ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. The book addresses in different ways, the question of how we might cultivate a speculative sensibility in our engagements with the empirical, and thereby also foster 'deep empiricism' in cultural and social research. If this, on the one hand, is the challenge involved in speculative research, taking the risk of such an adventure, on the other hand, cannot mean throwing all caution to the wind. A different set of risks concerns the probability that this adventure may itself fare badly in a variety of ways, such that, as we craft propositions to summon the (im)possible, we must also strive to take care of the possible. The book entails developing a mode of paying attention that might allow us to feel the latent (im)possibilities in propositions, in modes or life and practice, that have 'fared badly, thrown into the dustheap, neglected'.
