{"id":1720,"date":"2022-10-25T19:12:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T19:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2022-11-22T21:01:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T21:01:36","slug":"online-book-talk-pyne-endlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/events\/booktalk\/online-book-talk-pyne-endlings\/","title":{"rendered":"Online book talk: Pyne, Endlings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/vimeo.com\/773963167\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For our 100th Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk, writer Lydia Pyne discussed her book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/endlings\">Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene<\/a><\/em> (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) with us on Monday, 21 November 2022, at 16:00 in Norway (10am US Eastern). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An endling is the last known individual of a species; when that individual dies, the species becomes extinct. These \u201clast individuals\u201d are poignant characters in the stories that humans tell themselves about today\u2019s Anthropocene. In this evocative work, Lydia Pyne explores how discussion about endlings\u2014how we tell their histories\u2014draws on deep traditions of storytelling across a variety of narrative types that go well beyond the science of these species\u2019 biology or their evolutionary history.<em>Endlings<\/em>\u00a0provides a useful and thoughtful discussion of species concepts: how species start and how (and why) they end, what it means to be a \u201ccharismatic\u201d species, the effects of rewilding, and what makes species extinction different in this era. From Benjamin the thylacine to Celia the ibex to Lonesome George the Gal\u00e1pagos tortoise, endlings, Pyne shows, have the power to shape how we think about grief, mourning, and loss amid the world\u2019s sixth mass extinction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our 100th Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk, writer Lydia Pyne discussed her book Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booktalk"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Pyne_cover.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}