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The Ethics of Extremity critically examines how we can understand, interact with, and intervene in a world where what was once considered extreme has become normalized as part of everyday life. Contributors invite us to re-examine our explicit and implicit expectations that ethics would curtail extremity-and how those assumptions have frequently failed. This opens up a central question: what is the relationship between ethics and extremity today? Rather than offering fixed solutions to this question, the chapters invite readers to rethink how ethics might respond to a world in which extremity is embedded in everyday experience. Through contributions from scholars, artists, and activists, the volume explores how extremity manifests in areas such as public health, digital media, gender violence, combat sports, and ecological collapse. Drawing on diverse methods and contexts, the book unfolds across five thematic interventions proposed by the authors for grappling with extremity today: engaging in uncomfortable forms of closeness; seeing and feeling extremity anew; reclaiming truth in a post-truth era; rethinking illegality and marginality; and using extremity as a teaching tool. Together, these offer entry points for reimagining what ethical life might look like under conditions of persistent crisis.

Table of Contents:
List of Tables and Figures Chapter 1: Towards an Ethics of Extremity by Nelson Varas-Díaz and Vivek Venkatesh Section 1: Engagement in an Uncomfortable Closeness Chapter 2: Hard Listening: An Ethics of Extremity by Veronica Mockler Chapter 3: Invisible in Plain Sight: The Ethics of Participatory Photography among Street-Based Heroin Users in The Dominican Republic by Mark Padilla Chapter 4: Quixotism as Extremity: The Aesthetics and Politics of Occlusion by Bradley J. Nelson Section 2: Seeing/Feeling Extremity Anew Chapter 5: Miniaturization and the Ethical Magnification of Extremity by Nelson Varas-Díaz Chapter 6: “We Shall By Morning Inherit the Earth”: Eco-horror and the Limits of Ethics by Jason Wallin Chapter 7: When the Game is not a Game: Extremity and the Politics of Combat Sports Daniel Nevárez Araújo Section 3: Reclaiming Truth in a Post-Truth Era Chapter 8: Conspiratorial Illusions and the Monetization of Fundamentalist Fantasies in Our AI Assisted World: Lessons on Extremity from the Cervantes Lab by David R. Castillo Chapter 9: Examining Marketing Practices and Products that Facilitate Religious Extremism by Jeffrey S. Podoshen Section 4: Rethinking Illegality Chapter 10: One Needle at a Time: Illegal Communal Acupuncture in Disaster-Stricken Puerto Rico by Sheilla R. Madera Chapter 11: Ethics of Addressing Extreme Poverty: Permanent Supportive Housing as Social Infrastructure for the Formerly Unhoused in Miami-Dade County by Matthew D. Marr, Lisa Mueller and Catherine Velarde Section 5: Extremity as a Teaching Tool Chapter 12: Extremity as Pedagogy: A Case Study on Gender Training through Feminist Metal Strategies in Contexts of Extreme Violence Against Women by Susana González-Martínez Chapter 13: Discomfort as an Axis of Arts-Based Social Pedagogy: Ethics of Dissension in an Era of Polarization by Vivek Venkatesh Index About the Editors About the Contributors

About the Author :
Nelson Varas-Díaz is Professor of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University, USA. Vivek Venkatesh is Dean of the Faculty of Education and a James McGill Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, CAN.

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This compelling collection probes ethics in extreme contexts-from participatory photography with heroin users to feminist metal pedagogy amid violence, and the unsettling terrain of eco-horror-offering vital insights for scholars of ethics, aesthetics, and social change. The Ethics of Extremity is a vital and timely volume that encourages us to form new relationships with the extremes of twenty-first century life, in which media saturation and social silos have normalized all manner of political, social, and economic extremisms. The book's chapters argue for purposeful and discomfiting engagement with the extreme as a tactic for reclaiming our ability to be shocked, navigating post-truth mediascapes, and ultimately wielding the extreme as a tool for intervention and empowerment.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781978760950
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Extremity in Society and Culture
  • ISBN-10: 1978760957
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jan 2026
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Sub Title: On Hearing, Seeing, and Feeling Each Other


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