E-Co-Affectivity

<p><b>Offers an interdisciplinary investigation of affectivity in various forms of life.</b></p><p><i>E-Co-Affectivity</i> 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.</p>