Object-Orientated Maternalities

(or mothers who hoard)

Speculative Realism Pathfinder

Actor-Network Theory (Bruno Latour, Michel Callon); Assemblage Theory (Manuel DeLanda); Dark Vitalism (Ben Woodard); Eliminative Materialism (Patricia Churchland, Paul Churchland); Methodological Naturalism (Ray Brassier); Neo-Vitalism (Iain Hamilton Grant); Object-Oriented Ontology/Philosophy (Graham Harman, Levi Bryant); Onticology (Levi Bryant); Revisionary Naturalism (Ray Brassier); Spectral Realism (Michael Austin); Speculative Materialism (Quentin Meillassoux); Speculative Realism (Ray Brassier, although he has now distanced himself from this term); Transcendental Materialism (Iain Hamilton Grant); Transcendental Nihilism (Ray Brassier); and Transcendental Realism (Ray Brassier, Roy Bhaskar). (Speculative Realism Pathfinder, 2013)

On a sunny Tuesday morning on 4 June in the grate over the storm drain to the Chesapeake Bay in front of Sam’s Bagels on Cold Spring Lane in Baltimore, there was:one large men’s black plastic work gloveone dense mat of oak pollenone unblemished dead ratone white plastic bottle capone smooth stick of wood. …stuff exhibited its thing-power: it issued a call, even if I did not quite understand what it was as saying. (Bennett, 2010a: 4).