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The Emotional Turn – Vulnerability as a Practice of Knowledge
In the face of an exhausted Earth and increasingly abstract thinking, a profound shift is underway — not merely in academia but in the very fabric of how we relate to the world: the Emotional Turn. It marks a move toward ways of understanding where feeling, sensing, and affective connectedness are not disturbances of rational thought, but fundamental forms of world engagement. As planetary tipping points like the potential slowdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) threaten Earth’s physical stability, they also shake an inner balance: our relationship with the world.
Dialogical Aesthetics in the Anthropocene sees this double crisis — ecological and existential — as an invitation to a new practice of perception: poetic, embodied, relational. Philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti once said that real revolution begins with a fundamental change in perception, not external conditions. Similarly, contemporary thinkers like Uwe Voigt interpret the Anthropocene as a spiritual crisis: not only a breakdown of ecosystems but a breakdown of our attention, of how we feel the world.
In this view, vulnerability and emotional responsiveness become foundational modes of perceiving an interconnected reality. Feeling is not a private inner state — it is an event that arises between self and world. Art, in this expanded sense, is no longer about illustrating something external; it becomes an encounter — a gesture, a forest's rustle, a silent gaze — each an invitation to respond, and in responding, to be ethically touched.
Far from sentimentality, this emotional turn fosters an ethic of resonance: a way of resisting alienation and domination by cultivating attentiveness, gratitude, and a tender sense of responsibility. Facing the tipping points ahead — ecological, social, existential — we urgently need spaces where such embodied perception is practiced and nurtured. The task is clear: To feel the world breathing with us, and to let this shared breath guide new forms of living, knowing, and creating.
About the project: Dialogical Aesthetics in the Anthropocene
Dialogical Aesthetics in the Anthropocene is an emerging research and creative initiative exploring how art, perception, and emotional resonance can renew our relationship with a more-than-human world. It seeks to develop practices that move beyond detached observation — toward felt, relational knowing, where sensing the Earth's life becomes a foundation for ecological stewardship, social imagination, and cultural transformation.
In workshops, writings, and experimental formats, the project invites participants to experience the world as an active dialogue, not a resource to manage but a living reality to listen and respond to — tenderly, courageously, creatively. Complementing this, the mobile project space “wundersam” extends these ideas into everyday life: It is a traveling platform that explores felt encounters with nature as a living practice — through artistic, philosophical, and sensuous approaches. Wundersam invites people to rediscover attentiveness, relational presence, and wonder as forms of ecological belonging — wherever they are. Together, Dialogical Aesthetics and wundersam create a network of spaces where feeling becomes a way of knowing — and where artistic creation becomes a quiet, radical act of care for the Earth.
Dialogical Aesthetics in the Anthropocene sees this double crisis — ecological and existential — as an invitation to a new practice of perception: poetic, embodied, relational. Philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti once said that real revolution begins with a fundamental change in perception, not external conditions. Similarly, contemporary thinkers like Uwe Voigt interpret the Anthropocene as a spiritual crisis: not only a breakdown of ecosystems but a breakdown of our attention, of how we feel the world.
In this view, vulnerability and emotional responsiveness become foundational modes of perceiving an interconnected reality. Feeling is not a private inner state — it is an event that arises between self and world. Art, in this expanded sense, is no longer about illustrating something external; it becomes an encounter — a gesture, a forest's rustle, a silent gaze — each an invitation to respond, and in responding, to be ethically touched.
Far from sentimentality, this emotional turn fosters an ethic of resonance: a way of resisting alienation and domination by cultivating attentiveness, gratitude, and a tender sense of responsibility. Facing the tipping points ahead — ecological, social, existential — we urgently need spaces where such embodied perception is practiced and nurtured. The task is clear: To feel the world breathing with us, and to let this shared breath guide new forms of living, knowing, and creating.
About the project: Dialogical Aesthetics in the Anthropocene
Dialogical Aesthetics in the Anthropocene is an emerging research and creative initiative exploring how art, perception, and emotional resonance can renew our relationship with a more-than-human world. It seeks to develop practices that move beyond detached observation — toward felt, relational knowing, where sensing the Earth's life becomes a foundation for ecological stewardship, social imagination, and cultural transformation.
In workshops, writings, and experimental formats, the project invites participants to experience the world as an active dialogue, not a resource to manage but a living reality to listen and respond to — tenderly, courageously, creatively. Complementing this, the mobile project space “wundersam” extends these ideas into everyday life: It is a traveling platform that explores felt encounters with nature as a living practice — through artistic, philosophical, and sensuous approaches. Wundersam invites people to rediscover attentiveness, relational presence, and wonder as forms of ecological belonging — wherever they are. Together, Dialogical Aesthetics and wundersam create a network of spaces where feeling becomes a way of knowing — and where artistic creation becomes a quiet, radical act of care for the Earth.
