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1	Interconnectedness, Complicity and Ambiguity: Reading with Dark Ecology Whipple, Rachel Dene 01 July 2016 (has links) There are many aspects of ecological thinking. When reading texts through a lens of dark ecology, certain conflicts that arise from the imposition of human expectations on natural systems are revealed. These include interconnectedness, complicity, and ambiguities. Within a system, boundaries are contingent and transitory. Beginnings and ends are gradual, not definite. Ecological systems change over time, but it is a category error to imagine that change represents progress or to assume a teleological purpose. While there are hierarchies of power, and different roles, no species is, ecologically speaking, more advanced than another. Ecological criticism focuses on interconnectedness, complicity, and ambiguity in art and literature, and is well suited to texts that deal with destructive processes like degradation and decay. Noir serves as a good example of a genre that can be read as an ecological system. Graphic novels, which already defy easy categorization are also ripe for ecological study..In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep the boundary between natural and artificial is blurred, not just through the exploration of empathy, but in human artifacts. Watchmen uses many techniques, including a fractured narrative, simultaneous scenes on a single page, and the visual unity space and time to undermine the idea of clear beginnings and endings and critique teleology. A third work, Beautiful Darkness, probes how natural forces of disintegrations overcome temporary human constructs, including civilization. A dark ecological reading yields a sense of humility, instead of certainty, about human capacity for knowledge regarding ecological systems. It fosters respect for the unknowable that lies in shadow and the complicated natural systems that defy attempts at reduction. Disruptive events in narratives, when read ecologically, remind us of the unpredictable results that manipulation of components of the system can have for humanity, as well as on the functioning and balance of the system as a whole. dark ecology graphic novels noir ecological criticism Classics
2	Den svarta ån : En ekokritisk läsning av Hans Lidmans Det nappar i Svartån Berggren, Albin January 2021 (has links) I denna uppsats appliceras ett ekokritiskt perspektiv på Hans Lidmans Det nappar i Svartån med syfte att analysera hur naturen skildras. Undersökningen identifierar förekomsten av typiska naturstereotyper samt hur Lidman förhåller sig till den lokala platsen. Vidare diskuteras Svartåns symboliska betydelse. Med utgångspunkt i ett antal litterära troper presenterade av Greg Garrard identifieras ”det förorenade”, ”det vilda” och ”förhållandet mellan människa och djur” som tre betydelsefulla naturstereotyper. Analysen av platsens betydelse utgår ifrån Martin Heideggers begrepp dwelling och illustrerar hur hembygden får en framträdande roll i Det nappar i Svartån. Timothy Mortons koncept dark ecology ligger till grund för den avslutande diskussionen kring Svartåns symboliska betydelse och visar hur Svartån framträder som en plats där gränser mellan olika livsformer suddas ut och motsättningen mellan människa och natur – subjekt och objekt löses upp. Hans Lidman Det nappar i Svartån ekokritik naturskildringar dwelling dark ecology General Literature Studies Litteraturvetenskap
3	Dark Ecology: Obscurities Illuminated Gollbo, Nadja January 2024 (has links) This study investigates “dark ecology” – an ecological theory formulated by Timothy Morton, based on an object-oriented ontology and claimed to offer a new perspective on how humans can and should coexist with other “objects” in the world in a better, less hostile way. Dark ecology is a critique of both an anthropocentric and a biocentric worldview, aiming to erase the dichotomy between human/nature and subject/object. This essay performs an internal critique of dark ecology, analyzing and interpreting Morton’s books Dark Ecology (2016) and Being Ecological (2018) through the lens of two central concepts – “responsibility” and “agency” in order to extract the premises of importance to the theory. These premises are then presented in Aristotelian syllogisms, based on which the validity of dark ecology is evaluated. The aim of the essay is to find an answer to the question as to whether dark ecology is logically coherent and consistent – and thus can really be seen as a fruitful perspective on how humankind should act in relation to the environment or not. The result from this investigation is that dark ecology is an invalid theory since it suffers from both incoherence and inconsistency. Based on this, it is concluded that dark ecology fails to achieve what it is presented to do. The answer to the research question of this essay, “Is dark ecology a theory that, if applied, leads to a change in humans’ relationship with the biosphere for the better?” is therefore “no”. dark ecology object-oriented ontology internal critique political theory speculative realism ecological philosophy environmental issues
4	L'union fait la force (géologique) : une analyse écocritique des Fourmis de Bernard Werber / (Geological) force in unity : an ecocritical analysis of Empire of the ants by Bernard Werber Sebbfolk, Annie January 2019 (has links) The paper is an ecocritical analysis of the Empire of the ants, a book written in 1991 by Bernard Werber. Through this green reading, the author seeks to better understand how climate change is created from a social point of view and why, by inherence, it is so difficult to avert. As the book is largely a juxtaposition of the human society and that of ants, the author compares the two species in order to determine which one is better equipped to tackle climate change, as well as which factors, cultural, political or biological, allow for the necessary measures to be taken. The study finds that the complexity of climate change exceeds our understanding of time and space, making it impossible for us to imagine and consequently tackle in any satisfactory manner. Though ants display features superior to ours when it comes to carrying out this task, the study further concludes that there is an accompanying moral dilemma to such actions, as the environmentally profitable not always is in the best interest of individual lives. ecocriticism bernard werber bernard werber ecology nature ants empire of the ants environment environmentalism dark ecology anthropocene climate change global warming green reading ecofiction nature writing écocritique bernard werber bernard werber environnementalisme anthropocène fourmis umwelten écofiction écologie écologique changements climatiques environnementaux climat rechauffement climatique bernard werber ekokritik werber bernard myror ekologi natur klimatförändringarna klimathotet Specific Literatures Litteraturstudier
5	Natursyn i antropocen : En ekokritisk läsning av dikter av Ingela Strandberg och Gunnar D Hansson / Representations of Nature in the Anthropocene : An Ecocritical Reading of Poems by Ingela Strandberg and Gunnar D Hansson Olsson, Vera Maria January 2020 (has links) In the Anthropocene, a new approach towards nature in poetry is emerging. This change is closely related to ecocritical theory, which is a reevaluation of the human view on, and representation of, nature. It moves away from a more traditional anthropocentric perspective to a more critical one. This can for instance be in the spirit of Arne Naess or Timothy Morton, the two main theorists used in this essay. This essay is an ecocritical close reading of two Swedish contemporary poems on nature: “När jag går i skymningsmörkret” by Ingela Strandberg (from Att snara en fågel, 2018) and “(Strandförskjutningar)” by Gunnar D Hansson (from Tapeshavet, 2017). The focus of the reading is on the representation of wild, untouched nature. The formulated questions in the essay concern how untouched nature is represented in the poems, the human relationship towards it and how the differences and similarities between the two poems relate to and transform romantic representations of nature. The conclusion is that these two very different poems exemplify the range of contemporary Swedish nature poetry. Strandberg’s poem is leaning towards a romantic or ecosofist representation of nature, whilst Hansson’s is more clear-cut ecocritical in line with Morton’s dark ecology. ecocriticism nature poetry ecopoetry contemporary Swedish poetry Gunnar D Hansson Ingela Strandberg Arne Naess deep ecology ecosophy Timothy Morton dark ecology the Anthropocene ekokritik naturlyrik ekopoesi natursyn samtida svensk poesi Gunnar D Hansson Ingela Strandberg Arne Naess djupekologi ekosofi Timothy Morton mörk ekologi antropocen Languages and Literature Språk och litteratur General Literature Studies Litteraturvetenskap

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