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Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction
Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction brings cinema studies, queer theory, and psychoanalysis into novel configuration around the concept of negative life, a sundering of human and nonhuman relations. Engaging a philosophical and cinematic corpus that rejects the pastoralism of “entanglement” or “enmeshment,” Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay counter ecocritical pieties and cut a new path for theory. They examine films by Julian Pölsler, Kelly Reichardt, Lee Isaac Chung, Mahesh Mathai, Paul Schrader, and others that exemplify the existential contradictions currently intensifying amid the sixth mass extinction. Each case study testifies formally and thematically to negative life as a structural condition of thought and film. Together, the cases reveal the unlivable dimension of life and art, where form, desire, and nonbelonging tarry with the future-oriented promise of ecostudies—where all that lives connects. Negative Life militates against this promise, showing that faith in connection is a dead end.
Jean-Thomas Tremblay, Steven Swarbrick
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Jody Berland
2019
Jody Berland, Virtual Menageries: Animals as Mediators in Network Cultures. From cat videos to corporate logos, digital screens and spaces ...
David Cecchetto
2018
Cecchetto, David, ed. Something Other than Lifedeath—Catalyst: S.D. Chrostowska. Victoria/Seattle: Noxious Sector Press, 2018. 132 pp. With contributions by Louis ...
Randal F. Schnoor
2018
Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor. Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home. The Modern Jewish Experience. Bloomington, IN: Indiana ...
Mark Cauchi
2018
John Caruana and Mark Cauchi, eds. Immanent Frames: Postsecular Cinema between Malick and von Trier. New York, SUNY Press, 2018.
S.D. Chrostowska
2017
S. D. Chrostowska and James D. Ingram, Political Uses of Utopia New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives. New York: Columbia ...
Tony Burke
2017
Tony Burke, ed. Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions: Writing Ancient and Modern Christian Apocrypha. Proceedings of the 2015 York University Christian ...
Tony Burke
2017
Tony Burke. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas in the Syriac Tradition: A Critical Edition and English Translation. Gorgias Eastern Christian ...
Bernard Lightman
2017
Bernard Lightman, Science Museums in Transition, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017.
Michael Herren
2017
Michael Herren. The Anatomy of Myth: The Art of Interpretation from the Presocratics to the Church Fathers. New York: Oxford ...
Gail Vanstone
2017
Brian Winston, Gail Vanstone, Wang Chi, The Act of Documenting: Documentary Film in the 21st Century, Bloomsbury Press, 2017.
David Cecchetto
2017
David Cecchetto, Marc Couroux, Ted Hiebert, and Eldritch Priest (The Occulture). Ludic Dreaming: How To Listen Away From Contemporary Technoculture. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 160 pages.
Andrea Emberly
2016
Tony Burke
2016
Tony Burke and Brent Landau, eds. New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016.
Bernard Lightman
2016
Bernard Lightman, A Companion to the History of Science, Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
David Trotman
2016
A. Diptee and David V. Trotman (eds.) Atlantic Childhoods in Global Contexts, (Routledge, 2016)
David Cecchetto
2016
Phono-Fictions and Other Felt Thoughts (Catalyst: Eldritch Priest), David Cecchetto, ed. USA: Noxious Sector Press (Catalyst Book Series), 2016. 221 pages.