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By Anthony Lioi

Drawing on a variety of examples from literature, comics, movie, tv and electronic media, Nerd Ecology is the 1st vast ecocritical research of nerd culture's engagement with environmental concerns. Exploring such works as Star Trek, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly, the fiction of Thomas Pynchon, The starvation video games, and superhero comics corresponding to Green Lantern and X-Men, Anthony Lioi maps out the improvement of nerd tradition and its intersections with the main primary ecocritical issues. during this manner Lioi unearths within the narratives of unpopular tradition - narratives within which marginalised participants and groups unite to avoid wasting the planet - the construction blocks of a brand new environmental politics in track with the worries of latest ecocritical thought and practice.

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