We have been told that we live in the Anthropocene, a geological age shaped by humans rather than nature. In this book, German philosopher Andreas Weber presents an alternative view of our relationship with nature, arguing--against the idea that humans control it--that humans and nature exist on a common ground of mutual transformation. He argues that there is no such thing as a dualism between nature and humans, because the fundamental dimension of existence is shared in what he calls "aliveness." Thus, the poetics that Weber proposes consists of seeing all beings in a common home of matter, desire, and imagination.