On Extremity: From Music to Images, Words, and Experiences brings together transdisciplinary scholarship on sounds, images, words, and experiences (human and non-human) to reflect on the polysemic and polymorphic characteristics of extremity and the category of the extreme. The editors and authors aim to contribute to a living, breathing, and expanding definition of extremity that helps us understand what we gain, or lose when we interact with it, create it, and share it with, or force it upon, others. The volume calls for the emergence of "extremity studies" as an area of perusal to help us navigate our current global condition.
Nelson Varas-Diaz is professor of social-community psychology at Florida International University's Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies. Bryan Bardine is professor in the English Department at the University of Dayton. Niall W.R. Scott is reader in philosophy and popular culture at the University of Central Lancashire.
Chapter 1 - On Extremity: A Manifesto Nelson Varas-Diaz, Niall Scott, and Bryan Bardine SOUNDS Chapter 2 - The Aesthetics of Extreme SoundsNiall ScottChapter 3 - Essential Musicality: Extreme Music and the Sounds of Everyday Life Ross Hagen Chapter 4 - Extremities within Extremity: Sisterhood as Strategies of Resistance in the UK Underground Metal Scene Jasmine Hazel Shadrack Chapter 5 - Voices for the Voiceless: Animal Rights and Extremity in Extreme Music Edward Banchs and Anna Chilewska Chapter 6 - No Satisfaction: Aihiyo after The Rolling Stones Robin Purves IMAGES AND WORDS Chapter 7 - Extremity - Art - Decoloniality: Lessons for Survival in the Work of Puerto Rican Artist Rafael Trelles Nelson Varas-Diaz Chapter 8 - The Limits of Extremity: The Disappearance and Return of Extremity in Late Capitalism Jason J. Wallin Chapter 9 - Seeking the Banality in the Extreme: Prescient Identifiers of Vapid Narcissism in an Era of Post-Truth Vivek Venkatesh Chapter 10 - Quixotism and Extremity: Cervantes on Authenticity, Delusion, and Reality Literacy in Early and Late Modernity Bradley J. Nelson Chapter 11 - Devil Running Wild: Satan and his Minions in Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, and The Omen Bryan Bardine EXPERIENCES Chapter 12 - Rethinking Extremity through Gender Detransition Sheilla R. Madera and Alixida Ramos Pibernus Chapter 13 - Para'o: Exotic Wake, Extreme Performance and Marginality in San Juan, Puerto Rico Luis Javier Cintron Gutierrez Chapter 14 - Pushing the Limits of the "Darkest" Dark Tourism in the Age of Extremity Jeffrey S. Podoshen
