This experimental article departs from the current controversy of the Anthropocene to reflect on alternatives to modern Western rationality, highlighting the need to develop non-modern ontologies to face the current climate and environmental crisis. A series of heterogeneous examples are used – from contemplative practices, altered states of consciousness to planetary models – to reflect on the...
Este artigo oferece um mapeamento provisório de alguns dos impactos afetivos do Antropoceno, uma época geológica proposta para ilustrar a indissociabilidade entre agência humana e fenómenos planetários. O artigo decorre de dois projetos de investigação: um doutoramento que levou a cabo uma análise ontológica de práticas meditativas Vipassana e Zen em França, Portugal e Reino Unido e um projeto...
The present proliferation of alternative and non-western practices challenges the way how modern selves are enacted, the distinction between ancient and contemporary, and obliges us to rethink the ways our bodies and minds are produced. By mingling the care of the self and self knowledge, some technologies of the self offer interesting paths to redefine and change our selves, questioning the...