Matrixial Breath - Aesthetically Respiring into the Trauma of the Present

Day by day, the global climate crisis intensifies, yet there are little changes in the behavior of privileged societies. This book reveals that such paradoxical behavior is due to the prevalence of a narrative that considers planet Earth as a self-sustaining system, driven by a circular respiration pattern from one actor to the next.

List of contents

Introduction Part 1. Voluntary Suffocation Ch 1: Escaping the Outside Ch 2: Synchronized Bliss Ch 3: Anesthesia and the End Part 2. Matrixial Breath - The Rhythms of Feel-Knowing Aerial Ch 4: Never was Heaven Ch 5: Fragile Trans-Subjectivity Ch 6: Aerials of Subreality Part 3. Metreorologic Speculations - Towards Ettingerian Environmental Ethics Ch 7: From Respiration to Trans-Spiration Ch 8: In-Spiration Ch 9: Metreorology

About the author

Christoph Solstreif-Pirker, Ph.D., is Professor of Aesthetic Education at the University College of Teacher Education Styria (Austria), a practicing psychotherapist, and an interdisciplinary artist. His artistic and academic work focuses on performative research, encounter-investigations, painting, drawing, sound, and text. After studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and Graz University of Technology, he completed his Ph.D. in artistic research and contemporary art, followed by an M.A. in philosophy and psychoanalysis under the supervision of Bracha L. Ettinger. His dissertation, titled "Being-Together-With the World-Without-Us," explored questions of space and subjectivity in the (Post-)Anthropocene, proposing feminine-performative modes of thinking and acting in response to contemporary planetary trauma. His work has been widely recognized and published in journals such as PCS: Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, Comparative Literature Studies, Ruukku: Studies in Artistic Research, and JAR: Journal for Artistic Research.

Product details

• Assisted by: Christoph Solstreif-Pirker (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 26.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032993508
• ISBN: 978-1-032-99350-8
• No. of pages: 120
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, PHILOSOPHY / General, Climate Change, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Psychotherapy, Applied ecology, Social impact of environmental issues, Science / Environmental Science, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Breath and Breathing;philosophy