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Andreas Weber\xa0is a Berlin-based philosopher, biologist, and writer. He holds degrees in marine biology and cultural studies. He\xa0proposes the development of a \u201cpoetic ecology\u201d which intimately attaches our species to every being and underpins the entire range of human experience. He argues that feelings and emotions, far from being superfluous to the study of organisms, are the very foundation of life.\xa0His books in English include:\xa0Enlivenment: Towards a Fundamental Shift in the Concepts of Nature, Culture and Politics\xa0(2013);\xa0The Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling, and the Metamorphosis of Science\xa0(2016); and\xa0Biopoetics: Towards an Existential Ecology\xa0(2016). Weber regularly contributes to major newspapers and magazines, such as\xa0National Geographic\xa0and has won a number of awards for his writing.\nHis latest book and our subject today is\xa0Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology.