Abstract
This essay analyzes manifestations of ecological weirding in selected texts by French author Antoine Volodine (Radiant Terminus) and American author Jeff VanderMeer (Annihilation; Dead Astronauts). Ecological weirding not only depicts the ways in which ecological disasters haunt the texts of Volodine and VanderMeer, but it is also a fictional manifestation of tangled temporal turbulences and spaces that self-replicate, morph, expand, or disappear altogether within the narrative itself. Anchored in cross-pollinated Francophone and Anglophone speculative traditions, Volodine’s and VanderMeer’s novels elaborate on the uncanniness of living in the fuzzy spacetime of the Anthropocene. My analysis demonstrates that for Volodine, there is an eternal—even comical—absurdity to human existence in the warped spacetime of the Anthropocene age, whereas in VanderMeer’s novels, something new and hopeful might be gleaned from such absurdity in a damaged world.
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