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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: An Adventure of Thought
Nicholas Gaskill and A. J. Nocek
Part I. Speculation beyond the Bifurcation
1. A Constructivist Reading of Process and Reality
Isabelle Stengers
2. Scientism and the Modern World
Jeffrey A. Bell
3. What Is the Style of Matters of Concern?
Bruno Latour
4. The Technics of Prehension: On the Photography of Nicholas Baier
Nathan Brown
Part II. The Metaphysics of Creativity
5. Whitehead’s Involution of an Outside Chance
Peter Canning
6. Multiplicity and Mysticism: Toward a New Mystagogy of Becoming
Roland Faber
7. The Event and the Occasion: Deleuze, Whitehead, and Creativity
Keith Robinson
8. Whitehead and Schools X, Y, and Z
Graham Harman
9. Whitehead’s Curse?
James Williams
10. Cutting away from Smooth Space: Alfred North Whitehead’s Extensive Continuum in Parametric Software
Luciana Parisi
Part III. Process Ecology
11. Possessive Subjects: A Speculative Interpretation of Nonhumans
Didier Debaise
12. Another Regard
Erin Manning
13. Of “Experiential Togetherness”: Toward a More Robust Empiricism
Steven Meyer
14. The Order of Nature and the Creation of Societies
Michael Halewood
15. Imaginative Chemistry: Synthetic Ecologies and the Construction of Life
A. J. Nocek
Contributors
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