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This book contains the proceedings from Weaponising Speculation, a two-day conference and exhibition that took place in Dublin in March 2013. Weaponising Speculation was organised by D.U.S.T. (Dublin Unit for Speculative Thought) and aimed to be an exploration of the various expressions of DIY theory operative in the elsewheres, the shafts and tunnels of the para-academy. The topics covered all come under the welcoming embrace of speculation, spanning a broad range: from art, philosophy, nature, fiction, and computation to spiders, culinary cosmology, and Oscar the Grouch. The book itself aims to be more than just a collection of essays and catalogue of artworks, but also a documentation of the event as a whole. An object that both those present at the event and those who missed it would want to own — bringing something new to both sets of readers

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half-Title Page, Copyright, Title Page, Dedication
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  1. Contents
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  1. Preface
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  1. Conference
  1. Continental Realism and Computation: Turing’s Propaganda
  2. pp. 7-16
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  1. A Seductive Union: Speculative Realism and Contemporary Art
  2. pp. 17-20
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  1. Objects, Actors and Sites of Contingency
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  1. Taken from/put in Oscars Bin
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  1. How to make space-time and influence people
  2. pp. 37-42
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  1. ‘[os mentis] mouth to mouth’ with Nicola Masciandaro
  2. pp. 43-60
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  1. Sweet Dreams Are Made of This: Speculation
  2. pp. 61-68
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  1. All that is liquid melts into solid
  2. pp. 68-74
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  1. Mutant – Infiltration of the Hallucinated Mountain
  2. pp. 75-84
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  1. The fossils of Sensation
  2. pp. 85-90
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  1. restless tongues expending into rest
  2. pp. 91-92
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  1. House of Sheaves: The Asymptotic Horror of Nested Nature
  2. pp. 93-98
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  1. Spider Universe: Weaponising Phobia in Bataille, Nietzsche, Spinoza and Deleuze
  2. pp. 99-106
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 107-114
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  1. Exhibition
  1. John Ryan
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  1. Rob Murphy
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  1. Alice Rekab
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  1. Andy Weir
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  1. Teresa Gillespie
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  1. Alan Boardman
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  1. Ciara McMahon
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  1. Back Cover
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  1. Publication Data
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