ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes an "eventology" that distinguishes between three classes of events distinguishable by their scope and scale and by their status with respect to human observers, to think the post-human, and indeed post-Anthropocenic, sublime, the sublime of human extinction. But before doing so, it provides the context for the thinking-through of the potential sublimity of events in general and of any specific events. The chapter aims to question the notion of proliferating sublimes, or at least of the identification, classification, and comparison of them, by proposing a typology of events that gesture toward something that is radically inassimilable. It focuses on a few variations of the "post-human sublime", the sublime of the Event of extinction. The chapter discusses specter which is haunting humanity; or rather, a specter haunts every human effort to establish humanity as central, foundational, and of ultimate consequence in the world.
