Eco-Theory and Annihilation provides a masterful, philosophically informed, and up-to-date overview of the expanding field of eco-theory and its major thinkers. In addition, by pairing eco-theory with practical ecocriticism of Garlands film version of VanderMeers novel Annihilation, it discloses the indispensability of particular contexts of lived experience and practice. Eco-Theory and Annihilation provides us with new ecological thinking needed to cope with life in the Anthropocene and to rethink what it means to be human. * Monika Kaup, Professor, English, University of Washington, USA * Evan Gottliebs book takes a deep-time approach to eco-theory in order to draw out, in scene-by-scene, and often shot-by-shot, analyses of the most important implications of Alex Garlands film Annihilation, the willingly unfaithful adaptation of Jeff VanderMeers novel. Through concepts such as Donna Haraways making kin, Stacy Alaimos transcorporeality, and the authors own carbon-heavy masculinity, Garlands film is used to argue for an increased realization of the messy and entangled nature of the world in which humanity finds itself. * Brian Willems, Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Croatia *
