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<p><span>This collection brings together transdisciplinary scholarship on sounds, images, words, and experiences to reflect on extremity’s polysemic and polymorphic characteristics.</span></p>

<p><span>Chapter 1 - On Extremity: A Manifesto</span></p>
<p><span>Nelson Varas-Díaz, Niall Scott, and Bryan Bardine</span></p>
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<p><a><span>SOUNDS</span></a></p>
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<span>Chapter 2 - The Aesthetics of Extreme Sounds</span>
<span>Niall Scott</span>
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<p><span>Chapter 3 - Essential Musicality: Extreme Music and the Sounds of Everyday Life</span></p>
<p><span>Ross Hagen</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 4 - Extremities within Extremity: Sisterhood as Strategies of Resistance in the UK</span><span> U</span><span>nderground Metal Scene</span></p>
<p><span>Jasmine Hazel Shadrack</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 5 - </span><span>Voices for the Voiceless: Animal Rights and Extremity in Extreme Music</span></p>
<p><span>Edward Banchs and Anna Chilewska</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 6 - </span><span>No Satisfaction: Aihiyō after The Rolling Stones</span></p>
<p><span>Robin Purves </span></p>
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<p><a><span>IMAGES AND WORDS</span></a></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 7 - Extremity – Art – Decoloniality: Lessons for Survival in the Work of Puerto Rican Artist Rafael Trelles</span></p>
<p><span>Nelson Varas-Díaz</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 8 - The Limits of Extremity: The Disappearance and Return of Extremity in Late Capitalism<br>Jason J. Wallin</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 9 - Seeking the Banality in the Extreme: Prescient Identifiers of Vapid Narcissism in an Era of Post-Truth</span></p>
<p><span>Vivek Venkatesh</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 10 - Quixotism and Extremity: Cervantes on Authenticity, Delusion, and Reality Literacy in Early and Late Modernity</span></p>
<p><span>Bradley J. Nelson</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 11 - Devil Running Wild: Satan and his Minions in </span><span>Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist, </span><span>and</span><span> The Omen</span></p>
<p><span>Bryan Bardine</span></p>
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<p><a><span>EXPERIENCES</span></a></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 12 - Rethinking Extremity through Gender Detransition</span></p>
<p><span>Sheilla R. Madera and Alíxida Ramos Pibernus</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 13 - </span><span>Para’o</span><span>: Exotic Wake, Extreme Performance and Marginality in San Juan, Puerto </span><span>Rico</span></p>
<p><span>Luis Javier Cintrón Gutiérrez</span></p>
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<p><span>Chapter 14 - Pushing the Limits of the “Darkest” Dark Tourism in the Age of Extremity</span></p>
<p><span>Jeffrey S. Podoshen</span></p>
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<p><span>Nelson Varas-Díaz </span><span>is professor of social-community psychology at Florida International University’s Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies. </span></p>
<p><span>Bryan Bardine</span><span> is professor in the English Department at the University of Dayton. </span></p>
<p><span>Niall W.R. Scott</span><span> is reader in philosophy and popular culture at the University of Central Lancashire. </span></p>