@article{1476919,
      recid = {1476919},
      author = {Schuster, Joshua, },
      title = {What Is Extinction? : A Natural and Cultural History of  Last Animals /},
      pages = {1 online resource (304 p.) :},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1476919},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9781531501679},
}