海角社区

鈥淲e live on an alien planet filled with incredibly sophisticated organisms that we only partially understand,鈥� writes New Weird author Jeff Vandermeer, 鈥溾�� our so-called smart-phones and other advanced technology are incredibly dull and primitive next to the diversity and intensity of other life on Earth.鈥� This module examines the convergence of weird eco-literature from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with recent scientific research on the more than human world. Alongside established genres such as eco-gothic and the 鈥榥ew nature鈥� writing, we will explore the environmental uncanny of an Anthropocene epoch in which the combined (but unevenly experienced) effects of global heating, ecocide and the wholesale transformation of the earth elicit a rich array of literary and cultural responses. Authors may include Olga Tokarczuk, Eka Kurniawan, Rita Indiana, Fernanda Tr铆as, Jeff Vandermeer, Mark Fisher, Derek Jarman, Nicole Seymour and Merlin Sheldrake.