“a magnificent achievement. beautifully written and of our time.” peg birmingham, depaul university, editor of philosophy today
How to live
at the
End of the
World T h e o r y, A r t , a n d P o l i t i c s f o r t h e A n t h r o p o c e n e B Y
T R A V I S
H O L L O W A Y
Assessing the dawn of the Anthropocene era, a poet and philosopher asks:
How do we live at the end of the world? The irony of the Anthropocene era is that, in a neoliberal culture of the self, it is forcing us to consider ourselves as a collec�ve again. For those of us who are not wealthy enough to start a colony on Mars or isolate ourselves from the world, the Anthropocene ends the fantasy of sheer individualism and worldlessness once and for all. It introduces a profound sense of �me and events a�er the so-called "end of history" and an en�rely new approach to solidarity. How to Live at the End of the World is a hopeful explora�on of how we might inherit the name "Anthropocene," renarrate it, and revise our way of life or thought in view of it. In his book on �me, art, and poli�cs in an era of escala�ng climate change, Holloway takes up difficult, unanswered ques�ons in recent work by Donna Haraway, Kathryn Yusoff, Bruno Latour, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Isabelle Stengers, sketching a path toward a radical form of democracy—a zoocracy, or, a rule of all of the living.
����� ��� ������ Travis Holloway grew up queer and workingclass in a rural factory town affected by free trade and globaliza�on. He is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Farmingdale and a poet and former Goldwater Fellow in Crea�ve Wri�ng at NYU.
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