Apologies for cross-posting
Dear All,
I wanted to let you know about my new short book titled /The End of Man:
A Feminist Counterapocalypse/, which has just come out in the University
of Minnesota Press’s Forerunners series – in paper, e-format and as a
free open access version. It may be of interest to the readers of this
list as it combines an academic text with a photo-film, with a view to
attempting to practice a more visual, embedded and multi-modal way of
thinking about the planetary issues of today.
Best, Joanna
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Description
Joanna Zylinska’s/The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse/ offers
an ironic take on various contemporary eco-political crises, from the
climate catastrophe and the threats to the human species posed by
artificial intelligence through to the widespread rise in populism. In
response, the author outlines an ethical vision of a feminist
counterapocalypse, which challenges many of the proposed solutions to
those crises, in their masculinist and technicist guises. The photo-film
/Exit Man /included with the book showcases a “local museum of the
Anthropocene” of the author’s making, with a view to envisaging a
different future for humanity—and a different mode of scholarly
engagement. The project is framed by an overarching question: If
unbridled progress is no longer an option, what kinds of coexistences
and collaborations do we create in its aftermath?
The publishers have made the online version available open access on
their Manifold platform: https://manifold.umn.edu/project/the-end-of-man/
To support the University of Minnesota Press and order a paper or
electronic version for your library, please here:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-end-of-man
The /Exit Man/ film: https://vimeo.com/203887003
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Professor Joanna Zylinska
Co-Head of Department of Media and Communications
Goldsmiths, University of London
http://www.joannazylinska.net
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