{"product_id":"what-is-extinction-a-natural-and-cultural-history-of-last-animals-paperback","title":"What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoshua Schuster\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Extinction?\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOffering 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Is Extinction?\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Schuster\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of English and core faculty member of the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e The Ecology of Modernism: American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e and co-author of \u003ci\u003eCalamity Theory: Three Critiques of Existential Risk\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 21, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648513925222,"sku":"9781531501655","price":65.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/MGhPY1hub2RzNHpXMmpuYlhtNklGUT09.webp?v=1779515261","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/what-is-extinction-a-natural-and-cultural-history-of-last-animals-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}