On Extremity: From Music to Images, Words, and Experiences brings together transdisciplinary scholarship on sounds, images, words, and experiences (human and non-human) to reflect on the polysemic and polymorphic characteristics of extremity and the category of the extreme. The editors and authors aim to contribute to a living, breathing, and expanding definition of extremity that helps us understand what we gain, or lose when we interact with it, create it, and share it with, or force it upon, others. The volume calls for the emergence of “extremity studies” as an area of perusal to help us navigate our current global condition.

Contributions by: Bryan A. Bardine, Niall W.R. Scott, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Alixida Ramos-Pibernus, Anna Chilewska, Bradley J. Nelson, Robin Purves, Sheilla R. Madera, Edward Banchs, Jasmine Hazel Shadrack, Jason Wallin, Jeffrey Podoshen, Luis Javier Cintrón-Gutiérrez, Ross Hagen, Vivek Venkatesh