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Offering a critical theory for the critically endangered, Joshua Schuster proposes that different discourses of limits and lastness appear in specific extinction events over time as a response to changing attitudes toward species frailty. Understanding these extinction events also involves examining what happens when the conceptual and cultural forms used to account for species finitude are pressed to their limits as well. Schuster provides close readings of several case studies of extinction that bring together environmental humanities and multispecies methods with media-specific analyses at the terminus of life.
What Is Extinction? delves into the development of last animal photography, the anthropological and psychoanalytic fascination with human origins and ends, the invention of new literary genres of last fictions, the rise of new extreme biopolitics in the Third Reich that attempted to change the meaning of extinction, and the current pursuit of de-extinction technologies. Schuster offers timely interpretations of how definitions and visions of extinction have changed in the past and continue to change in the present.
Offering a critical theory for the critically endangered, Joshua Schuster proposes that different discourses of limits and lastness appear in specific extinction events over time as a response to changing attitudes toward species frailty. Understanding these extinction events also involves examining what happens when the conceptual and cultural forms used to account for species finitude are pressed to their limits as well. Schuster provides close readings of several case studies of extinction that bring together environmental humanities and multispecies methods with media-specific analyses at the terminus of life.
What Is Extinction? delves into the development of last animal photography, the anthropological and psychoanalytic fascination with human origins and ends, the invention of new literary genres of last fictions, the rise of new extreme biopolitics in the Third Reich that attempted to change the meaning of extinction, and the current pursuit of de-extinction technologies. Schuster offers timely interpretations of how definitions and visions of extinction have changed in the past and continue to change in the present.
Introduction | 1
Part I
1 Photographing the Last Animal | 43
2 Indigeneity and Anthropology in Last Worlds | 69
Part II
3 Literary Extinctions and the Existentiality of Reading | 109
4 Concepts of Extinction in the Holocaust | 134
Part III
5 Critical Theory for the Critically Endangered | 167
6 What Is De-Extinction? | 198
Conclusion | 231
Acknowledgments | 247
Notes | 251
Index | 279
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
|---|---|
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781531501655 |
| ISBN-10: | 1531501656 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Schuster, Joshua |
| Hersteller: | Fordham University Press |
| Maße: | 227 x 152 x 19 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Joshua Schuster |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 21.02.2023 |
| Gewicht: | 0,47 kg |
Introduction | 1
Part I
1 Photographing the Last Animal | 43
2 Indigeneity and Anthropology in Last Worlds | 69
Part II
3 Literary Extinctions and the Existentiality of Reading | 109
4 Concepts of Extinction in the Holocaust | 134
Part III
5 Critical Theory for the Critically Endangered | 167
6 What Is De-Extinction? | 198
Conclusion | 231
Acknowledgments | 247
Notes | 251
Index | 279
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
|---|---|
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781531501655 |
| ISBN-10: | 1531501656 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Schuster, Joshua |
| Hersteller: | Fordham University Press |
| Maße: | 227 x 152 x 19 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Joshua Schuster |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 21.02.2023 |
| Gewicht: | 0,47 kg |
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