WEAKNESS, LAMENESS AND VEERING. ON THE PRACTICAL DIMENSIONS OF THEORIES OF ECOCRITICSM
WEAKNESS, LAMENESS AND VEERING. ON THE PRACTICAL DIMENSIONS OF THEORIES OF ECOCRITICSM

Summary/Abstract: The article reviews some recent developments in ecocritical discourses. It briefly overviews the discipline from the point of view of weak thinking and comments on Timothy Morton‟s hyperobjects, a notion which results in what he calls “the state of weakness and lameness for human beings”. This position is contextualised within the claims of Object-Oriented Ontology to demonstrate how – using Nicholas Royle's notion of veering – such ecothinking, while drawing on literary discourses, uses a weakened, non-anthropocentric position to offer an alternative to the standard „strong‟ mode of thinking and writing about the environment, to take it beyond didacticism, guilt and threat.

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