He Feels Everything: On the Erotic Ecology of Andreas Weber

Andreas Weber (reprophoto)

Here we bring the text of the lecture by Luďek ČERTÍK, which he delivered at the fifth seminar of the Traveling University of Nature "Everything around me lives, feels, as I do - paths to a regenerative culture" at the Rychleby Ecocenter on August 12, 2020. In it, he presents the ideas of the leading contemporary German biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber, his concept of revival, or rather erotic ecology, which he places in the broader context of the development of biological thinking and...

Luděk Čertík: Know your feast

Val Plumwood (left) with activist and street musician Sean Kenan (1987)

The year is 1985. Australian ecophilosopher Val Plumwood (1939–2008) sets out in her small canoe on a cruise down the Erre (East Alligator) River in Australia’s Kakadu National Park during the winter monsoon rains. Nothing bad seems to happen that day – after all, Plumwood is not on the river for the first time. However, during the cruise she is unexpectedly attacked by a crocodile…

Luděk Čertík: Three poems

Ludek Certik

Luděk Čertík (born 1989 in České Budějovice) studied film history and environmental studies; he works as a program director at the Prague Short Film Festival. He occasionally writes and lectures about film, mainly the work of American-born Terrence Malick, but also about artistic nature films, and also translates and writes poetry. He has published in the magazines Film a Doba, Sedmá generace, Universum. He is a member of…