These Survivals – Autobiography of an Extinction Huffer Hardback 9781478028369

These SurvivalsAutobiography of an Extinction\nAuthor(s): Lynne Huffer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9781478028369, 978-1478028369\nSynopsis\nA collage-style work in fragments, Lynne Huffers These Survivals brings together philosophy, memoir, poetry, and original multimedia artworks to articulate an ethics of living on a devastated planet. Focusing on climate change and mass species extinction, Huffer approaches ruination through assemblages rendered in sharp-edged prose, vibrant color images, and experimental features that include black-out poems, weather reports, and abecedarian essays. She considers her struggles with everyday life and confronts the immensity of extinction across the expanse of geological time, recognizing the selfs insignificance in the context of the planets [url] existence. As she moves across autobiographical, political, and literary registers, her abiding theme is the repeated phra.