Speculative Annihilationism: The Intersection of Archaeology and Extinction

Speculative Annihilationism: The Intersection of Archaeology and Extinction

by Matt Rosen
Speculative Annihilationism: The Intersection of Archaeology and Extinction

Speculative Annihilationism: The Intersection of Archaeology and Extinction

by Matt Rosen

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Overview

If Levinas and Negarestani raised a child enchanted by the dark, then this is his debut. In this book, Rosen argues that current archaeological theoretic approaches are not up to the task of adequately theorizing exhumation in our present age of extinctions. Speculative Annihilationism attempts to “think thought’s extinction,” suggesting a new ontological ground for archaeology. Combining contemporary work in speculative philosophy, saprophytic dialectics, and Levinasian ethics, Rosen’s “putrefied-thought” explores themes of the unthought and unthinkable, anonymity, otherness, and meaninglessness so that archaeology can be granted a new basis, a new avenue of inquiry at its intersection with extinction.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789041477
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 06/01/2019
Pages: 112
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.10(d)

About the Author

Matt Rosen is a theorist, writer, and student whose research centers on the archaic, the dark, and the relation between people and things. He is currently a student at Colorado College.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

Acknowledgments 3

Introduction: Lomekwi 3 4

1 Quasi-Australopithecus

1.1 Archaeological theoretic approaches 5

1.2 The resurrection of Australopithecus 12

1.3 Empirical extinction 15

2 Extinction and Time

2.1 The causal clock 19

2.2 An objection considered 20

2.3 Heat death 21

2.4 Conflicting temporalities and spatialization 23

2.5 Radicalizing Heidegger: species as species-towards-extinction 26

2.6 Schellingian extinction 29

3 Extinction and Materials

3.1 The differentiation of species 31

3.2 A dichotomous choice? 32

3.3 A relation of subsumption 35

4 The Phenomenal/Real Collapse

4.1 Escaping the resurrection 38

4.2 Metzinger's "nemocentrism" 39

4.3 The phenomenal/real distinction 41

4.4 Disintegrating Sellars' "manifest image of man-in-the-world" 42

5 Analogy and Assemblages

5.1 Artifacts and embodiments 45

5.2 Deleuzo-Guattarian territorializations 46

5.3 Epistemic ground, the earthwormic dialectic, and material analogy 48

6 Thinking Annihilation

6.1 Thinking the extinction of thought 52

6.2 Becoming and extinction 56

6.3 What does speculative annihilationism involve? 57

6.4 Thought's extinction, capital, and the horizon of thought 77

6.5 The unheimlich real: existence without existents 80

Notes 88

Glossary 96

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