Imminania: a powerful feeling of sorrow for what is about to happen, deep sorrow for the future. (im-in-an-ya) From imminent; ‘about to occur’ (Latin imminēns: to overhang) and the Greek ania (a form of algia, Greek; algea) that is characterised by the emotion of sorrow or sadness). From the Greek, Ania (Ἀνία – “sorrow”). We
Category: psychoterratic
The Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus … Greek polios, ‘grey’, cephalus, ‘head’) lives in a big colony near Tocal. I have been thinking about them lately as bats and viruses have been in the news. The history of human interaction with Flying foxes is a curious mixture ranging from chiroptophobia (fear of bats), to forms of
I preferentially use the ancient Greek ‘sumbios’ for a family of new concepts I am developing. The term ‘symbiosis’ is a New Latin and German construction of the scientific community in Germany around the late 1800s (although some identify its first use from around 1622). According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, the modern term ‘symbiosis’
If I live to be one hundred years of age, it is my hope that my life will come to exemplify a neologism that is best defined as sumbiotude, or the state of living together. Sumbiotude is the exact opposite of solitude: instead of contemplating life in isolation, sumbiotude involves contemplation and completion of a
The pain and distress felt when one is in a state of forced isolation during a pandemic or any other event that requires non-voluntary or reluctant social isolation. The feeling of desolation when detached from your usual human-built landscape and the strange loneliness felt when the city, the village, the streets are virtually empty of
Meuavalent: The resolution of opposing sets of emotions during a time of crisis and/or disaster. For example, the current need to move from the emotions of the Anthropocene to the emotions of the Symbiocene, from terraphthoran emotions to terranasciant emotions. Right now (April 2020) humans are in a meuavalent moment in our history where in
Global Dread The experiences of angst, dread, nausea and despair are commonly associated with the writings of the existentialist philosophers such as Sartre and Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard wrote The Concept of Dread in 1844, but it was published in English in 1944. Kierkegaard’s dread was prompted by the tension created in human affairs by “original sin”,
We need to be more precise about the type of killing (cide) that is going on. Ecocide (the death of ecosystems), tierracide (Earth murder) and meuacide (the extinction of emotions) are now allowing nuanced scale and the non-material to be identified as targets of the cides (along with biocide, arborcide, fungicide, insecticide, etc etc). Omnicide
Meuacide is defined as the extinction of emotions: (From meuə– an Indo-European root for words such as remove, motion and emotion plus cide, meaning to kill). Caused by forces that, for example, destroy psychological, cultural and biophysical diversity. As rich and diverse emotional connections to place and home at all scales are erased they are replaced with
The Australians, having been sound asleep for too long, are being rudely awakened as the smoke alarm goes off. The massive and deadly wildfires in Australia have changed … everything and no longer can denial and delay be used to support the status quo. In Earth Emotions, I argue that a shift in the baseline
