{"product_id":"9780810147195-negative-life","title":"Negative Life","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Cinema of Extinction\u003cbr\u003eOffering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticism’s emphasis on pedagogies of care and interconnection, this book brings cinema studies, queer theory and psychoanalysis into novel configuration around a concept inherent to yet critical of life: negative life, a sundering of the connections between human and nonhuman relations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticism’s emphasis on pedagogies of care and interconnection, \u003ci\u003eNegative Life: The Cinema of Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e brings cinema studies, queer theory, and psychoanalysis into novel configuration around a concept inherent to yet critical of life: negative life, a sundering of the connections between human and nonhuman relations. Engaging questions and challenges such as the nothingness of existentialism, the aversive side of sex, and the immanent exception of the drive in psychoanalysis, coauthors Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay not only counter ecocritical pieties but cut a new path for theory. They engage a unique corpus of films and philosophies that reject the pastoralism of “entanglement” or “enmeshment,” which have functioned as as an ethical and aesthetic alibi for extinction. \u003ci\u003eNegative Life\u003c\/i\u003e examines films by Julian PÖlsler, Kelly Reichardt, Lee Isaac Chung, Mahesh Matai, and Paul Schrader, which exemplify the existential contradictions that have intensified amid the sixth mass extinction; meanwhile, a set of interludes on the genre of ecohorror supplement this focus on negative life and the philosophers and theorists who express it. Each case study testifies formally and thematically to negative life as a structural condition of thought and film. Together, the titles that compose the titular cinema of extinction 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. \u003ci\u003eNegative Life \u003c\/i\u003emilitates against this promise, showing that faith in connection is a dead end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55808905445750,"sku":"9780810147195","price":26.11,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34940227.jpg?v=1750903111","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780810147195-negative-life","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}