E-Co-Affectivity is a philosophical investigation of affectivity in various forms of life: photosynthesis and growth in plants, touch and trauma in bird feathers, the ontogenesis of human life through the placenta, the bare interface of human skin, and the porous materiality of soil. Combining biology, phenomenology, Ancient Greek thought, new materialisms, environmental philosophy, and affect studies, Marjolein Oele thinks through the concrete, living places that show the receptive, responsive power of living beings to be affected and to affect. She focuses on these localized interfaces to explain how affectivity emerges in places that are always evolving, creative, porous, and fluid. Every interface is material, but is also ‘more’ than its current materiality in cocreating place, time, and being. After extensively describing the effects of the milieu and community within which each example of affectivity takes place, in the final chapter Oele adds a prescriptive, ethical lens that formulates a new epoch beyond the Anthropocene, one that is sensitive to the larger ecological, communal concerns at stake.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Plants and Affectivity: The Middle-Voiced Lives of Plants
2. Animals and Affectivity:
Aisthēsis, Touch, Trauma, and Bird Feathers
3. Generative Human Affectivity: The Placenta as Place-and-Time-Making In-Between
4. Skin and Human Sapient Affectivity: Skin, Webbed Existence, Temporal Depth, and Trust
5. E-Co-Affectivity beyond the Anthropocene: On Soil and Soil Pores
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the author
Marjolein Oele is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. She is the coeditor (with Gerard Kuperus) of
Ontologies of Nature: Continental Perspectives and Environmental Reorientations.
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