ABSTRACT
This essay proposes a meaning of love not only based on an intersubjective background but extending its relational logic in order to include our relation to nature. The author claims that the vocabulary we have at our disposal is still based not only on a rigid concept of identity, but also on a narrow sense of anthropocentric perspective. Limited by this vocabulary, political emotions are moved by a primordial sense of belonging that constitutes ‘us’ and ‘them’ – not only with regard to different cultures, but also in the very opposition between culture and nature. In addition, this essay discusses the ways in which we can build affects that are not only situated in a sense of post-identity widening, but that can be directed towards a sense of social love as world care; in other words, the goal is to shift the emphasis from a human-centred affective circulation of love to a scope that more closely resembles (and overcomes) what has been called anthropocenic. Bringing the attention to the political mediation of affect, the essay extends the semantic horizon, inviting us to live imagetically and aesthetically, with different ways of being and saying the world.
