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Mobility | Welcome to the Anthropocene
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
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Clock of the Long Now | Welcome to the Anthropocene
To help imagine longer temporal perspectives, a giant clock ticking every ten seconds was built in Texas in 1999. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
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Introduction to the Exhibition | Human-Nature Relations in German Literature: A Curated Stroll
This virtual exhibition features, in English translation, short excerpts from German-language literary texts that address human-nature entanglements. The aim is to show how literature can contribute to understanding and problematizing the relation between humans and nonhuman nature. What aspects of human-nature relations are addressed, at what point in literary history, and how are they shaped poetically? For the German-language version of this exhibition, click here.
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Letter from Eliza Encheva to Charles Eisenstein | Beyond Doom and Gloom
A chapter of the virtual exhibition “Beyond Doom and Gloom: An Exploration through Letters,” this letter discusses an alternative understanding of the crisis of Western societies. The exhibition is curated by environmental educator Elin Kelsey.
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Einführung in die Ausstellung | Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur
This German-language version of Sabine Wilke’s virtual exhibition features short excerpts from German-language literary texts that address human-nature entanglements. The aim is to show how literature can contribute to understanding and problematizing the relation between humans and nonhuman nature. What aspects of human-nature relations are addressed, at what point in literary history, and how are they shaped poetically? For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.
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Humans, Animals, and Nature: Ideas of a Natural and Harmonious (Co-)Existence | Satirical Glimpses of the Cultural History of Vegetarianism
In the nineteenth century, there was much debate about the question of which way of living could be regarded as “natural.” Caricatures on vegetarianism mock ideas of the “natural” relationship between animal and man, and draft utopian as well as dystopian visions of a vegetarian future.
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Reader Response: Richard Christian | Beyond Doom and Gloom
A chapter of the virtual exhibition “Beyond Doom and Gloom: An Exploration through Letters,” this letter discusses reasons for consolation in the age of climate change. The exhibition is curated by environmental educator Elin Kelsey.
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Transformation of Landscapes | Human-Nature Relations in German Literature: A Curated Stroll
In this chapter of her virtual exhibition “Human-Nature Relations in German Literature,” Sabine Wilke discusses texts that register transformations of landscapes or take a position on their causes. For the German-language version of this exhibition, click here.