#andreas weber

[oozins]

life has an inner side

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[nousrose]

Openness must always take on fear. Openness to the shadows, one's own and the world's. Openness means accepting the holes and tears without lamenting them. Having curiosity for what might come. Accepting that this world is a terrain of transformation, and that there is no transformation that does not also hurt. This pain is part of reality. Every experience is one of being wounded by reality, but also, unavoidably, one of being transformed by reality. And on the other hand, it transforms reality into something that is entirely one's own.

Matter & Desire: An Erotic Ecology

Andreas Weber

#quote #andreas weber #philosophy

[beguines]

You have to touch me in order for me to touch you. And you only feel me because you are also feeling yourself at the spot where I am exploring your boundary with my fingertips. Only by feeling myself can I feel you. And only by feeling you do I feel myself. To be sure, I exist before I have touched you: I am already a subject with a body. But I am conscious of this body to a much greater extent insofar as I can allow it to be touched by your body and thereby feel myself. Both touches are inseparable from one another. They are bodily, materially, physically inseparable and can only occur simultaneously. By touching you, I must open myself up to be touched by you. In order to be able to open myself up, I must be able to open myself to someone: I must allow a concrete other to touch my boundary.

Andreas Weber, Matter & Desire: An Erotic Ecology, trans. Rory Bradley

#andreas weber #matter & desire

[lowcountry-gothic]

Today, we know that bees can feel euphoric or depressed and that fruit flies suffer with chronic pain if injured. We know that plants feel, too. If you feel what makes you thrive and what is better to avoid, you are a subject, an alive being whose sensitivity to the tactile world means everything to its existence. We are only human subjects because we are feeling biological selves entangled in a web of biotic relations. Our humanity connects us with life. It does not separate us, as is the mainstream belief. It’s worth mentioning that animism, which says that the world is peopled by persons or subjects with whom we share a basic level of embodied experience, is supported by this new biological research. This is fascinating, and deeply humbling.

​Andreas Weber, “The Poetics of Ecology”

#quotes #andreas weber #sentience #humanity #life #animism #mysticism #bees #plants

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

David Hockney (English, born 1937) "Garrowby Hill," 1998 Oil on canvas 60 x 76 in

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To be in the center is to be alive. To be alive is to surrender to the reality of a bodily existence that is never truly at peace and that gives birth to poetry and beauty out of this uncertainty.

- Andreas Weber, Matter & Desire: An Erotic Ecology, trans. Rory Bradley

[beguines]

#David Hockney #about art #Garrowby Hill #quotes #Andreas Weber #Matter and Desire #beguines #beauty #poetry

[soracities]

Want to share a line from a modern philosophy book I've been reading, the book has wonderful prose and ideas and I thought you'd love this:

"Thr emitted and exhaled carbon dioxide is not the exhaust of combusted fuel, as in a motor. The carbon atom does not come from the ingested nourishment. It comes from somewhere else, from the cell itself, from the cell's own body.

So metabolism means: I subsist on what becomes my body, and I exhale into the air what was my body. I am the grain of the field that died for me, and I die constantly and transform myself into what the plants inhale, such that my body becomes their new bodies."

-- Matter & Desire: an Erotic Ecology, Andreas Weber

oh i do love this. i'm so touched you thought of me and shared this, thank you endlessly!

#'erotic ecology' this is absolutely up my alley #thank you thank you thank you #ask #birdyreverie #andreas weber #life everlasting #to read #archive

[infinitesofnought]

Love is not a feeling, but the characteristic of a productive relationship. Failing to understand this is our great error in a time when all of us are chasing love as a goal, but finding only an extraordinary lack of love, for which we then blame ourselves. Our misunderstanding of love continues to make this situation worse. A world in which love exists in fantasies but has no actual potency loses the ability to facilitate fair negotiations, bestow meaning, or produce anything other than purely monetary wealth.

– Andreas Weber, Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology

#it cannot give birth to anything living #love #andreas weber

[deunmundoraro-blog]

SINGING ALONG

'If a living being is not an insensate machine but rather is animated by values and meanings, then these qualities are observable. Meaning makes itself manifest in the body. The values that an organism follows are not abstract. They actually guide a body's development and coherence, whether the body is as complex as a human being or as small as a single cell. Feeling is never invisible; it takes shape and manifests as form everywhere in nature. Nature can, therefore, be viewed as feeling unfurled, a living reality in front and amidst us.'

Andreas Weber, 'The biology of Wonder'

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[weirdlookindog]

Paul Andreas Weber (1893-1980) - Auftakt (Prelude), c. 1931-1932

#paul andreas weber #auftakt #prelude #death in art #art #illustration

[huariqueje]

2 men reading - Andreas Paul Weber

German , 1893-1980

Lithograph , 39 x 46 cm.

#Andreas Paul Weber #german artist #men reading #reading art

[silkygermanboy]

Source Instagram Story Iza Kova: 25.06.2023

#kai havertz #sophia weber #mateo kovačić #andreas christensen #katrine fogtfriis #Iza kovačić

[imperfectfragilediary]

L'Uomo Vogue March 2006

Andreas Wilson by Bruce Weber

Styled by Joe McKenna

#L'Uomo Vogue #Andreas Wilson #Bruce Weber #Joe McKenna

[d0cnada]

Andreas Paul Weber

[beguines]

In erotic ecology, the feeling of joy is an integral component part of a flourishing ecosystem. Every relationship within the network of life produces meaning, because for the creatures concerned, it involves their whole lives—their existential desire to inhabit a body as a self and to continue unfolding that self. Through this experience—and this is precisely what makes it erotic—every creature can perceive its reflection in every other, because we all have a sensitive, vulnerable body that depends as much on bonds as on the air we breathe. According to this deep principle, we know how other beings feel, because they have bodies like we do.

The affection of this body is mercy, not greed.

Andreas Weber, Matter & Desire: An Erotic Ecology, trans. Rory Bradley

#andreas weber #matter & desire

[lowcountry-gothic]

Among the many things our civilisation is afraid of, death is at the centre. We are afraid to fall back into this allegedly deserted world of mute objects. But death means becoming edible again; it means becoming compost, mycelium, nitrogen and so on, ultimately putting yourself in service to life. If we look at the metabolism of a living cell, we see that it is constantly decaying. It breaks down and is built again. That’s precisely the core of your aliveness: putting yourself together again. Undying. But not avoiding death. Immortality, which is so worshipped by our civilisation, is the biggest ecological mistake you can make. Death is an integral part of life, as is birth. Every breath mediates the two – literally. You could label that mediation with radionuclides and see that your body gradually dies over into the bodies of the plants in your garden. If you understand this cosmos as fundamentally alive, you’ll see that there is no way out of this life. There is just a continuous unravelling into otherness. Death is metamorphosis. Death is becoming kin with the earth. It is intimate ecological embrace. The system of living relationships only works because everyone is edible. That’s the mystery, and one we must yield to.

​Andreas Weber, “The Poetics of Ecology”

#quotes #andreas weber #civilization #death #life #ecology #mysticism

[amorous-grey]

#kai havertz #mateo kovacic #andreas christensen #sophia weber #izabel kovacic