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Richard This volume marks the conclusion of an informal trilogy of culminates my initial five-year tenure as director of the Center Century Studies (C21) at the University of Wisconsin- the preceding two volumes—The Nonhuman Turn and Feminism—this one originated in the annual spring by C21.1 Each of the three volumes responds in different but ways to the question I posed at the beginning of my directorship "What is twenty-first-century studies?" Although they offer only complete snapshot of this complex area of interdisciplinary three volumes speak to one another in interesting and After Extinction in particular picks up on the speculative spirit previous year's conference (and subsequent volume) on feminism, which began as a kind of experiment in ing Like that conference, the conference on which this volume started with a single question: what comes after extinction? debates about the Anthropocene, this question has been very ent, in relation both to the anthropogenic sixth extinction and premediated disappearance of humans as a species. Indeed, the Anthropocene is already to assume a future world in presence on Earth has been reduced to a lithic layer. The contains within it both the anticipation of human extinction imagination of how such extinction would manifest in Our predominant understanding of the extinction event under the twenty-first century relates to natural species largely by human actions. But as our conference and volume v
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