Mahlu Mertens
Biographic Data
| ID | 4055359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahlu Mertens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahlu |
| FAMILY NAME | Mertens |
| SIGNATURE | MERTENS M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Anthropocenic Affects and Ethics in Aaron Thier's Mr. Eternity
Anthropocenic Affects and Ethics in Aaron Thier's Mr. Eternity Mahlu Mertens (bio) Introduction In the discourse on ecological mourning, "the vulnerabilities [of marginalized groups] to climatic and environmental change" and the resulting ecological grief are often ignored or absent, because, as Ashlee Cunsolo points out, these marginalized bodies "do not usually matter within policy and discourse" (2017, p. 181). Similarly most climate change fi…
Contemporary Fiction vs. the Challenge of Imagining the Timescale of Climate Change
Fiction writers who try to do justice to the vast temporal and spatial scales and the enormous complexity of climate change are faced with the problem that the phenomenon exceeds human perception and that it is not dramatic in the traditional sense. In this article we explore the formal challenges that arise when fiction takes on the temporality of climate change by examining three very different novels that seek to capture the geological timesca…
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Contemporary Fiction vs. the Challenge of Imagining the Timescale of Climate Change
Fiction writers who try to do justice to the vast temporal and spatial scales and the enormous complexity of climate change are faced with the problem that the phenomenon exceeds human perception and that it is not dramatic in the traditional sense. In this article we explore the formal challenges that arise when fiction takes on the temporality of climate change by examining three very different novels that seek to capture the geological timesca…
Anthropocenic Affects and Ethics in Aaron Thier's Mr. Eternity
Anthropocenic Affects and Ethics in Aaron Thier's Mr. Eternity Mahlu Mertens (bio) Introduction In the discourse on ecological mourning, "the vulnerabilities [of marginalized groups] to climatic and environmental change" and the resulting ecological grief are often ignored or absent, because, as Ashlee Cunsolo points out, these marginalized bodies "do not usually matter within policy and discourse" (2017, p. 181). Similarly most climate change fi…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropocene (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Action (physics) (1 work)