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Daniel Nevárez Araújo, Nelson Varas-Díaz - Extremity and the Future, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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Extremity and the Future

Reflections on Imagination, Survival, and Ambiguous Times

Av Daniel Nevárez Araújo, Nelson Varas-Díaz

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Extremity and the Future: Reflections on Survival, Imagination, and Ambiguous Times brings together psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, educators, artists, and activists to explore how we make sense of extremity in an era of broken futures and uncertain survival. From the eerie calm of nuclear bunkers to the disquieting humor of apocalyptic marketing, this collection investigates how play, pedagogy, and imagination serve as tools for navigating collapse, cultural anxiety, and existential threat. At its core is the concept of playful foreboding—a critical strategy that blends seriousness and levity to face the unthinkable without denying its weight. Through interdisciplinary inquiry, contributors from around the globe examine how extremity is lived, denied, aestheticized, and reimagined in daily life. With insight and urgency, this volume offers a new lens for understanding the complex relationship between extremity and the future.
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Nelson Varas-Díaz is Professor of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University.Daniel Nevárez Araújo is Associate Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico.

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This is an important book. It is a very timely collection of global scholarly voices that encourage us to engage with the intersections of extremity and the future, both of which are very loaded terms that may evoke flurries of panic and negativity, often offering more questions than answers. Reading this text encouraged me to acknowledge my own fears about the future, whether ecological, financial or health-based, and to reframe these worries as necessary collective endeavors, as moments of global community, of playful foreboding, all gloriously entangled with strident possibilities and hope. When conceptualizing or even contemplating concerns around extremity and the future, it can be easy to slip into despondency and frustration, and whilst this edited collection fully acknowledges these very legitimate responses, it also provides a place and a framework to explore these ideas in an intelligent, mindful and anticipative way. It celebrates resistance, it honors diversity, and most of all, it gives us the warmth and knowledge to know that we may co-create sites of future-making that actively confront our common uncertainties.

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