The extinction of extinction
In: Journal of social and evolutionary systems: JSES, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 501-502
ISSN: 1061-7361
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In: Journal of social and evolutionary systems: JSES, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 501-502
ISSN: 1061-7361
In: Mathematical population studies: an international journal of mathematical demography, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 175-176
ISSN: 1547-724X
In: Philosophy & technology, Band 30, Heft 4, S. 427-441
ISSN: 2210-5441
In: Probation journal: the journal of community and criminal justice, Band 40, Heft 2, S. 116-117
ISSN: 1741-3079
In: Women's studies: an interdisciplinary journal, Band 50, Heft 8, S. 837-842
ISSN: 1547-7045
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w31952
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In: Cultural politics: an international journal ; exploring cultural and political power across the globe, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 333-352
ISSN: 1751-7435
Abstract
This essay explores the artist Gregory Chatonsky's development of a new type of image—the extinction image. Emerging as a by-product of new technologies such as deep learning and neural nets, this nonoperative image is typified by a painstaking attempt to come to grips with the current threat of human extinction. It arises as a symptom of numerous crises endemic to the Anthropocene, providing a speculative tool for planetary thinking to develop alternatives in and through what has been called postcinema by scholars such as Steve Shaviro and Shane Denson. For Chatonsky, the Earth itself must now be imagined as a disarticulate user of postcinematic media, producing images that display a stunning indifference to the presence or absence of the human species. Close examination of Chatonsky's work will reveal a radical ecopolitics defined by a concern for what Alexander Galloway has called whatever being. Urging us to think carefully about the planetary emergency presented by climate change and geopolitical unrest, the extinction image serves as a reminder that the future of life on Earth is not a foregone conclusion.
In: Multitudes, Band 75, Heft 2, S. 30-37
ISSN: 1777-5841
In: The Oxford literary review: OLR ; critical analyses of literary, philosophical political and psychoanalytic theory, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 107-126
ISSN: 1757-1634
This essay examines certain intersections between writing and extinction through an eco-deconstructive account of the psychoanalysis of water. Jacques Derrida has often drawn attention to the interplay between the sound 'O,' and 'eau,' in Maurice Blanchot's own proper name, as well as in his novels, récits and theoretical works; both the zero-degree of organic excitation towards which the death drive aims and the question of water. Sandor Ferenczi's notion of thalassal regression suggests that the desire to return to the tranquility of the maternal womb parallels a response to a traumatic prehistoric extinction event undergone by organic life once forced to abandon its aquatic existence. Through Gaston Bachelard's Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter, however, one can double the imaginary of water along the axes of a personal death organic life defers and delays, and an impersonal extinction it cannot. Derrida's unpublished 1977 seminar on Blanchot's 1941 novel Thomas the Obscure, however, allows us to imagine an exteriority to extinction, the possibility
In: Disarmament forum: the new security debate = Forum du désarmement, Heft 3, S. 1-100
ISSN: 1020-7287
Discusses historical basis for a standing UN armed force, effectiveness of burden sharing and regional efforts, verification and monitoring of peace accords, managing civil-military relations in humanitarian interventions, and possible privatization of peacekeeping operations; 5 articles. Text in both English and French. Parallel title: Maintien de la paix: évolution ou extinction?
In: Journal of peace research, Band 19, Heft 4, S. 287-300
ISSN: 1460-3578
The idea that global nuclear war could kill most or all of the world's population is critically examined and found to have little or no scientific basis. A number of possible reasons for beliefs about nuclear extinction are presented, including exaggeration to justify inaction, fear of death, exaggeration to stimulate action, the idea that planning is defeatist, exaggeration to justify concern, white western orientation, the pattern of day-to-day life, and reformist political analysis. Some of the ways in which these factors inhibit a full political analysis and practice by the peace movement are indicated. Prevalent ideas about the irrationality and short duration of nuclear war and of the unlikelihood of limited nuclear war are also briefly examined.
In: Africa research bulletin. Political, social and cultural series, Band 43, Heft 12
ISSN: 1467-825X
In: Africa research bulletin. Political, social and cultural series, Band 43, Heft 12, S. 16914A
ISSN: 0001-9844