This contribution discusses Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England (2013), a British folk horror film featuring a key ‘trip scene’, against the backdrop of contemporary discourse that frames the psychedelic experience as a tool for ecological awareness. Drawing on film, fungi, psychedelic studies, and the environmental humanities, I argue that the film raises the expectation of a (magic)...
This essay focuses on the writings and trip reports of several key figures of the first psychedelic revolution from an eco-critical perspective. Although the Earth Movement can be said to have emerged from the countercultural ethos of activists heavily influenced by the psychedelic revolution, the relationship of these earliest psychedelic advocates – such as Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary – to...
This article examines how the work of contemporary American poet Dana Ward generates ecological thinking through ‘infinity lyric’: a mode shaped by psychedelic aesthetics, drifting attention and shifting scales of perception. By close reading Ward’s two collections, This Can’t Be Life (2012) and The Crisis of Infinite Worlds (2013), in conversation with poststructuralist, new materialist and...