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What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse? A new philosophical field has emerged. “Existential risk” studies any real or hypothetical human extinction event in the near or distant future. This movement examines catastrophes ranging from runaway global warming to nuclear warfare to malevolent artificial intelligence, deploying a curious mix of utilitarian ethics, statistical risk analysis, and, controversially, a transhuman advocacy that would aim to supersede almost all extinction scenarios. The proponents of existential risk thinking, led by Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, have seen their work gain immense popularity, attracting endorsement from Bill Gates and Elon Musk, millions of dollars, and millions of views. Calamity Theory is the first book to examine the rise of this thinking and its failures to acknowledge the ways some communities and lifeways are more at risk than others and what it implies about human extinction.Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
Risk assessment. --- Human beings --- Disasters. --- Extinction. --- Calamities --- Catastrophes --- Curiosities and wonders --- Accidents --- Hazardous geographic environments --- Extinction of human beings --- Human extinction --- Extinction (Biology) --- Analysis, Risk --- Assessment, Risk --- Risk analysis --- Risk evaluation --- Evaluation --- History of philosophy, philosophical traditions
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Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about--and with--insect and arachnid life. The conversations in this two-volume set address the collaborative, multigenerational research that produced early modern natural history and provide new insights into the old question of what it means to be human in a world populated by beasts large and small.Volume 2, Concepts, explores ideas that cut across species, insect and otherwise, both building on and invigorating critical vocabularies developed over nearly two decades of early modern animal studies. The contributors explore topics such as the medical and culinary consumption of insects; extermination campaigns; the auditory and emotive effects of a swarm; insects and politics; and notions of infestation, stinging, and creeping. Throughout, they illuminate how early modern science and literature worked as intersecting systems of knowledge production about the natural world and show definitively how insect life was, and remains, intimately entangled with human life.In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume include Lucinda Cole, Frances E. Dolan, Lowell Duckert, Andrew Fleck, Rebecca Laroche, Jennifer Munroe, Amy L. Tigner, Jessica Lynn Wolfe, Derek Woods, and Julian Yates.
Insects in literature. --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Ben Jonson. --- Edmund Spenser. --- John Donne. --- Thomas Moffett. --- William Shakespeare. --- allegory. --- ant. --- bee. --- bees. --- bioluminescence. --- biopolitics. --- bug. --- butterfly. --- charisma. --- cicada. --- compost. --- consumption. --- creature. --- creeping. --- disease. --- earthworm. --- ecocriticism. --- ecofeminism. --- ecology. --- entomology. --- flea. --- gnat. --- grasshopper. --- habitat. --- hornet. --- insect. --- locomotion. --- locust. --- maggots. --- moth. --- narrative. --- natural history. --- noise. --- observation. --- pest. --- recipes. --- reproduction. --- scale. --- scorpion. --- sexuality. --- silkworm. --- sovereignty. --- spider. --- sting. --- swarm. --- voice. --- wasps. --- water bug. --- worm.
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