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Aesthetics of extinction: biodiversity loss, banal violence and exuberant presence Dr Kathryn Yusoff, University of Exeter, UK To grieve, and to make grief itself into a resource for politics, is not to be resigned to inaction, but it may be


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Aesthetics of extinction: biodiversity loss, banal violence and exuberant presence

Dr Kathryn Yusoff, University of Exeter, UK

To grieve, and to make grief itself into a resource for politics, is not to be resigned to inaction, but it may be understood as the slow process by which we develop a point of identification with suffering itself. (Butler 2004, 30)

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7 September 1936.

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Being noticed and putting in a good appearance…

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Giving an account of oneself…

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Presence/absence in representational orders

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Subjects of the biosphere: Relational and non- relational ties

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  • Being a community with

something/nothing in common

  • Mourning
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Narratives of extinction Aesthetics and ethics of extinction