The hypothetical wall on the Mexican border has not even been concretely described — "impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful," "great, great," and anywhere from thirty to fifty-five feet high — but must surely count as the most influential speculative object of the twenty-first century.
And when her view is brought to bear on the Maya show, a quirky treasures compendium becomes something else: a speculative study, through objects, of how political power developed in that culture and what it said about the Mayan's approach to the world.
Imagine that you have a bunch of farmers, whose land is for some reason the object of a speculative bubble.
For Cavendish, the "sensitive" corporeal motions of a body track the surface features of the object that we are perceiving, and the "rational" motions produce a speculative image of the features of the object that we do not sense.
Astronomy is a speculative science that has as its object the magnitude of celestial bodies and the distance between them (DOS 72), whereas optics is defined as the speculative science that has as its object the diverse modes of vision, focusing on the nature of visual rays.
Predictably, the mystery object invited speculation — at least among those with a speculative bent — that it could be artificial.
Although he shares Hegel's emphasis on a speculative identity between thought and being, between subject and object, and between reason and reality, Adorno denies that this identity has been achieved in a positive fashion.
A Speculative Dictionary.
This study is not a speculative exercise.
Iraq is a speculative war.
