Tools for Extinction

Enrique Vila-Matas, Olivia Sudjic, Jon Fosse, Inger Wold Lund, Vi Khi Nao, Patrícia Portela, Lucie Elven, Mara Coson, Christina Hesselholdt, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Naja Marie Aidt, Michael Salu, Joanna Walsh, Jakuta Alikavazovic, Anna Zett, Emilio Fraia, Frode Grytten, and Olga Ravn Translations by Margaret Jull Costa, Zoë Perry, Martin Aitken, Denise Newman, Paul Russell Garrett, Damion Searls, and Rahul Bery Eighteen international writers respond to the open-ended period of social distancing, closures, and illness caused by Covid-19. Compiled during the initial lockdown in Europe, this special collection is a meteoric publishing project with contributions from some of the most exciting and innovative authors working today. Meditating on notions of distance and closeness, sameness and alterity, extinguishing and kindling, Tools for Extinction considers how a common pause might give rise to new modes of domesticity and shift experiences of time. What gestures and actions are we willing to perform to make ourselves, and each other, feel at ease - or at work? What tools and objects are useful, or unprecedentedly useless, to us in the process? And as our species' trademark proclivity for projecting ourselves into the future is disrupted, might we come to see the buildings, animals, plants, and foodstuffs around us in a new light?The anthology takes its name from Steven Brand's Whole Earth Catalog, a 1960s counterculture compendium of product reviews, essays, and articles on the themes of self-sufficiency, ecology, and alternative education. By giving "access to tools", a new social order and a more sustainable Earth was imagined. Compiled, edited and with a foreword by Denise Rose Hansen.

Product details

• Authors: Naja Marie Aidt, Jakuta Alikavazovic, Jeaan-Baptiste del Amo, Jean-Baptiste de Amo, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Mara Coson, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Lucie Elven, Jon Fosse, Christina Hesselholdt, Vi Khi Nao, Vi Khi Nao, Patricia Portela, Olivia Sudjic, Enrique Vila-Matas, Joanna Walsh, Inger Wold Lund
• Assisted by: Denise Rose Hansen (Editor), Denise Rose Hansen (Editor)
• Publisher: Lolli Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2020
• EAN: 9781999992828
• ISBN: 978-1-9999928-2-8
• No. of pages: 120
• Dimensions: 200 mm x 132 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 208 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)