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Sarah E. McFarland is Professor of English at Northwestern State University of Louisiana, USA. Author of many ecocritical articles, she also coedited Animals and Agency: An Interdisciplinary Exploration. We spoke about her recently published book on Ecocollapse fiction. Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinctione (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)
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Anthony Lioi studies and teaches popular culture. He wrote a work on the ecology of nerds and their marginalization and we spoke about the topic. Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture (Bloomsbury, 2018)
0:51 – Anthony explains why he started studying nerds and environmentalism.
3:01 – Anthony talks about what a nerd is.
12:07 – Anthony talks about the Silmarrilion and the Lord of the Rings.
15:18 – Anthony talks about the nerd community and its diversity.
19:16 – Anthony talks about the many properties he discusses in the book.
22:27 – Anthony talks about when being a nerd became mainstream.
29:57 – Anthony talks about how much the global nerd community is focused on the US.
36:30 – Anthony talks about how the book is broken down.
41:34 – Anthony talks about how societies treat groups the majority thinks is inferior.
44:32 – Anthony talks about superheroes as uber-characters such as in The Boys.
52:41 – Picard spoiler – 53:58
54:31 – Anthony talks about some motivations for nerds to embrace the culture.
1:01:00 – Anthony talks about a new project focused on nerd environmentality.
1:06:46 – Anthony can be found at academia.edu
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Eddie Lohmeyer is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Department of Games and Interactive Media at the University of Central Florida, USA. He studies aesthetic and technical developments within histories of digital media, with an emphasis on video games and their relationship to the avant-garde. Additionally, his art considers embodied experience through processes of play and defamiliarization. We spoke about artists who mod games and his research and art. {Unstable Aesthetics: Game Engines and the Strangeness of Modding (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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