Speculative annihilationism : the intersection of archaeology and extinction / Matt Rosen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosen, Matt, author.

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Extinction (Biology)--Philosophy.

Extinction (Biology).

Archaeology--Philosophy.

Archaeology.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

99 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Winchester, UK ; Washington, USA : Zero Books, 2019.

Contents:

1 Quasi-Australopithecus

1.1 Archaeological theoretic approaches p. 5

1.2 The resurrection of Australopithecus p. 12

1.3 Empirical extinction p. 15

2 Extinction and Time

2.1 The causal clock p. 19

2.2 An objection considered p. 20

2.3 Heat death p. 21

2.4 Conflicting temporalities and spatialization p. 23

2.5 Radicalizing Heidegger: species as species-towards-extinction p. 26

2.6 Schellingian extinction p. 29

3 Extinction and Materials

3.1 The differentiation of species p. 31

3.2 A dichotomous choice? p. 32

3.3 A relation of subsumption p. 35

4 The Phenomenal/Real Collapse

4.1 Escaping the resurrection p. 38

4.2 Metzinger's "nemocentrism" p. 39

4.3 The phenomenal/real distinction p. 41

4.4 Disintegrating Sellars' "manifest image of man-in-the-world" p. 42

5 Analogy and Assemblages

5.1 Artifacts and embodiments p. 45

5.2 Deleuzo-Guattarian territorializations p. 46

5.3 Epistemic ground, the earthwormic dialectic, and material analogy p. 48

6 Thinking Annihilation

6.1 Thinking the extinction of thought p. 52

6.2 Becoming and extinction p. 56

6.3 What does speculative annihilationism involve? p. 57

6.4 Thought's extinction, capital, and the horizon of thought p. 77

6.5 The unheimlich real: existence without existents p. 80.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1789041473

9781789041477

OCLC:

1049293068

Publisher Number:

99981102511