Why are we all so sensitive to touch?
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By: Caroline Lachowsky
Why are we all so sensitive to touch? Why are we all so sensitive to touch? We humans of course, but not only ... Did you know that trees and plants also have sensitivity? What ecology of the sensitive and how do we 're-touch' it?
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Why are all living things so sensitive to touch and how do we do that when we are deprived of it, today at the time of Covid 19 and social distancing? How to re-touch us, let ourselves be touched by each other ... all the others ... That is to say of course, our human brothers and sisters, but also all the others: animals and, more unexpectedly, plants, trees and plants which are also sensitive to the wind and to everything they perceive in the air and which affect them.
With Jacques Tassin , ecologist at CIRAD for his work Pour une ecologie du sensible published by Odile Jacob. He is the author of the text En confinement, Le crépuscule du tactile , heure du Covid 19, which appeared in Liberation on April 9. And Catherine Lenne , professor of plant biology at Blaise-Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand, she studies with her colleagues the sensitivity and responses of trees to mechanical stimuli.
And Christophe André , psychiatrist and psychotherapist (in telephone insert)
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