De Antoni frames his experience of exorcisms and haunted places through his confrontation with the problem of whether or not spirits really exist, and whether this is a question of belief or not. He claims to be agnostic, but proposes we take these different worlds seriously, and try to examine how such ontologies emerge from embodied experience in place or "feeling with the world". Discounting psychologizations or medicalizations of spiritual experiences, De Antoni instead proposes we think of such things as emerging from affective and embodied practices in environments.
Andrea De Antoni, "Steps to an Ecology of Spirits", contributed by Emile St-Pierre, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 16 July 2019, accessed 25 August 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/steps-ecology-spirits
Critical Commentary
This blog post in the Series section of the Natureculture website was published on June 20th, 2018.