Psychic Extinctness

Abstract

What we write about, calling it ext for short if we like, when we write about extinction, and what we mean when we refer by choice or otherwise to an extinction drive that is not coterminous with death and the Freudian Todestrieb, this will be explored here, starting from Sarah Wood's trigger warning (does the contraction of ext implore against the inappropriate and impossible longueurs of any extinction criticism to come?), in the analytic reveries of Michael Eigen, in The Double Life of Veronique by Krzysztof Kieślowski, in Bionian mathematical symbols and arrows, in the grainy, painful, colour, torque, tautness, magical heaviness and imagistic forms of psychicness and extinctness themselves, and this as a way of wondering if these disturbances in the history of the concept of death which we will mark also give rise to a new generics, an edietics of the ext as the name of a universal component in experience that would be common to any form of humanity, on this or other Earths, in this or other Universes … perhaps to come.