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02753aam a2200409 i 4500 001 A2D8EEFA004111EEBB5E2E0C29ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230601010039 008 220210t20232023nyua b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2023285280 020 $a 1531501648 020 $a 9781531501648 020 $a 1531501656 020 $a 9781531501655 035 $a (OCoLC)1296117626 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d YDX $d IBI $d YDX $d CDX $d IBI $d DLC $d SILO 050 4 $a QH78 $b .S38 2023 082 04 $a 576.8/409 $2 23/eng/20230328 100 1 $a Schuster, Joshua, $e author. 245 10 $a What is extinction? : $b a natural and cultural history of last animals / $c Joshua Schuster. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Fordham University Press, $c 2023 300 $a 291 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Photographing the last animal -- Indigeneity and anthropology in last worlds -- Literary extinctions and the existentiality of reading -- Concepts of extinction in the holocaust -- Critical theory for the critically endangered -- What is de-extinction? 520 $a "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." -- $c Back cover. 650 0 $a Extinction (Biology) $x History. 650 0 $a Extinction (Biology) $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Nature $x Effect of human beings on. 650 7 $a Extinction (Biology) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00918969 650 7 $a Nature $x Effect of human beings on. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034564 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20231021032027.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20230601010115.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A2D8EEFA004111EEBB5E2E0C29ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search