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 recent years, anti-natalist activists have become increasingly visible as they repurpose the “wrongful life” legal argument for a broader political and moral claim. Imagining a radically dysphoric future—in the form of ecological breakdown, authoritarian political regimes and extreme economic precarity—have pushed the anti-natalist movement to extend the notion of harm to encompass all life, challenging secular humanism’s ultimate value.

His research interests cover broadly death and extinction, religion and secularism, moral anthropology, and ecology.

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