Max Wenzel Weber

In my MA thesis – “Ich bin schon jetzt nur noch eine dünne Haut…”: Erdsystem und Literatur in Marlen Haushofer’s Die Wand” – I explore the ways in which literature can intertwine with the earthsystem. I conclude that any translation of the earthsystem’s processes into literature remains futile, but nevertheless the translation of the untranslatable becomes necessary both to develop a form of modesty towards our environment and to enable any future engagement between literature and the earthsystem.

My current research interests involve the so-called Anthropocene, Gaia-theory, cybernetics and literary imaginations of the future.

• Conference report: “Backstages of Globalization: New Perspectives on Infrastructure and Power in the 20th Century”, in: H-Soz-Kult., https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-153654.
• „Leben und Schreiben im Schatten des Anthropozäns – Curt Grottewitz als Schriftsteller der ‚Kritischen Zone‘“, 76th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies, University of London (01.05.25 – 02.05.25).