Daigle Christine

In the face of our pervasively nihilistic attitude towards the present polycrisis, Joyful Extinction proposes a radically hopeful perspective, arguing that futures are possible if we gladly embrace the extinction of damaging humanist ways of living. Taking a posthumanist and material feminist approach to the social, political, economics and existential crises in which we are embroiled, Christine Daigle foregrounds the fundamental entanglement - material and subjective - of all beings. From the concept of the Anthropocene as post-apocalyptic discourse, to an examination of extinction, and an inquiry into the life/death continuum, these reflections on individual and collective death demonstrate the importance of 'storying' extinction. The result is the original concept of 'joyful extinction' – a vision of the acceptance of death that, nevertheless, doesn't see the end of the human species just yet. Daigle argues that as instances of life, humans have one last chance to dramatically change their course: only this will allow for futures to unfold, with a reworlding fuelled by hope. As well as chapters on entanglement, extinction and the Anthropocene, the book contains a collection of 'meanderings' that take reflections and experiences from the author’ss own life to illustrate the theoretical perspectives discussed.

In the face of our pervasively nihilistic attitude towards the present polycrisis, Joyful Extinction proposes a radically hopeful perspective, arguing that futures are possible if we gladly embrace the extinction of damaging humanist ways of living. Taking a posthumanist and material feminist approach to the social, political, economics and existential crises in which we are embroiled, Christine Daigle foregrounds the fundamental entanglement - material and subjective - of all beings. From the concept of the Anthropocene as post-apocalyptic discourse, to an examination of extinction, and an inquiry into the life/death continuum, these reflections on individual and collective death demonstrate the importance of 'storying' extinction. The result is the original concept of 'joyful extinction' – a vision of the acceptance of death that, nevertheless, doesn't see the end of the human species just yet. Daigle argues that as instances of life, humans have one last chance to dramatically change their course: only this will allow for futures to unfold, with a reworlding fuelled by hope. As well as chapters on entanglement, extinction and the Anthropocene, the book contains a collection of 'meanderings' that take reflections and experiences from the author’ss own life to illustrate the theoretical perspectives discussed.

Ten days to keep a lie. Ten plagues if you deny. Ten ways to watch them die. Five years ago, when Detective Jena Campbell put the Leviticus Killer behind bars, she locked her darkest secret away with him. Something never meant to surface. Something better left to rot with the madman who had destroyed so many lives. When a strange man calling himself Azrael appears on social media with threats to unleash ten plagues, ten deaths, in ten days, unless Leviticus is released, Jena is forced to reopen that door and face her past. Unable to share what she knows, she turns to the only man who can help her find Azrael before he kills again, the man she condemned. Jena quickly learns the only thing more terrifying than facing him, is facing herself.