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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
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'The World of the Dying:’ John McGahern’s Memoir and the Thingness in Anticipatory Grief
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2021 My essay will aim to prove that John McGahern’s Memoir foregrounds the material dimension of anticipatory grief and its aftermath as a space in which different affective responses to the “Thing” can be explored.
Andrei Bogdan Popa
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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents the concept “constructive alienation” as a response to the oversaturation of apocalyptic environmental fiction that has contributed to deep‐seated desensitization toward the climate crisis, resulting in crisis of imagination (Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, 2016; Solnit, If you win the ...
Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard
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A new Anthropocene aesthetics: Mediating Harman, Morton, and Boysen
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Practitioners of Object‐Oriented Ontology (OOO) have critiqued the metaphysical assumptions of contemporary poetry, and particularly the position of the lyric speaker. Scholars such as Graham Harman and Timothy Morton have positioned themselves as critics of these lyric sensibilities. In recent years, concerns have risen around their critiques
Chase Cate
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Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Natural recovery of disturbed marine ecosystems can take years, mainly because long‐lived, functionally important species are lost. To regain ecosystem services, the focus of estuarine restoration is shifting from biodiversity metrics to functional restoration.
Natalie Prinz +5 more
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The Weirdness of Hyperobjects [PDF]
Pulse, 2021 Global weirding, a phrase coined by Hunter Lovins and popularised by Thomas Friedman, has garnered a modicum of prominence since its popularisation in the late 2000s. It was coined as a replacement for global warming, with the abnormal effects of climate
Steffan Jenkins
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Futural Dispatches on Responsibility for the Earth, or, ‘What on Earth Is Ethical Responsibility?’
Humanities, 2022 This article explores the question of the limits of ethical responsibility in the context of the contemporary ecological crisis. Drawing centrally on a selection of writings by Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas and, in the second half of the article ...
Dave Boothroyd
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Transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural StudiesThis study is an examination of the narratorial qualities of Moby-Dick and their effect on the mystic portrayal of the whale. Moby-Dick’s eponymous whale has become a universal symbol of the unattainable and unknowable.
Karl Gustav Korsgaard-Klausen
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The Hyperobject and the White Cube: The “Strange Stranger” in Douglas Coupland’s Canada House
Open Cultural Studies, 2018 Douglas Coupland’s site-specific installation Canada House, temporarily erected in 2004 in a house deemed by locals to be a “tear down” in a Vancouver suburb, unwittingly captured the zeitgeist of the era eco-critics and theorists have named the ...
Polyck-O’Neill Julia
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The potential of seedbank digital information in plant conservation
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 1017-1028, July 2026.Seedbanks are vital for biodiversity conservation, but their potential remains underutilised due to a limited understanding of the intraspecific genetic diversity they hold. By leveraging digitised data associated with seedbank collections, such as sampling locations, number of maternal plants and seed traits, we can attempt the estimation of genetic ...
Roberta Gargiulo +23 more
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