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What Is Extinction? - A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals (Paperback) Loot Price: R723
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What Is Extinction? - A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals (Paperback): Joshua Schuster

What Is Extinction? - A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals (Paperback)

Joshua Schuster

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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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Imprint: Fordham University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2023
Authors: Joshua Schuster
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-1-5315-0165-5
Categories: Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > General
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > Conservation of wildlife & habitats > Endangered species & extinction of species
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LSN: 1-5315-0165-6
Barcode: 9781531501655

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