Human beings and normative orders: a review of Lorraine Daston’s Against Nature

Introduction to Special Issue: Staying with Speculation: Natures, Futures, Politics

“…Joe Deville's (Deville, 2021) response to Shawn Bodden and Jen Ross's 'Speculating with Glitches: Keeping the Future Moving' (Bodden & Ross, 2021) brings the idea of 'glitches' right up to date, with a discussion on Covid-19 as a 'glitch' in the system, but which system: the tightly coupled global systems or the modern word built upon human-centred systems. Paul Cureton (Cureton, 2021) in his reply to Anna Jackman and Maximillian Jablonowski's 'Investment in the Imaginary' (Jackman & Jablonowski, 2021), continues the discussion of technology and its place or not, in building a better future. To 'build back better' we need to shift our collective critical capabilities to speculating on what kind of relationship we want to have on a personal, communal and planetarian scale.…”