Joshua Schuster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693223 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Schuster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Schuster |
| SIGNATURE | SCHUSTER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-0894-676X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction: Amor Mundi in Times of Polycrisis
Will Alexander’s Poetics: Readings Across the Radiant Glossaries
What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals
Indigeneity and Anthropology in Last Worlds
Critique of Alien Reason: Toward a Critical Interplanetary Humanities
This essay argues for a more methodologically diverse search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) and study of habitable exoplanets that might contribute to the emergent field of critical habitability studies across the sciences and humanities. Whether or not contact is made with extraterrestrials, this effort is implicated in changing concepts of otherness at home and the ongoing work to decolonize Earth and make it more inhabitable. I exami…
Coral Cultures in the Anthropocene
This essay discusses how coral is becoming a kind of charismatic megafauna and a cultural icon for extinction in the Anthropocene. Until recently, most of the cultural associations around coral emphasized the strangeness and exotic qualities of coral that combines animal, mineral, and vegetable bodies. Darwin studied coral as a robust maker of atolls, while Melville wrote about coral stringing the Pacific Islands as 'marine gardens.' More recent …
Another Poetry Is Possible: Will Alexander, Planetary Futures, and Exopoetics
Another Poetry Is PossibleWill Alexander, Planetary Futures, and Exopoetics Joshua Schuster (bio) Humans are the primary contributors to a series of overwhelming changes to the earth, diminishing its biodiversity, digging up huge swaths of the ground for resources, damming and moving rivers, saturating soils and waters with chemicals and plastics, and pouring greenhouse-creating gases into the air. The accumulation of all this earth-shaping human…
The Future of the Extinction Plot: Last Animals and Humans in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy
Extinction narratives are typically divided into two streams: last human stories that usually depict apocalyptic ends for the planet, and last animal stories that cast a melancholy look at species finitude but view modernity continuing as usual. But as animal extinction rates are rising now across the planet, these narratives can no longer be seen as distinct. This essay discusses the convergence of these extinction plots in Octavia Butler’s Xeno…
Between Manufacturing and Landscapes: Edward Burtynsky and the Photography of Ecology
The industrial sublime has become the signature trope of Edward Burtynsky's photographs to such a degree that it makes his images now fairly quick to recognize. This essay begins with a critique of the way the conventions of the sublime frame the photography of nature in favor of awe and anxiety over detail and activism. Burtynsky pushes the environmental image to more complicated ecological stakes by making photographs that question the relation…
There Is Always Another Revolution
Between Manufacturing and Landscapes: Edward Burtynsky and the Photography of Ecology
The industrial sublime has become the signature trope of Edward Burtynsky's photographs to such a degree that it makes his images now fairly quick to recognize. This essay begins with a critique of the way the conventions of the sublime frame the photography of nature in favor of awe and anxiety over detail and activism. Burtynsky pushes the environmental image to more complicated ecological stakes by making photographs that question the relation…
Coral Cultures in the Anthropocene
This essay discusses how coral is becoming a kind of charismatic megafauna and a cultural icon for extinction in the Anthropocene. Until recently, most of the cultural associations around coral emphasized the strangeness and exotic qualities of coral that combines animal, mineral, and vegetable bodies. Darwin studied coral as a robust maker of atolls, while Melville wrote about coral stringing the Pacific Islands as 'marine gardens.' More recent …
Another Poetry Is Possible: Will Alexander, Planetary Futures, and Exopoetics
Another Poetry Is PossibleWill Alexander, Planetary Futures, and Exopoetics Joshua Schuster (bio) Humans are the primary contributors to a series of overwhelming changes to the earth, diminishing its biodiversity, digging up huge swaths of the ground for resources, damming and moving rivers, saturating soils and waters with chemicals and plastics, and pouring greenhouse-creating gases into the air. The accumulation of all this earth-shaping human…
There Is Always Another Revolution
Between Manufacturing and Landscapes: Edward Burtynsky and the Photography of Ecology
The industrial sublime has become the signature trope of Edward Burtynsky's photographs to such a degree that it makes his images now fairly quick to recognize. This essay begins with a critique of the way the conventions of the sublime frame the photography of nature in favor of awe and anxiety over detail and activism. Burtynsky pushes the environmental image to more complicated ecological stakes by making photographs that question the relation…
The Future of the Extinction Plot: Last Animals and Humans in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy
Extinction narratives are typically divided into two streams: last human stories that usually depict apocalyptic ends for the planet, and last animal stories that cast a melancholy look at species finitude but view modernity continuing as usual. But as animal extinction rates are rising now across the planet, these narratives can no longer be seen as distinct. This essay discusses the convergence of these extinction plots in Octavia Butler’s Xeno…
Another Poetry Is Possible: Will Alexander, Planetary Futures, and Exopoetics
Another Poetry Is PossibleWill Alexander, Planetary Futures, and Exopoetics Joshua Schuster (bio) Humans are the primary contributors to a series of overwhelming changes to the earth, diminishing its biodiversity, digging up huge swaths of the ground for resources, damming and moving rivers, saturating soils and waters with chemicals and plastics, and pouring greenhouse-creating gases into the air. The accumulation of all this earth-shaping human…
Coral Cultures in the Anthropocene
This essay discusses how coral is becoming a kind of charismatic megafauna and a cultural icon for extinction in the Anthropocene. Until recently, most of the cultural associations around coral emphasized the strangeness and exotic qualities of coral that combines animal, mineral, and vegetable bodies. Darwin studied coral as a robust maker of atolls, while Melville wrote about coral stringing the Pacific Islands as 'marine gardens.' More recent …
Critique of Alien Reason: Toward a Critical Interplanetary Humanities
This essay argues for a more methodologically diverse search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) and study of habitable exoplanets that might contribute to the emergent field of critical habitability studies across the sciences and humanities. Whether or not contact is made with extraterrestrials, this effort is implicated in changing concepts of otherness at home and the ongoing work to decolonize Earth and make it more inhabitable. I exami…
What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals
Indigeneity and Anthropology in Last Worlds
Will Alexander’s Poetics: Readings Across the Radiant Glossaries
Introduction: Amor Mundi in Times of Polycrisis
History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Alien (2 works) · Anthropocene (2 works)