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  "text": "We are restarting #CriticalConcepts for the semester with this beautiful concept by Alison Sperling. Coming from a literature and culture studies perspective, Alison questions the boundaries of genre and, more broadly, how we see and categorize \"the world.\"\n\n#rccresearch #ecology #weird #envhum #rcc",
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        "alt": "The full concept reads: “The weird as an ecocritical category, aesthetic, affect, or otherwise offers a touchpoint for (attempting to) grasp modes of experience in an age in which climate irregularities continue to derange frameworks of temporal and spatial understanding, resist representation, and refuse coherent systems analysis. Similar to the way in which \"global weirding\" rejects the notion that climate change could be effectively reduced, captured, or totalized by a single symptom (warming), the weird as a theory for thinking ecologically disrupts a host of supposedly neat categories of genre (as weird fiction does), as well as poses important challenges to the ways in which we index, periodize, archive, and think more broadly about environment and about “the world.”” by Alison Sperling, Assistant Professor at Floria State University",
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