New Book: 鈥淗uman Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary鈥�
by Christos Lynteris has just been published by Routledge鈥檚 鈥淪tudies in Anthropology鈥� series.
The book employs the notion of the 鈥榩andemic imaginary鈥� in order to understand the way in which the anticipation and fantasy of pandemic-borne human extinction refashions our understanding of humanity and its place in the world.
Employing Castoriadis鈥檚 notion of the imaginary to epidemiological studies, popular culture, modes of scientific visualisation, and pandemic preparedness campaigns, the book challenges us to think how cosmological, aesthetic, ontological and political aspects of pandemic catastrophe are intertwined.