Humanitys Ruins is a riveting portrait of humanitarianisms genocidal logics not just in its collaborations with state-sanctioned violence - most obviously as warfare but also as rehabilitation, ethnography, and preservation - but also in its ethical claims about vulnerability, crisis, and humanity as a whole. Reading this book is a revelation. - Mimi Thi Nguyen, author of The Promise of Beauty Arguing that visions of human extinction and vulnerability are central to the expansion of humanitarian justifications for racial and colonial violence, Danielle Bouchard offers a new and insightful contribution to (post)colonial studies, media studies, and feminist theory. By attending to invocations of the human across media, literature, journalism, philosophy, and other genres, Bouchard unravels the violent logics of humanitarianism in public culture. - Neel Ahuja, author of Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century
