Abstract

This paper is an expanded version of my presentation at the PRIN-PNRR International Conference “ATMOS and PEA: Atmospheres of Objects, Places and Events” (University of Genoa, November 2024). It investigates the relation between emotional atmospheres and personal subjectivity by articulating a theoretical bridge between Husserlian phenomenology and Tonino Griffero's atmospherology. First, I explore Husserl’s theory of emotion, which I refer to as conjunctivism, where emotional atmospheres emerge from the subject’s intentional and motivational stratifications. Then, I turn to Tonino Griffero’s approach, referring to it as disjunctivism, which conceptualizes atmospheres as quasi-objective affective powers spatialized in the world independently from the subject's constitution. In the final section, I problematize the normative implications of this externalist theory arguing instead for a correlationist paradigm, which reframes dissonance not as error, but as a site of subjective affirmation.