Those who make no effort deserve no consideration

Ecofascism in David Ireland's The World Repair Video Game

Bibliographic Data

ID4792123
AuthorsBrett Heino (0000-0002-0012-245X, University of Technology Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume7
Issue4
Pages1463-1481
Publication date2024-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/25148486241258696
OpenAlexW4399177337
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited23

Ecofascism is an ideology that attempts to ground the fascist political project on a strongly 'natural' basis. Whilst still inchoate and not yet a mainstream political movement, it is an increasingly influential ideology in far-right circles, motivating a number of acts of political violence. This article uses Australian author David Ireland's last novel The World Repair Video Game to explore the structure and constituent elements of ecofascist ideology, and how this is manifested spatially in the literary world of the novel. Using a structural Marxist understanding of literature as a fashioning of ideology, the article argues that, through aesthetic means, Ireland is able to project an ecofascist future that runs ahead of its material reality. In so doing, Ireland plots how a future ecofascism might synergise an essentialist link between the natural and social worlds, hatred towards those who resist the neoliberal link between labour and human worth, extreme violence and a deep, genuine nature worship

Aesthetics · Essentialism · Hatred · Ideology · Mainstream · Marxist philosophy · Media studies · Natural (archaeology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Video game · Worship · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism