This talk will be held in English!
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On Nonadaptation and Realizability
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Speculative practices not only hinge on thinking that which is not immediately present or given, more crucially, they are contingent on reframing problems. Because what is given is conditioned by frames of reference that orient thought and activity in a certain way, speculation can be seen as a movement of nonadaptation from the frameworks of given problems. As such, the agency of speculation is bound to the construction of novel problem spaces, rather than a mere projection of the present upon a future state (as with financial speculation). The question is, how are we to distinguish between trivial and consequential forms of speculation, and upon what grounds can we justify the invention of new referential frameworks? More than an arbitrary exercise of imagination, speculation demands grappling with the relation between possibility and actuality, where actuality does not overdetermine possibility, but neither is everything possible, thereby utterly discounting actuality. We will look at the productive friction between possibility and actuality through the premise of realizable possibility, as a way to introduce a mode of practical concreteness to speculation. +
Patricia Reed is an artist, writer and designer based in Berlin. Her work can be found here: https://aestheticmanagement.com/ +
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Diagram from "Site as Procedure as Interaction" by Anil Bawa-Cavia and Patricia Reed, in Construction Site for Possible Worlds (2020) -
Patricia Reed, Diagram from “Orientation in a Big World: On the Necessity of Horizonless Perspectives” in e-flux Journal (2019) -
Patricia Reed, Diagram from “The End of a World and its Pedagogies” in Making & Breaking (2021)
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