After Extinction

Richard Grusin

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781452956312
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Critical Theory

A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next

What comes after extinction? Including both prominent and unusual voices in current debates around the Anthropocene, this collection asks authors from diverse backgrounds to address this question. After Extinction looks at the future of humans and nonhumans, exploring how the scale of risk posed by extinction has changed in light of the accelerated networks of the twenty-first century. The collection considers extinction as a cultural, artistic, and media event as well as a biological one. The authors treat extinction in relation to a variety of topics, including disability, human exceptionalism, science-fiction understandings of time and posthistory, photography, the contemporary ecological crisis, the California Condor, systemic racism, Native American traditions, and capitalism.

From discussions of the anticipated sixth extinction to the status of writing, theory, and philosophy after extinction, the contributions of this volume are insightful and innovative, timely and thought provoking.  

Contributors: Daryl Baldwin, Miami U; Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State U; William E. Connolly, Johns Hopkins U; Ashley Dawson, CUNY Graduate Center; Joseph Masco, U of Chicago; Nicholas Mirzoeff, New York U; Margaret Noodin, U of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; Jussi Parikka, U of Southampton; Bernard C. Perley, U of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; Cary Wolfe, Rice U; Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmiths, U of London.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Extinction Events and Entangled Humanism
• 2. Planetary Memories
• 3. Photography after Extinction
• 4. The Six Extinctions
• 5. Condors at the End of the World
• 6. It’s Not the Anthropocene, It’s the White Supremacy Scene
• 7. Lives Worth Living
• 8. Biocapitalism and
• 9. Surviving the Sixth Extinction
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Index