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THE OXFORD LITERARY REVIEW Volume 38 | Number 1 Overpopulation

Editorial Introduction Timothy Clark ARTICLES ‘But the real problem is….’: The Chameleonic Insidiousness of ‘Overpopulation’ in the Environmental Humanities Timothy Clark Taboo Teens and Ancient Adults: Overpopulation motifs in fictional literature for children and young people Jennifer Ford THE OXFORD LITERARY REVIEW Living, Again: Population and Paradox in Recent Cinema Extracts fromVolume the OLR 38 | archiveNumber 1 Keith Clavin Is Overpopulation a Growth? The Pathology of Overpopulation Permanent Expansion

Overpopulation Edited by Timothy Clark Patricia Vieira Overpopulation and Biopolitical Frames Paul Alberts Is it Ecologically Just to Be? Anti-Natalism in Eco- Philippe Lynes Escape Velocity: Hyperpopulation, species splits, and the counter-Malthusian trap (after ‘tipping points’ pass) Tom Cohen

REVIEWS Volume 38 Number 1 2016 ABSTRACTS CONTRIBUTORS

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OLR 38_1 Covers.indd 1 15-04-2016 PM 06:45:31 OLR Celebrating 40 years of publication, this collection of extracts showcases some of the most important texts of the last 40 years and presents a comprehensive listing of themes addressed through the issues of OLR.

OLR devotes itself to outstanding writing in deconstruction, literary theory, psychoanalytic theory, political theory and related forms of exploratory thought. Founded in 1977 it remains responsive to new concerns and committed to patient, inventive reading as the wellspring of critical research. It has published work by many trailblazing thinkers and seeks to take forward the movement of deconstructive thought in the face of as many forms and institutions as possible.

The journal publishes both general issues and special issues, each of the latter featuring a provocative theme (e.g. ‘The Word of War’, ‘Telepathies,’ or ‘Disastrous Blanchot’). It invites relevant contributions across a wide range of intellectual disciplines on issues and writers belonging to or engaging the work of deconstructive thinking (such as Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot, Levinas, Irigaray, and others). Editors (2016): Professor () Professor Timothy Clark (University of Durham) Professor Peggy Kamuf (University of Southern California) Professor Michael Naas (De Paul University, Chicago) Professor Nicholas Royle () Dr Sarah Wood (University of Kent) A selection of OLR themed issues:

Sexual Difference (Jul 1986) Colonialism & Other Essays (Jul 1987) Philosophical Encounters (Jul 1989) Psychoanalysis and Literature (Jul 1990) Neocolonialism (Jul 1991) Frontiers (Jul 1992) Experiencing the Impossible (Jul 1993) On India - Writing History, Culture, Post-Coloniality (Jul 1994) The University in Ruins (Jul 1995) Derridas (Jul 1996) Knowledge, Learning & Migration (Jul 1997) Beyond Redemption - The work of Leo Bersani (Jul 1998) Technologies of the Sign (Jul 1999) Disastrous Blanchot (Jul 2000) Monstrism (Jul 2001) Reading Cixous Writing (Jul 2002) Angles on Derrida - Jaques Derrida and Anglophone Literature (Jul 2003) The Blind Short Story (Jul 2004) Exposures - Critical Essays on Jean-Luc Nancy (Jul 2005) The Future of the Humanities - U.S. Domination and Other Issues (Jul 2006) Derridanimals (Jul 2007) Telepathies (Dec 2008) Writing and Immortality (Jul 2009) The Word of War (Dec 2009) Deconstruction, Environmentalism, and Climate Change (Jul 2010) The Truth in Photography (Dec 2010) Deconstruction and Poetry (Dec 2011) Shakespeare and Derrida (Jul 2012) Deconstruction in the Anthropocene (Dec 2012) ‘The Fiction of the World’ and Other Essays (Jul 2013) Death Sentences (Dec 2013) The Present of Deconstruction (Jul 2014) A Decade after Derrida (Dec 2014) Experiences of Conversion (December, 2015) Overpopulation (July, 2016)

FEATURED EXTRACTS

Analysing Speculative Discourse as Language-Game, Jean-François Lyotard Volume 4 Issue 3, December 1981

The Dream-Work Does Not Think, Jean-François Lyotard Volume 6 Issue 1, July 1983

Post-Structuralism: The End of Theory, Robert Young Volume 5 Issue 1-2, July 1982

Let us not Forget—Psychoanalysis, Volume 12 Issue 1, July 1990

For a Heteronomous Cultural Politics: The University, Culture and the State, Bill Readings Volume 15 Issue 1, July 1993

Word Processing, Jacques Derrida Volume 21 Issue 1, July 1999

For Friendship, Volume 22 Issue 1, July 2000

Tranced: Melville, Blanchot, Ann Smock Volume 22 Issue 1, July 2000

Hélène Cixous or Stroboscopic Writing, Gilles Deleuze Volume 4 Issue 1, July 2002

The Unforeseeable, Hélène Cixous Volume 26 Issue 1, July 2004

A Certain Silence, Jean-Luc Nancy Volume 27 Issue 1, July 2005

A Question of Tempo to Lucette Finas, Volume 5 Issue 1-2, July 1982 www.euppublishing.com/olr