SPECULATIVE – RISK – BEAUTY

Checklist for Conducting Speculative Research
Perhaps there is a flicker of heat
for personal use only
Find a working title for your speculation and write it down
Contemplate the question on whose behalf you are talking
Find a subtitle
Postpone 3
Escape, for a moment, the norms to which your experiences, isolated by logical, moral, empiricist, religious and other stakes that privilege them, are subject
Cite source of 5
Postpone 6
Say: My Brethren, by the bowels of Christ I beseech you, bethink that you may be mistaken!
Cite source of 8
Postpone 9
You will need an idiot for following 5
Try it with the cat
Remove your brakes

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Extract of text by Bernd Kräftner as published in C.A.T.: Catastrophic Animals on Terra – A guidebook to life elsewhere. This book can be purchased from the Art & Science office. Please contact us on artscience@uni-ak.ac.at.