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Ethics of Extremity

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On Hearing, Seeing, and Feeling Each Other

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvNelson Varas-Díaz,Vivek Venkatesh

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The Ethics of Extremity critically examines how we can understand, interact with, and intervene in a world where what was once considered extreme has become normalized as part of everyday life.Contributors invite us to re-examine our explicit and implicit expectations that ethics would curtail extremity—and how those assumptions have frequently failed. This opens up a central question: what is the relationship between ethics and extremity today? Rather than offering fixed solutions to this question, the chapters invite readers to rethink how ethics might respond to a world in which extremity is embedded in everyday experience. Through contributions from scholars, artists, and activists, the volume explores how extremity manifests in areas such as public health, digital media, gender violence, combat sports, and ecological collapse. Drawing on diverse methods and contexts, the book unfolds across five thematic interventions proposed by the authors for grappling with extremity today: engaging in uncomfortable forms of closeness; seeing and feeling extremity anew; reclaiming truth in a post-truth era; rethinking illegality and marginality; and using extremity as a teaching tool. Together, these offer entry points for reimagining what ethical life might look like under conditions of persistent crisis.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-03-19
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt568 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieExtremity in Society and Culture
Antal sidor288
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666957556

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List of Tables and FiguresChapter 1: Towards an Ethics of Extremity by Nelson Varas-Díaz and Vivek VenkateshSection 1: Engagement in an Uncomfortable ClosenessChapter 2: Hard Listening: An Ethics of Extremity by Veronica MocklerChapter 3: Invisible in Plain Sight: The Ethics of Participatory Photography among Street-Based Heroin Users in The Dominican Republic by Mark PadillaChapter 4: Quixotism as Extremity: The Aesthetics and Politics of Occlusion by Bradley J. NelsonSection 2: Seeing/Feeling Extremity AnewChapter 5: Miniaturization and the Ethical Magnification of Extremity by Nelson Varas-DíazChapter 6: “We Shall By Morning Inherit the Earth”: Eco-horror and the Limits of Ethics by Jason WallinChapter 7: When the Game is not a Game: Extremity and the Politics of Combat Sports Daniel Nevárez AraújoSection 3: Reclaiming Truth in a Post-Truth EraChapter 8: Conspiratorial Illusions and the Monetization of Fundamentalist Fantasies in Our AI Assisted World: Lessons on Extremity from the Cervantes Lab by David R. CastilloChapter 9: Examining Marketing Practices and Products that Facilitate Religious Extremism by Jeffrey S. PodoshenSection 4: Rethinking IllegalityChapter 10: One Needle at a Time: Illegal Communal Acupuncture in Disaster-Stricken Puerto Rico by Sheilla R. MaderaChapter 11: Ethics of Addressing Extreme Poverty: Permanent Supportive Housing as Social Infrastructure for the Formerly Unhoused in Miami-Dade County by Matthew D. Marr, Lisa Mueller and Catherine VelardeSection 5: Extremity as a Teaching ToolChapter 12: Extremity as Pedagogy: A Case Study on Gender Training through Feminist Metal Strategies in Contexts of Extreme Violence Against Women by Susana González-MartínezChapter 13: Discomfort as an Axis of Arts-Based Social Pedagogy: Ethics of Dissension in an Era of Polarization by Vivek VenkateshIndexAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors