Biopoetics: Towards An Existential Ecology (biosemiotics)
by Andreas Weber /
2016 / English / PDF
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Meaning, feeling and expression – the experience of inwardness –
matter most in human existence. The perspective of biopoetics shows
that this experience is shared by all organisms. Being alive means
to exist through relations that have existential concern, and to
express these dimensions through the body and its gestures. All
life takes place within one poetic space which is shared between
all beings and which is accessible through subjective sensual
experience. We take part in this through our empirical
subjectivity, which arises from the experiences and needs of living
beings, and which makes them open to access and sharing in a poetic
objectivity. Biopoetics breaks free from the causal-mechanic
paradigm which made biology unable to account for mind and meaning.
Biology becomes a science of expression, connection and
subjectivity which can understand all organisms including humans as
feeling agents in a shared ecology of meaningful relations,
embedded in a symbolical and material metabolism of the biosphere.
Meaning, feeling and expression – the experience of inwardness –
matter most in human existence. The perspective of biopoetics shows
that this experience is shared by all organisms. Being alive means
to exist through relations that have existential concern, and to
express these dimensions through the body and its gestures. All
life takes place within one poetic space which is shared between
all beings and which is accessible through subjective sensual
experience. We take part in this through our empirical
subjectivity, which arises from the experiences and needs of living
beings, and which makes them open to access and sharing in a poetic
objectivity. Biopoetics breaks free from the causal-mechanic
paradigm which made biology unable to account for mind and meaning.
Biology becomes a science of expression, connection and
subjectivity which can understand all organisms including humans as
feeling agents in a shared ecology of meaningful relations,
embedded in a symbolical and material metabolism of the biosphere.