Radici/Decostruzione: L'ambiente terrestre di Paul Celan

This article offers an interpretation of Paul Celan's textscape "In der Luft" from Die Niemandsrose [The No-One's-Rose, 1963] in continuity with materialist or new-materialist environmental philosophy (in particular, Clement, Haraway, Tsing, Barad, and Pinkus). Under this lens Celan's text performs the deconstruction of models of belonging based on nationalist symbols like the roots, and traces alternative models of belonging. I underline that these - aerial, sympoietic - models of coalescence or in Italian “concrescenza” draw on lyrical and discursive traditions that do not relegate the problem of naming non-human life-forms to the field of science. Rather, this materialistic use of language through poetry opens up debates on matter and energy, even atomic energy, as other texts by Celan like the "microliths" in prose (Mikrolithen, 2005) and "Ortwechsel" ("Site-change" in Zeitgehoft [Time Enclosed, 1976]) also show.