Exosophy Research · Research article
The Somatic Anthropocene: Body, Interoception, and Planetary Crisis
Body, Interoception, and Planetary Crisis
The article reframes the Anthropocene as not only a crisis of carbon, capital and technology, but also a crisis of embodied mediation. It proposes the Somatic Anthropocene feedback loop and introduces the Somatic Restitution Index as a preliminary multidimensional framework requiring empirical validation.
Contribution
A conceptual framework proposing that bodily dysregulation may mediate and amplify ecological crisis through interoception, well-being, nature connectedness and compensatory consumption.
The article reframes the Anthropocene as not only a crisis of carbon, capital and technology, but also a crisis of embodied mediation. It proposes the Somatic Anthropocene feedback loop and introduces the Somatic Restitution Index as a preliminary multidimensional framework requiring empirical validation.
Evidence status and boundary
Narrative conceptual synthesis; primarily L1-L4, with speculative notes clearly marked.
The framework is not monocausal, anti-technology or a replacement for political-economic explanations. The proposed Somatic Restitution Index requires empirical validation.
Relationship within the two-part project
This article is the scientific-conceptual part of a two-part research project. Its companion essay develops the philosophical and phenomenological interpretation.
Open the related work: Axial Consciousness and the Somatic Anthropocene