On Extremity

Nelson Varas-Díaz is professor of social-community psychology at Florida International University’s Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies. Bryan Bardine is professor in the English Department at the University of Dayton. Niall W.R. Scott is reader in philosophy and popular culture at the University of Central Lancashire.

On Extremity is a ground-breaking collection of essays that promises to shift our understanding of a concept that is often used but rarely scrutinized. While rooted in studies of metal the editors and authors expand outwards to other forms of art and practice, forging connections between multiple extremities.

• Chapter 1 - On Extremity: A ManifestoNelson Varas-Díaz, Niall Scott, and Bryan BardineSOUNDSChapter 2 - The Aesthetics of Extreme SoundsNiall ScottChapter 3 - Essential Musicality: Extreme Music and the Sounds of Everyday LifeRoss HagenChapter 4 - Extremities within Extremity: Sisterhood as Strategies of Resistance in the UK Underground Metal SceneJasmine Hazel ShadrackChapter 5 - Voices for the Voiceless: Animal Rights and Extremity in Extreme MusicEdward Banchs and Anna ChilewskaChapter 6 - No Satisfaction: Aihiyo after The Rolling StonesRobin Purves IMAGES AND WORDSChapter 7 - Extremity – Art – Decoloniality: Lessons for Survival in the Work of Puerto Rican Artist Rafael TrellesNelson Varas-DíazChapter 8 - The Limits of Extremity: The Disappearance and Return of Extremity in Late CapitalismJason J. WallinChapter 9 - Seeking the Banality in the Extreme: Prescient Identifiers of Vapid Narcissism in an Era of Post-TruthVivek VenkateshChapter 10