Introduction
Speculative research and the politics of alternatives / Martin Savransky, Alex Wilkie & Marsha Rosengarten
Speculative propositions
The wager of an unfinished present : notes on speculative pragmatism / Martin Savransky
Speculative research, temporality and politics / Rosalyn Diprose
Situated speculation as a constraint on thought / Michael Halewood
Speculative lures
Pluralities of action, a lure for speculative thought / Marsha Rosengarten
Doing speculation to curtail speculation / Alex Wilkie & Mike Michael
Retrocasting : speculating about the origins of money / Joe Deville
Speculative techniques
Sociology's archive : mass-observation as a site of speculative research / Lisa Adkins
Developing speculative methods to explore speculative shipping : mail art, futurity and empiricism / Rebecca Coleman
Creating idiotic speculators : disaster cosmopolitics in the sandbox / Michael Guggenheim, Bernd Kräftner & Judith Kröll
"Too sweet to kill" : a contribution to the art of cosmopolitics / Michael Schillmeier & Yvonne Lee Schultz
Speculative implications
On Isabelle Stengers' "cosmopolitics" : a speculative adventure / Vikki Bell
Aesthetic experience, speculative thought, and civilized life / Michael L. Thomas
The lure of the possible : on the function of speculative / Didier Debaise
Afterword
Postscript / Monica Greco.