︎ Death Activism: A Joyful Apocalypse


September 28, 2022



This seminar discusses the status of the Apocalypse in the current time of apocalypse, especially for nonhuman animals and minorities who do not live an apocalypse with a narrative but whose living status is a form of death - social death, status death, exploitable flesh as death. Covertly, what is the value in the perpetuation of the human as a dominating oppressive form of life on Earth? Is this question still too radical to address in a way devoid of nihilism? Creating a death activism based on care, on joyful nurturing, to rethink questions about the status of what constitutes life and death in the abstract and materially, is an ethical obligation humans have to the Earth and each other. Death activism embraces lives as liveable while interrogating the effects of human exceptionalism as a form of death perpetuation. 


(Patricia MacCormack)