Heights They Should Never Have Scaled
Our (Weird) Planet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5339728 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gry Ulstein (0000-0001-5919-2834, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 14-33 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SubStance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sub.2021.0020 |
| OpenAlex | W3213188265 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 14 |
In this article, I scrutinize the much-discussed “walrus scene” from Netflix’s nature documentary Our Planet (2019) for its formal and thematic similarities to weird fiction. I argue that these similarities reveal tensions in how we conceptualize the environment, the human, and the nonhuman. By comparing the narrative strategies in the walrus scene to similar strategies in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy (2014), I problematize the emergent crosstalk between the weird and the Anthropocene, and the ways in which it mediates the environmental crisis, via concepts such as “Anthropocene horror,” “world-without-us,” and “global weirding.”
Aesthetics · Anthropocene · Art · Art history · Astrobiology · Astronomy · Environmental ethics · Geography · Literature · Narrative · Planet · Trilogy · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Philosophy
From the Grotesque to Nuclear-Age Precedents
Nature documentaries and saving nature
The Great Derangement
The Weird Ecologies of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
The Apocalyptic Sublime
Dark Places
Literature and the Anthropocene
The Capitalocene Part II
Introduction
Ecological Grief and Anthropocene Horror
The weird
Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene
The Climate of History
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |