO only to invite a feminist critical challenge to its paradigm, while others refer to some extent to non-philosophy or the new materialisms but are not reducible to either of the two. We have invited essays from intellectual milieus outside the Anglo-Saxon academic center, bringing together authors from Serbia, Slovenia, France, Ireland, the UK, and Canada, aiming to promote feminist internationalism (rather than a "generous act of cultural inclusion").

CONTENTS

Katerina Kolozova - Preface: After the "Speculative Turn"
Nina Power - Philosophy, Sexism, Emotion, Rationalism
Katherine Behar - The Other Woman
Anne-Françoise Schmid - Liberer epistemologiquement le feminisme
Patricia Ticineto Clough - Notes for "And They Were Dancing"
Joan Copjec - No: Foucault
Jelisaveta Blagojevic - Thinking WithOut
Marina Grzinic - Rearticulating the Speculative Turn
Frenchy Lunning - The Crush: The Firey Allure of the Jolted Puppet
Nandita Biswas Mellamphy - (W)omen out/of Time: Metis, Medea, Mahakali
Michael O'Rourke - "Girls Welcome!!!": Speculative Realism, Object-Oriented Ontology, and Queer Theory