»Mein Genie ist in meinen Nüstern«

Jongen, Marc

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“…Atmospheres are permanently present like a seductive patina of things, aura, ambiance, or the quality of air—something that surrounds and envelopes us, determining our relationships with the world (Tellenbach, 1968, 61). Nevertheless, an atmosphere ‘can neither be read, nor perceived sensually, nor actually understood—it, therefore, has no parts into which it can be analytically segmented—rather, it will be experienced as a whole in one step—or else: sensed [ gewittert ]’ (Jongen, 2012, 76; emphasis in original) 2 . This ephemerality and instability generate methodological difficulties and the necessity to renounce established methodological approaches such as hermeneutics or deconstruction.…”

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Aerial withdrawal: An atmospheric reading of Monika Maron's Flugasche

Szczepaniak

2023

Orbis Litterarum

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In Monika Maron's Flugasche (1981)—the first novel from the GDR to deal with environmental issues—the poisoned atmosphere in the city of B. functions as an affective centre, around which emotions, actions and reactions of the main protagonist as well as of the other characters revolve. The journalist Josefa Nadler falls into the sphere of the environmental catastrophe and is overwhelmed by the atmospheric power of this meaningful situation. The corporeal experience of being exposed to subtle environmental violence, which has devastating consequences for the city of B. and debilitating effects on its inhabitants, evokes feelings such as fear, anger, shame and compassion. Moreover, it develops into a driving force for thoughts, decisions, commitment and resistance against the unfair air distribution, accompanied by a sense of powerlessness. The aim of the article is a re‐reading of the novel with a central focus on the largely non‐representational, affective and meteorological elemental spacetimes, which can not only be felt or bodily experienced but also designed or engineered in order to produce a certain time‐bound structure of feeling, for example, an oppressive climate of fear.

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Section: Atmospheresmentioning

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Aerial withdrawal: An atmospheric reading of Monika Maron's Flugasche

Szczepaniak

2023

Orbis Litterarum

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»Mein Genie ist in meinen Nüstern«

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Aerial withdrawal: An atmospheric reading of Monika Maron's Flugasche

Aerial withdrawal: An atmospheric reading of Monika Maron's Flugasche

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