Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law)

by Thom van Dooren

To allow the term “extinction” to stand for only the death of the last of a kind is to think within an impoverished notion of “species,” a notion that reduces species to specimens, reified representatives of a type in a museum of life, and in so doing ignores the entangled relations that are a particular form of life.8