Titlebook: Spectres of Pessimism; A Cultural Logic of Mark Schmitt Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license

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ast, present and future. Mark Schmitt therefore couples pessimism and hauntology to explore the spectres of pessimism in a range of theories and narratives—from ecocriticism, antinatalism and queer theory to ut978-3-031-25351-5

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,Introduction: “Being for Being Against”: Pessimism and the Cultural Moment,ous expressions of what this book proposes to call new pessimisms. These include apocalyptic/dystopian fictions, new cultural pessimism, queer pessimism and afropessimism, among others. Informed by Stuart Hall and Lawrence Grossberg’s work, the introduction proposes the method of conjunctural analys

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From Pessimism of Theory to Radical Utopianism: Gramsci, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, the worst, that is, the subject of this book. The chapter concludes with a reflection on the place of pessimist analysis and hopeful utopian thought in contemporary cultural theorising vis-à-vis more radical strands of contemporary pessimism.

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Undoing Better Worlds: Anti-Utopianism from Cioran to Afropessimism,nd Steve McQueen’s short film “Education” from his anthology . (2020) illustrates the dialectic relationship of afropessimism with notions of (Black) utopia. The chapter thus argues that utopianism and pessimism can be seen as two different and sometimes even complimentary epistemological frames. Th

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The Kids Will Not Be Alright: Grievable Futures and the Ethics of Reproductive Pessimism,ossible to mourn the future if the future is only imaginable “as catastrophe” (Eva Horn)? And what cultural representational forms would be suitable to make the future “grievable”? Such experiments with time, the ethical implications of human procreation and futures to be mourned are the paradigmati

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Embracing the Apocalypse: Extinction, Cosmic Pessimism and Ahuman Futures,i and the ahuman theory of Patricia MacCormack and explores how these ideas resonate in Lars von Trier’s film . (2011) and Camille Griffin’s film . (2021). Like the philosophy of Ligotti and MacCormack, these films prefigure futures beyond the human.

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Sandesh Sanjeev Phalke,Abhishek Shrivastavaa from brain science, neuropsychology, and technology are assayed in an attempt to understand how consciousness is related to brain, and what problems that relationship poses. Since these are focal issues on many pages, I wish to point out that consciousness is just one exposed tip of the mental ice