Jack Jiang
Jack Jiang is a PhD student in anthropology at the New School for Social Research. His current project centers on the activist community of anti-natalists protesting against human procreation, who provide a unique vantage point from which to explore forms of intergenerational ethics beyond those endemic to political institutions today. His research interests cover broadly death and extinction, religion and secularism, moral anthropology, and ecology. He has previously written for Public Seminar.
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Since 2019, a growing group of “anti-natalist” activists have been used as a foil to demonstrate rising anxieties regarding future prospects of life on earth. Writing for the New York Times, Ezra Klein (2022) has claimed that anti-natalists fear a dystopian future so much that bringing a new person into this existence is immoral for […]