Who Would You Kill to Save the World?

"A crucial contribution to the field of extinction studies. Colebrook's book challenges philosophy itself, the whole conceptual discourse that frames what 'we' call 'our place' and how this framing produced a relegated otherness named the 'more-than-human-world.' Her book is an efficient and convincing demonstration of the necessity to question our drive to survival."-FrÉdÉric Neyrat, author of The Unconstructable Earth: An Ecology of Separation "Unfolding like a Yoshimoto cube, one seemingly stable object-the 'end of the world' as allegorically navigated by twenty-first-century cinema-transforms completely under Claire Colebrook's watch, revealing a wholly new sense of its subject. At stake: the value of humanity, its claim for a right to ongoingness, the nature of attachment, and the fraught conception of the world as such."-Eugenie Brinkema, author of Life-Destroying Diagrams