"Rather than a "logical assertion," Whitehead described a proposition as a "lure for feeling" for a collectivity to come. The unique contributions in Propositions in the Making articulate the newest reaches of Whiteheadian propositions for a postmodern world"--.

• Cover
• Propositions in the Making
• Series page
• Propositions in the Making: Experiments in a Whiteheadian Laboratory
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• Editors Preamble
• The Making of Propositions
  • Chapter 1
  • For a Whiteheadian Laboratory
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
• Thinking Propositions
  • Chapter 2
  • Knowing Whitehead?
    • Knowledge, Nature, and Societies
    • Nature, Society, and the Tuning of Musical Instruments
    • Alzheimer’s Disease and Whitehead’s Concept of the Soul
    • A Very Brief Conclusion—A Style of (Pragmatic) Thought
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
  • Chapter 3
  • Space, Time, and the Deity of Peace
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
  • Chapter 4
  • Designing Propositions
    • An Incomplete History of Design Speculation
    • “A Troubled Adolescence”42
    • Situating Speculation
    • Speculative Design Beyond Professionalism
    • Conclusion: Prolegomena to Propositional Media for Design
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
  • Chapter 5
  • An Internet of Actual Occasions
    • A Speculative Pragmatic Proposition—An Internet of Actual Occasions
    • An Internet of Actual Occasions—Schematics
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
  • Chapter 6
  • Thinking with Whitehead about Existential Risk
    • The Becoming of Existential Risks
    • Techno-scientific Bias and Non-scientific Resources: Propositions
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
  • Chapter 7
  • Witness at the Slaughterhouse
    • Conflicting Propositions
    • To Witness Multiple Expressions
    • Depending on the Distasteful
    • The Art and Education of Witness
    • Last Thoughts
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
  • Chapter 8
  • Communities Keep the Dream Alive as Proposition?
    • Thinking Alongside Social Movements and Activist Communities
    • Risks to Communities as Locations of Hope
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
  • Chapter 9
  • Geology Not Chronology
    • To Describe the Thing Made and the Act of Its Making
    • Movements Taken as Gestures
    • A Discovery Preceding Its Subject
    • Unlikely Stability
    • Inclusion as Combination
    • The Name That Opens a Future
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
• Experimenting with Propositions
  • Chapter 10
  • Under Construction
    • Part Two: The Laboratory: How Do We Make Ourselves a Proposition?
    • Part Three: Being on Stage: Becoming a Proposition? 7
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
  • Chapter 11
  • Choreographic Propositions
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Contributors