Extreme

Limits and Horizons in the Once and Future Cosmos

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2430331
AutoresD Valentine (0000-0002-6843-410X, Twin Cities Orthopedics), Valerie A Olson, Valerie Olson (0000-0002-8258-3937, University of California, Irvine), Debbora Battaglia (0000-0002-8681-064X, Mount Holyoke College)
Año2012
Volumen85
Número4
Páginas1007-1026
Fecha de publicación2012-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/anq.2012.0066
OpenAlexW1995773748
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas33
Referencias citadas36

This paper introduces a special collection of Anthropological Quarterly for examining "the extreme" in contemporary modernity. Drawing upon sites of political, scientific, and economic engagement that source specifically to the extraterrestrial, we argue that the figure of the extreme shapes an analytic of limits and ever-opening horizons-epistemological and physical-provoking new understandings of humanness, environment, temporality, and of inter-species life as we think we understand it, here on Earth. It follows that this framework is not restricted to the environment of outer space: the analytic of the extreme, which is broadly salient in contemporary imagination and social practice, opens to examination of how all modern subjects are capable of upending modernity's everyday spaces and timelines. The assembled papers cohere around this commitment. Coming in from very different angles, each seriously considers the possibility of outcomes not anticipated by analytic or vernacular explanatory frameworks, while refusing to commit anthropologists to the dangers of prognostication

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