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The event launching the 2025 Quarry Farm Symposium on Energy Studies begins with opening address by co-organizer Jeffrey Insko, then discussion of the theory of Everyday Ecofascism with collaborators from University of Connecticut [8:00], then questions from the live audience of Energy Humanities scholars [50:00].
Cast (in order of appearance): Jeffrey Insko, Matt Seybold, Alexander Menrisky, April Anson, Caroline Levine, Brent Bellamy, Thomas S. Davis
Date Recorded: October 10, 2025
Music: Redd Holt & The Heptet
Featured Guests
April Anson is Assistant Professor of English and Social & Critical Inquiry at the University of Connecticut, as well as the co-author of “Green Walls: Everyday Ecofascism & The Politics of Proximity” (boundary 2, 2023) and Against The Ecofascist Creep (2022)
Jeffrey Insko is Professor of English & Coordinator of American Studies at Oakland University and the author of The Current newsletter and The Line 6B Citizens Blog. In 2025, he receive the Burton V. Barnes Award for outstanding academic contributions in support of the environment from the Sierra Club.
Alexander Menrisky is Associate Professor of English and affiliate faculty in American Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis & Consumption in American Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) and co-author of Against The Ecofascist Creep (2022)
Episode Bibliography
Xtn Alexander & Matthew N. Lyons (Ed.) Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politcs & Antifascism (PM Press, 2024)
Anti-Creep Climate Initiative, Against The Ecofascist Creep (2022)
April Anson & Anindita Banerjee, “Green Walls: Everyday Ecofascism & The Politics of Proximity” boundary 2 (February 2023)
Stewart Brand (Ed.) Whole Earth Catalog (1968-1971)
Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia: The Notebooks & Reports of William Weston (Bantam, 1977)
Paul Collier, The Plundered Planet (Oxford UP, 2010)
Paul R. Ehrlich, The Population Bomb (Ballantine, 1968)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits (1848)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836)
Jack Forbes, “Fascism: A Review of Its History & Its Present Cultural Reality In The Americas” Exporations in Ethnic Studies (January 1982)
Amitov Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change & The Unthinkable (U Chicago P, 2016)
Madison Grant, The Passing of The Great Race (1916)
Jeffrey Insko, History, Abolition, & the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing (Oxford UP, 2019)
Constantin Iordachi, Comparative Fascist Studies: New Perspectives (Routledge, 2009)
Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip Into The Mirror World (Macmillan, 2023)
Ariel Levy, “The Secret Life of Plants” New Yorker (September 12, 2016)
John Locke, “Of Property” in The Second Treatise of Government (1689)
Andreas Mahm, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power & The Roots of Global Warming (Verso, 2016)
Andreas Mahm & Wim Carton, Overshoot: How The World Surrendered To Climate Breakdown (Verso, 2024)
Alexander Menrisky, Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis & Consumption in American Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 2025)
Alexander Menrisky, “Hallucinogenic Ecology & Psychoanalytic Prehistory in Margaret Atwood” Mosaic (September 2019)
Sam Moore & Alex Roberts, The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change & The Far Right (Polity, 2022)
George Mosse, Toward The Final Solution: A History of European Racism (U Wisconsin P, 1978)
Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism (Knopf, 2004)
Roland Robinson, “Fascism & Antifascism: A Decolonial Perspective” in Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politcs & Antifascism (PM Press, 2024)
Henry David Thoreau, “Walking” (1851)
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) [2006 Modern Library Edition]
Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier is American History” (1893)
Event Copy
12th Quarry Farm Symposium: Energy Studies Full Program with Video of Panel Papers
This live recording of The American Vandal Podcast will feature two scholars from the Anti-Creep Climate Initiative who are both researching ecofascism and challenging its dominant myths via public humanities work. Central to our discussion will by the critical category of “everyday ecofascism” which encompasses both the crisis narratives that incite political violence and moreover the often mundane and/or middlebrow representations of geopolitics, energy production, population growth, resource allocation, and climate science which serve, intentionally or unintentionally, to validate eschatology and extremism.
