Cover

Dedication

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Foreword by Bruno Latour

Epigraph

Prefatory note

Acknowledgments

1: What rough beast . . .

Metaphysics and mythophysics

2: . . . Its hour come round at last . . .

Gaia and anthropos

The end-of-the-world perspective

3: . . . Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

The world before us

The world after us

4: The outside without thought, or the death of the Other

A certain worldless people of the recent past

The thanatological argument

“Nobody will miss it”

5: Alone at last

Ceci n’est pas un monde

After the future: the end as beginning

The Great Indoors: Tarde’s speculative speleology

6: A world of people

The end of transformations, or the first Anthropocene

Anthropomorphism contra anthropocentrism

The end of the world of the Indians

7: Humans and Terrans in the Gaia War

The impossible species

The end of the world as a fractal event

Conclusion

World on the brink

To believe in the world

Notes

Prefatory note

Chapter 1 What rough beast . . .

Chapter 2 . . . Its hour come round at last . . .

Chapter 3 . . . Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

Chapter 4 The outside without thought, or the death of the Other

Chapter 5 Alone at last

Chapter 6 A world of people

Chapter 7 Humans and Terrans in the Gaia War

Conclusion: World on the brink

Bibliography

Index

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