EAN: 9781531501655

WHAT IS EXTINCTION? - JOSHUA SCHUSTER KARTONIER...

Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing
the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Extinction? examines several key moments
that have come to define the terms of extinction over the past two centuries  exploring
instances of animal and human finitude and the cultural forms used to document and interpret
these events. 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.

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