Elemental-Embodied Thinking for a New Era

Foreword
Bibliography
Contents
Chapter 1: Elemental-Embodied Thinking for a New Era: Introduction to the Volume
	The Indigenous, the Embodied-Experiential and the Elemental Turn
	The Elemental
	The Embodied-Experiental
	The Indigenous
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: Tribal Elemental Ontology
	Introduction
	Truth and Tribal “Lifeways”
	Ao Elemental Ontology
	In Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: Elements of Slovenian Indigenous Religion
	On the Reconstruction of Slovenian Pre-Christian Religious Tradition
	Elements of Slovenian Indigenous Religion
	Appendix: Manifesto for a Free Earth
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: Experiencing Elemental Embodiment: (Re) visiting Latvian Folklore on Life and Nature
	Stepping on the Path of Alternate Worldings for the Future
	Our Stone Beginnings
	Are the Stones Still Alive?
	Silver Forests Not to Be Touched
		Where Did All the Trees Go?
	A Final Crossing: Dendro-Techno-Morphic Transformation
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: The Glacier and Me: Understanding the Human Being in the Anthropocene
	Bibliography
Chapter 6: How Deep Is Your Love or, How Thinking as Such Defies the Weight(s) of Imperialism
	Bibliography
Chapter 7: A Biosemiotic Perspective on the Human Condition and the Environmental Crisis
	Introduction
	The Human Condition as Traditionally Conceived
	Semiotic Agency in Humans and Non-humans
	The Materiality of the Environmental Crisis
	Experiential Aspects of the Environmental Crisis
	The Human Condition Reconsidered
	Paths Towards Sustainable Futures
	Bibliography
Chapter 8: The Gravity of Our Situation: On Acrophobia and Eco-Paralysis
	From Elements to Interactions
	A Sense of Gravity
	Phenomenological Disembodiment
	Uncomfortable Space
	Staring into the Abyss, or, Eyes on the Horizon
	Bibliography
Chapter 9: Vegetal Pedagogy
	Earth-Children
	Plant-Perception
	Plant-Listening
	Coda
	Bibliography
Chapter 10: Tasting, Breathing, Eating—Acknowledging Basic Embodied Experience as a Vital Source for Transformation
	Tasting
	Pitying
	Struggling with Language
	Thinking with the Body to Grasp Meaning
	Body-Environment—A Generative Process
	Experiencing Language—Re-freshing Meaning Beyond De-construction
	Hunger for Transformation
	Bibliography
Chapter 11: Dancing with the Stars: Learning to Move like the Earthlings We Are
	On Earth We’re Always Awkward
	Being and Ruin
	A Dance of Recognition, Reconnection, and Reanimation
	Human, Animal, Elemental
	Bibliography
Chapter 12: The Embodied, Experiential and Elemental Turn in Environmental Ethics
	The Experiential and Embodied Turn
	Discomfort
	Empathic Understanding
	Aesthetic and Calculative Approaches
	Nature, Environment, Life and the Body
	From Disconnection to Connection: Lived Experience and Felt Sense
	Exercises in Listening and Felt Sensing
	Embodied, Elemental Thinking in Research
	Bibliograpy
Index