The Call of the Eco-Weird in Fiction, Films, and Games

This edited volume identifies and analyses the Eco-Weird as an interdisciplinary theoretical tool for engaging in fictional, philosophical, filmic, and ludic texts. It is the first volume to engage in the study of the Eco-Weird, which is a developing field at the intersection of environmental thought and Weird fiction, broadly construed to include literature, games, films, art, and television shows. The Eco-Weird has intersections with other literary and scholarly fields, including horror studies, game studies, phenomenology, literary criticism, and eco-criticism, but provides a unique set of tools to engage both its texts and the ongoing environmental crises of climate change, environmental justice, pollution, and more.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Fungal Fictions: New Weird Materialism and Mycelial Biohorror.- Chapter 3: Departing the Place Once Familiar: Lovecraft's Eco-Weird Thought.- Chapter 4: The Weird as Crisis Genre: Tipping Points, Ontological Reorientation, and the Desert Tide in Algernon Blackwood's "Sand" (1912).- Chapter 5: Weird Ecology and the Deconstruction of the Globe.- Chapter 6: Hermeneutics and the Eco-Weird.- Chapter 7: (Eco)-Weirding Folk Horror in Alex Garland's Men.- Chapter 8: Staying with the Weird: Apophatic Wonder and Cosmographic Exploration in Eco-Weird Games.- Chapter 9: Tabletop Eco-Weird: Gameplay Experience and Ecological Ethics.- Chapter 10: Forms and Themes of the Eco-Weird: Experimentation and Play in a Warming World.

About the author

Brian Hisao Onishi is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, PA, USA.
Nathan M. Bell is a lecturer in Philosophy at Dallas College, Dallas, TX, USA.  

Product details

• Assisted by: Nathan M. Bell (Editor), Brian Hisao Onishi (Editor), M Bell (Editor), Brian Hisao Onishi (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.01.2025
• EAN: 9783031771255
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3177125-5
• No. of pages: 247
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 18 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 435 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 247 p. 13 illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Literaturtheorie, Darstellende Künste, Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie, Medienwissenschaften, Phenomenology, Phänomenologie und Existenzphilosophie, Game Studies, Ecocriticism, New Materialism, Philosophy of Nature, Film and Television Studies, Film Studies, Games Studies, eco-phenomenology, Eco-Weird