Introduction: Sensorial Tactics in an Era of Socioecological Collapse

In recent years, affective concerns have become increasingly central to debates in the environmental humanities. Addingto this conversation, this essay introduces the present symposium by developing the notion of sensorial tactics. With this concept, we’re referring to a deliberate organization of perceptual and affective responses that work in various ways to tackle current socioecological disasters. Engaging each contribution, the essay outlines three such tactics: affective coping strategies, post-extractivist sensibilities, and non-human sense-making. In that way, the essay aims ultimately to widen our vocabularies for affective routes to follow by developing strategies for sensing the world differently.This copy is an Author Accepted Manucript. The writing of this introduction was supported by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (2102-00187B).Janicka, I., & Skiveren, T. (2026). Introduction: Sensorial Tactics in an Era of Socioecological Collapse. Theory & Event 29(1), 83-89. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tae.2026.a978970.