Heights They Should Never Have Scaled: Our (Weird) Planet

Ulstein, Gry

doi:10.1353/sub.2021.0020

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“…Weirding ‘now echoes through popular culture’, (Noys, 2016; 250) evident in the emergence of cinema’s ‘Greek Weird Wave’ (Papanikolaou, 2020), the American Weird (Greve and Zappe, 2020), the Woke Weird (Shapiro, 2020), the Finnish Weird (Leinonen, 2017), the Black Weird (Dunning, 2020), as well as weird nature documentaries (see Ulstein, 2021b). Sperling (2017b; 159) has even issued a call for ‘a Newer, a Next Weird’ to keep apace with the rapidly changing nature of experience thus far in the 21st century.…”

Section: The Weird From Old To New: Differencementioning

confidence: 99%

For a new weird geography

Turnbull

Platt

Searle

2022

Progress in Human Geography

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The contemporary ecological condition is one of ‘global weirding’, a term coined to describe both anthropogenically changed worlds and the experience of dwelling within them. In this paper, we foreground New Weird fiction as a progressive literary style, distinct from its problematic roots, with conceptual import to human geography. Through attention to the New Weird’s treatment of difference, dis/orientation and ecological relation, these texts provoke geographers to foster a speculative ethics suited to a weirding world. In suggesting this ethical approach, this paper contributes to emerging debates in geography concerning ambivalence, disorientation and affirmation/negation.

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Section: The Weird From Old To New: Differencementioning

confidence: 99%

For a new weird geography

Turnbull

Platt

Searle

2022

Progress in Human Geography

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Weird Environmental Ethics: The Virtue of Wonder and the Rise of Eco-Anxiety

Onishi

2022

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Recent discussions of “eco-anxiety” have brought attention to feelings of hopelessness and despair associated with climate change and ecological disaster. When we accept the claims made by science about climate change and realize that our near future is full of unprecedented ecological crisis it is difficult to avoid feelings of anxiety about the future of human life on our planet. While these discussions have largely taken place in the context of psychology and psychoanalysis, there is a need to engage in ethical deliberation about both “eco-anxiety” and “eco-trauma.” In this paper, I argue that an environmental virtue of wonder can help to articulate the intersection of environmental ethics and “eco-anxiety” by offering a mean between the excess of anxiety and the deficiency of boredom. I situate this discussion within trauma studies and make connections between the pre-trauma of climate change, wonder, and eco-cinema. More specifically, I argue for a weird environmental ethic that embraces fuzzy boundaries of entangled environments and show that the virtue of wonder allows for flourishing within this context. I use cinema, and specifically Eco-Weird cinema, to argue for a shift in narratives about our present and our future as it relates to climate change.

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Heights They Should Never Have Scaled: Our (Weird) Planet

Cited by 2 publications

References 8 publications

For a new weird geography

For a new weird geography

Weird Environmental Ethics: The Virtue of Wonder and the Rise of Eco-Anxiety

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