Those who make no effort deserve no consideration

Ecofascism in David Ireland's The World Repair Video Game

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ID4792123
AutoresBrett Heino (0000-0002-0012-245X, University of Technology Sydney, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume7
Fascículo4
Páginas1463-1481
Data de publicação2024-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/25148486241258696
OpenAlexW4399177337
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências 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