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Naming,Mourning, and the Work of Earthly Coexistence
Authors:Joshua Trey Barnett
Institution:1. Department of Communication, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, USA;2. Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Abstract:Setting out from Jacques Derrida’s assertion that every act of naming is “a foreshadowing of mourning” (2008. The animal that therefore I am. (M.-L. Mallet, Ed., D. Wills, Trans.). New York, NY: Fordham University Press], p. 20), this paper argues that the work of earthly coexistence is underwritten by the intertwined practices of naming and mourning. The paper demonstrates that names provide access to and shape our perceptions of earthly entities; that the act of naming prepares us for the work of mourning; that the proper names given to endlings provide poignant points of access to species on the edge of extinction; that species names disclose species as such and, thus, enable us to grieve not just particular living organisms but entire ways of life; and that the name given to the current geological epoch, the “anthropocene,” simultaneously reflects and engenders a mode of awareness which enables us to relinquish those ways of being human that no longer seem sustainable and carry forth those that promise to enrich earthly coexistence.
Keywords:Naming  mourning  anthropocene  ethics  coexistence  extinction
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