Negative Life: A Conversation with Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay

In this episode Che Gossett, associate director of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania speaks with the authors of Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP, 2024) professors Steven Swarbrick of CUNY and Jean Thomas Tremblay of York University.  They discuss the concept of negative life, the contemporary politics of ecocriticism, film theory, psychoanalysis, and queer studies.    Music Credit: The Day the World Turned Day-Glo, by X-Ray Spex