‘Those who make no effort deserve no consideration’: Ecofascism in David Ireland’s The World Repair Video Game

Heino, B

‘Those who make no effort deserve no consideration’: Ecofascism in David Ireland’s The World Repair Video Game

Heino, B

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Publisher:: Sage
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Environment & Planning E, 2024, 7, (4), pp. 1463-1481
Issue Date:: 2024-05-30

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dc.contributor.author	Heino, B https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0012-245X
dc.date.accessioned	2024-11-22T04:57:45Z
dc.date.available	2024-11-22T04:57:45Z
dc.date.issued	2024-05-30
dc.identifier.citation	Environment & Planning E, 2024, 7, (4), pp. 1463-1481
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dc.description.abstract	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.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Sage
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dc.subject.classification	4401 Anthropology
dc.subject.classification	4406 Human geography
dc.subject.classification	4407 Policy and administration
dc.title	‘Those who make no effort deserve no consideration’: Ecofascism in David Ireland’s The World Repair Video Game
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Abstract:

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.

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