Extremity and the Future: Reflections on Imagination, Survival, and Ambiguous Times: Extremity in Society and Culture
Editat de Daniel Nevárez Araújo, Nelson Varas-Díazen Limba Engleză Hardback – iul 2027
From the eerie calm of nuclear bunkers to the disquieting humor of apocalyptic marketing, this collection investigates how play, pedagogy, and imagination serve as tools for navigating collapse, cultural anxiety, and existential threat. At its core is the concept of playful foreboding-a critical strategy that blends seriousness and levity to face the unthinkable without denying its weight. Through essays, photo essays, and interdisciplinary inquiry, contributors from around the globe examine how extremity is lived, denied, aestheticized, and reimagined in daily life. With insight and urgency, this volume offers a new lens for understanding the complex relationship between extremity and the future
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781666980752
ISBN-10: 1666980757
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 30 images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Extremity in Society and Culture
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1666980757
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 30 images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Extremity in Society and Culture
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Chapter 1 - Playful Foreboding at the Intersection of Extremity and the Future. Nelson Varas-Díaz & Daniel Nevárez Araújo
Section 1: Technologies of Denial and Endurance
Chapter 2 - To Live Forever: Optimization, Health, and Extremity. Sheilla R. Madera
Chapter 3 - The Future of Denialism: From the Instrumental, to the Extreme, to the Beyond. Keith Kahn-Harris
Chapter 4 - Extremity, Permanence, and Ambiguous Escape Valves. Nelson Varas-Díaz
Section 2: Living with Broken Futures
Chapter 5 - Blame It on My Youth: Extremity as a Form of Control in Indonesia. Oki Rahadianto Sutopo
Chapter 6 - Unmooring Traumas of the Past / Drifting Towards Imagined Futures: How Puerto Rico's Obsession with the Past Stagnates Actionable Paths Forward. Daniel Nevárez Araújo
Chapter 7 - The Persistence of Traces: The Shadows of Destroyed Black Archives and the Reinscription of the Black Population in Brazil. Aluísio Ferreira de Lima
Section 3: Practices of Extreme Inquiry
Chapter 8 - Extreme Frustrations: A-Positioning the Future of artXeducation. jessie l. beier, José Cortés & Veronica Mockler
Chapter 9 - Struggling Against the Current: Community Work amid Extremity and Uncertain Futures in Havana, Cuba. John Vertovec and Maria Baylon Guillen
Chapter 10 - Fleeting Frames: A Photographic Project on the Finite and the Fragile in Extreme Times. Nicole Werneck
Section 4: Embodied and Sonic Extremes
Chapter 11 - Run to the Hills: An Epistemological Theory of Extremity through Fell Running. Karl Spracklen
Chapter 12 - Echoes of Extremity: An Analytical Psychology Perspective on Extractivism in the Global South through Metal Music. Léandi Steenkamp & Suzanne Strauss
List of Contributors
Chapter 1 - Playful Foreboding at the Intersection of Extremity and the Future. Nelson Varas-Díaz & Daniel Nevárez Araújo
Section 1: Technologies of Denial and Endurance
Chapter 2 - To Live Forever: Optimization, Health, and Extremity. Sheilla R. Madera
Chapter 3 - The Future of Denialism: From the Instrumental, to the Extreme, to the Beyond. Keith Kahn-Harris
Chapter 4 - Extremity, Permanence, and Ambiguous Escape Valves. Nelson Varas-Díaz
Section 2: Living with Broken Futures
Chapter 5 - Blame It on My Youth: Extremity as a Form of Control in Indonesia. Oki Rahadianto Sutopo
Chapter 6 - Unmooring Traumas of the Past / Drifting Towards Imagined Futures: How Puerto Rico's Obsession with the Past Stagnates Actionable Paths Forward. Daniel Nevárez Araújo
Chapter 7 - The Persistence of Traces: The Shadows of Destroyed Black Archives and the Reinscription of the Black Population in Brazil. Aluísio Ferreira de Lima
Section 3: Practices of Extreme Inquiry
Chapter 8 - Extreme Frustrations: A-Positioning the Future of artXeducation. jessie l. beier, José Cortés & Veronica Mockler
Chapter 9 - Struggling Against the Current: Community Work amid Extremity and Uncertain Futures in Havana, Cuba. John Vertovec and Maria Baylon Guillen
Chapter 10 - Fleeting Frames: A Photographic Project on the Finite and the Fragile in Extreme Times. Nicole Werneck
Section 4: Embodied and Sonic Extremes
Chapter 11 - Run to the Hills: An Epistemological Theory of Extremity through Fell Running. Karl Spracklen
Chapter 12 - Echoes of Extremity: An Analytical Psychology Perspective on Extractivism in the Global South through Metal Music. Léandi Steenkamp & Suzanne Strauss
Recenzii
This is an important book. It is a very timely collection of global scholarly voices that encourage us to engage with the intersections of extremity and the future, both of which are very loaded terms that may evoke flurries of panic and negativity, often offering more questions than answers. Reading this text encouraged me to acknowledge my own fears about the future, whether ecological, financial or health-based, and to reframe these worries as necessary collective endeavors, as moments of global community, of playful foreboding, all gloriously entangled with strident possibilities and hope.
When conceptualizing or even contemplating concerns around extremity and the future, it can be easy to slip into despondency and frustration, and whilst this edited collection fully acknowledges these very legitimate responses, it also provides a place and a framework to explore these ideas in an intelligent, mindful and anticipative way. It celebrates resistance, it honors diversity, and most of all, it gives us the warmth and knowledge to know that we may co-create sites of future-making that actively confront our common uncertainties. As John Vertovec and Maria Baylon Guillen note in their chapter, 'extremity takes the form of a quotidian extreme, where momentary crises have become embedded in the fabric of everyday life'. Whilst the chapters acknowledge these cautions throughout as a foundational principle, it is the hope, the community, and the diversity that shine brightly and brilliantly, lighting a pathway for us all.
When conceptualizing or even contemplating concerns around extremity and the future, it can be easy to slip into despondency and frustration, and whilst this edited collection fully acknowledges these very legitimate responses, it also provides a place and a framework to explore these ideas in an intelligent, mindful and anticipative way. It celebrates resistance, it honors diversity, and most of all, it gives us the warmth and knowledge to know that we may co-create sites of future-making that actively confront our common uncertainties. As John Vertovec and Maria Baylon Guillen note in their chapter, 'extremity takes the form of a quotidian extreme, where momentary crises have become embedded in the fabric of everyday life'. Whilst the chapters acknowledge these cautions throughout as a foundational principle, it is the hope, the community, and the diversity that shine brightly and brilliantly, lighting a pathway for us all.