Weird Ecologies and the Limits of Environmentalism

Helen RA Ingham

Please join us on Thursday 12th May 5:00pm to 7:00pm in Arts 103 for a fascinating talk with Prof. Dennis Denisoff.

Arts 103

<p>The Victorians thought and acted in ways we could now recognise as environmentalist, but they did so through their own methods and cultural matrices. My talk addresses an ecological worldview that contrasts with the stewardship models that dominated much of 19th-century British environmentalism. The flourishing of weird fiction in the late-19th and early-20th centuries has led to a sense of what has recently been called ‘global weirding’. Eco-weird fiction and art of the fin-de-siècle, I propose, emphasizes models of the ecological as a diversity of self-motivated agents or indifferent forces. These works are not, necessarily part of an environmentalist initiative, but they bring forward perspectives on animal, vegetal, and atmospheric ontology in which natural elements are subjects worthy of engagement on weird terms. In the process, the works undermine the confidence and productivist assumptions of a middle class assuming its capacity to organise, manage, and exploit the natural world.</p>

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