Those who make no effort deserve no consideration

Ecofascism in David Ireland's The World Repair Video Game

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4792123
AutoresBrett Heino (0000-0002-0012-245X, University of Technology Sydney, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen7
Número4
Páginas1463-1481
Fecha de publicación2024-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/25148486241258696
OpenAlexW4399177337
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas23

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