For Love of the World | Andreas Weber: Ecosystems are love stories

Ecosystems are Love Stories
With a background in marine biology and philosophy, Andreas Weber proposes a 'poetic ecology', arguing that our feelings and emotions are at the foundation of our web of interconnected relationships. His keynote discusses the creative and interconnected ways of being alive.
“Love is an answer to the lack that lies at the heart of aliveness, but it does not compensate for that lack - it transforms it. Love transforms that lack into an excess that produces new contradictions; it is the luminous chasm and the ephemeral mass, freedom in impossibility, the always insufficient answer to the paradox of life - pure aliveness, experienced from inside the world.”
― Andreas Weber, Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology
Biologist and philosopher dr. Andreas Weber. In his book Enlivenment. Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene (2019), he takes us beyond Enlightenment to new insights into our interconnectedness with nature, and what the consequences are if we continue to put ourselves outside of the natural order.
For Love of the World Festival
Can we write a new story for our world? One where we live in harmony with nature, treat each other equitably and use our knowledge and technology democratically? Studium Generale TU Delft presents the For Love of the World festival, in which we invite you to join us in looking for new and different stories about the world. During this journey, we bring together technology, philosophy, and art to come to new perspectives.
We want to shape the future together with you and search for answers to the most important questions. Can we look at our place in the cosmos? How can we learn to treat the planet with more respect? And what impact does the increasing autonomy of technology have on us as humanity? We invite you to participate, to share and discover new stories together.