Extinction

by Claire Colebrook (Editor)

Introduction: Framing the End of the Species

The Anthropocene

Will Steffen - "The Anthropocene, Global Change and Sleeping Giants: Where on Earth Are We Going?"
Jan Zalasiewicz et al. - "Are We Now Living in the Anthropocene?"
Jan Zalasiewicz et al. - "Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene"
Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams and Will Steffen - "The New World of the Anthropocene"

Time and Discipline

K. J. Willis - "How Can a Knowledge of the Past Help to Conserve the Future? Biodiversity Conservation and the Relevance of Long-term Ecological Studies"
Valentí Rull - "Ecology and Palaeoecology: Two Approaches, One Objective
Ecosystems and Biodiversity"
Jeremy B. Jackson - "Ecological Extinction and Evolution in the Brave New Ocean"
Harold A. Mooney - "The Ecosystem Service Chain and the Biological Diversity Crisis"
Norman Myers and Andrew H. Knoll - "The Biotic Crisis and the Future of Evolution"

Mass Extinction

S. A. Wooldridge - "Mass Extinctions Past and Present: A Unifying Hypothesis"

Comprehending Extinction

Robert M. May - "Ecological Science and Tomorrow’s World"
Stephen Jay Gould - "The Evolution of Life on Earth"
Valentí Rull - "Beyond Us: Is a World Without Humans Possible?"
Sarda Sahney and Michael J. Benton - "Recovery from the Most Profound Mass Extinction of All Time"
Jessica H. Whiteside et al. - "Compound-specific Carbon Isotopes from Earth’s Largest Flood Basalt Eruptions Directly Linked to the end-Triassic Mass Extinction"
Richard J. Behl - "Glacial Demise and Methane's Rise"
Don N. Page - "Possible Anthropic Support for a Decaying Universe: A Cosmic Doomsday Argument"

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First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Claire Colebrook is an Australian cultural theorist, currently appointed Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. She has published numerous works on Gilles Deleuze, visual art, poetry, queer theory, film studies, contemporary literature, theory, cultural studies and visual culture.