ABSTRACT

This chapter presents conjure up imaginary landscapes by means of disparate domains. It also presents the notions of force fields, vectors and direction of attention. The framework of force fields, vectors and direction of attention, as well as the ecological phenomenology they are based on, are necessary to make sense of the way that non-human and human phenomena are intermingled. The relationships actors engage in have a direction and magnitude: they are vectors. The chapter argues that the notion of vectors is more precise than that of 'relation', because even in a network what is really going on is better described by vectors and directions of attention, in fields of forces. For ecological phenomenology, the world is a continuous field of constitutive relationships and all actors participate in the ongoing formation of this common world.