Thinking alongside The Last Humanity

This is a conversation in response to Francois Laruelle's recent book, The Last Humanity: The New Ecological Science. Published in French in 2015, Anthony Paul Smith’s English translation of the book is due to appear in November 2020. For this conversation, performance researcher Laura Cull O Maoilearca sent questions about the book to three leading scholars of non-philosophy who also have specific interest and expertise in the question of the nonhuman, animality and ecology: Katerina Kolozova, Anthony Paul Smith and John O Maoilearca. All quotations in the text are from Anthony Paul Smith’s forthcoming translation (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).