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