This essay covers two main topics: the role of the “double vi-sion” of the sight/nonsight of blinking in selected fiction of Neil Gaiman and China Miéville, and an examination of the role of blindness and sight surrounding “Molyneux’s question.” In Gaiman’s work “double vision” functions as a synchronic representation of diachronic events. This representation is important because it makes fleeting change visible. However, China Miéville’s novel Perdido Street Station provides an im-plicit critique of this “double-vision” by re-locating moments of movement within the experience Gaiman describes. The importance of the role of blinking in a discussion of vision and the blind brings forth a question of the ability to see dark-ness itself. While a number of historical and contemporary thinkers are engaged with in this trajectory, it is the burgeon-ing field of speculative realism (Latour; Meillassoux; Harman) that provides a lodestone. It is here that the immanence of the thought of Badiou (but also Deleuze, strongly brought forth in DeLanda) is centralized, meaning the manner in which the new arises from what already is, rather than from any sort of transcendental perspective. This can be seen, for example, in Quentin Meillassoux’s positing of the question of ancestrality:if all knowledge is based on the observer (relativism), then how can we know that the earth is 4.5 billion years old, when there were no observes on the earth to observe it for much of that time? The answer comes about through a new under-standing of the object which exists before givenness which is developed through the language of mathematics and science, although this perspective will also be seen in the scientific at-tunement of Nietzsche and others. Thus, it can be argued that the relational or relativistic position of much cultural theory and continental philosophy should be augmented if not re-placed by a theory of the object in which it will be seen that a development of a representation of the lack of relation between a subject and object (Harman’s dormant objects) can be the locus of where a more fundamental understanding of such a relation is to be found.