[spectre] The End of Man: new book (open access) + photo-film

[Joanna Zylinska]

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

-- 
Professor Joanna Zylinska
Co-Head of Department of Media and Communications
Goldsmiths, University of London

http://www.joannazylinska.net


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