Andreas Weber

Dr. Andreas Weber is a Berlin based book and magazine writer, translator, and independent scholar. He has degrees in Marine Biology and Cultural Studies. Andreas’ work focuses on a re-evaluation of our understanding of the living. He proposes to understand organsims as subjects and hence the biosphere as a meaning-creating and poetic reality. He has put forth his ideas in several books and has contributed to major German newspapapers and magazines. He teaches at Leuphana University Lüneburg and at Berlin University of the Fine Arts. His latest book, The Biology of Wonder. Aliveness, Feeling, and the Metamorphosis of Science (New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, B.C) appears in early 2016.

Costa Rica cloud forest

Nourishing Community in Pandemic Times

Animism, the enactment and culture of interspecies reciprocity, cannot teach us how to better manage “natural objects”, but shows how to sustain a cosmos giving life to all its members. This will require us to rethink traditional sustainable practices.

May 26, 2020

Elba island

Patterns of Commoning: Reality as Commons, A Poetics of Participation for the Anthropocene

How, exactly, do the many, burgeoning posthumanist interpretations of our time fail to grasp the cosmos as a creative reality? Let us begin with the Anthropocene.

June 28, 2018

Society

The Twelve Days (and Months) of Climate Justice Day Ten: Being(s) Fully Alive: The New Science of Enlivenment and the Struggle for Climate Justice

Linking science and spirituality more closely to our own and others’ worlds, and seeing these entangled worlds through the lens of poetic objectivity is challenging – and humbling – stuff.

January 10, 2017

Towards Cultures of Aliveness: Politics and Poetics in a Postdualistic Age, an Anthropocene Manifesto

Enlightenment thinking is coming to an end. The "Anthropocene" claims to step beyond the dualism of man–nature opposition.

December 17, 2015

Basic Principles of Enlivenment: Working with Paradoxes

In the center of this stands the certainty that all lived reality, be it physiological, ecological, emotional, sociological, political, economical or artistic, is paradox.

August 28, 2013

Society

First-Person-Science: Towards a Culture of Poetic Objectivity

For the last 400 years or so science has relied on an “objectivity” provided by rational thinking and measurements.

August 15, 2013

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