ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that co-individuation and co-vulnerability are sustainable coordinates and participate in a relational Self, capable of transformation. It applies a transdisciplinary overview of the issue in the shadow of the present ‘moment of danger’, the Anthropocenic crisis. Particular references are made to the emerging plurality of ethno-narratives and ontologies, and the philosophical concept of transindividuation. The chapter proposes that taking into account how diverse humans and meta-humans agencies jointly shape ecosystemic conversations may enrich the idea of ‘individuation’, bringing to it chromatic, plural, and relational accents. Co-individuation emerges as a complex labour, a different rhythm of cognition, awakening us from the hypnotic hubris of self-referential consciousness into radical awareness beyond the great nature/culture split. The chapter also explores the renewed multidisciplinary attention to mourning, in order to refocus critical attention to the oniric dimension of history and the urgent need to reconsider its heritage though the development of historical empathy (our ‘secret appointment with past generations’), and ethical reparation as well as reconnection with the ongoing nature of life.
