Who Would You Kill to Save the World?

<p><em>Who Would You Kill to Save the World?</em> examines how postapocalyptic cinema uses images from the past and present to depict what it means to preserve the world--and who is left out of the narrative of rebuilding society. Claire Colebrook redefines the world as affluent Western society and saving the world as preventing <em>us</em> from becoming the othered <em>them</em> who are viewed in their suffering. Colebrook further examines how the use of postapocalyptic cinema is a humanist--Western capitalist colonizing white heteronormative and individualist--creation and challenges the notion that a world built on foundations of exploitation is worth saving. </p><p> Colebrook combines postapocalyptic fiction concern over the global climate crisis colonialism and anti-Blackness to explain how contemporary postapocalypse blockbusters circulate ideas of whiteness and the right of the privileged to rebuild the world. <em>Who Would You Kill to Save the World?</em> is a provocative addition to the field of extinction studies and challenges the conceptual frames we use to define ourselves. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Claire Colebrook</strong> is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English Philosophy and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University. She is the author of a number of books including <em>Deleuze and the Meaning of Life Gender and Irony in the Work of Philosophy</em> (Nebraska 2003).</p>