The contemporary ecological condition is one of 'global weirding', a term coined to describe
both anthropogenically changed worlds and the experience of dwelling within them. In this …

Emergent research in metagenomics has unveiled large quantities of previously unknown
and unclassified prokaryotic DNA. As these prokaryotes constitute the vast majority of …

The science fiction of Ursula Le Guin deftly uses prose to conjure alternative worlds,
societies and cultures of nature amidst times of profound upheaval. Equally, her writing is …

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Weirdness of the World eric schwitzgebel prince ton university press prince ton & oxford Page 5 …

The twenty-first century has seen a new wave of interest in the Kingdom Fungi across
biology, literature, and visual art. One reason for this has been a shift in both fungi's …

Following the material turn in the humanities, this book brings perspectives from science and
ecology into dialogue with children's fiction written and published in the UK and the USA in …

This article scrutinizes Jeff VanderMeer's novel Annihilation (2015) and its cinematic
adaptation directed by Alex Garland (2018) with the aim of investigating the tensions …

This chapter explores the concept of global climate realism through the lens of river flood
narratives. It begins by situating realism within the environmental humanities and briefly …

This chapter will consider Finnish Weird as a speculative environmental genre. The term
“Finnish Weird”(suomikumma in Finnish) was coined in the early 2010s by Finnish author …

This thesis investigates entanglements between digital game narratives and non-human
matter through a framework of game space which draws on theories of spatial production …