Jack Jiang is a PhD student in anthropology at the New School for Social Research.

His dissertation centers on the activist community of anti-natalists in Tokyo. In recent years, anti-natalist activists have become increasingly visible as they question the ethics of continued human reproduction. What, if anything, is the purpose of continuing life (as we know it)?

These questions are endemic to modern bioethical debates as well as existentialist philosophy. Each of these histories have influenced contemporary anti-natalists. But these questions are also germane to a time increasingly saturated by end-time imaginaries, from ecological breakdown to discourses on demographic collapse in Japan. What shapes the contours of these end-time imaginaries, and what new forms of kinship, ethics, and politics do they give rise to?

Suturing the philosophical, the political, the moral, and the ecological, my research interests cover broadly the anthropology death, kinship, religion and secularism, and intergenerational ethics.

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