Title & Author:

Vegetal entwinements in philosophy and art : a reader / edited by Giovanni Aloi and Michael Marder.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
©2023

Description:

xix, 627 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The plant: a stranger / Stefano Mancuso and Alessandra Viola -- A weed is a plant out of place / Allegra Pesenti -- Nuučaan̓uł plants and habitats as reflected in oral traditions: since Raven and Thunderbird roamed / Marlene Atleo (ʔehʔeh nah tuu kwiss) -- Of other spaces: (brief) encounters / Giovanni Aloi -- Adventures in phytophenomenology / David Wood -- Introduction to plant-thinking / Michael Marder -- Seeds and plants as my teachers of ethics / Vandana Shiva -- Invasive species, indigenous stewards, and vulnerability discourse / Nicholas J. Reo, Kyle Whyte, Darren Ranco, Jodi Brandt, Emily Blackmer, and Braden Elliott -- Dissemination, rhizomes, efflorescence: the legacy of the vegetative soul in twentieth-century thought / Elaine Miller -- The colour green / Prudence Gibson -- Preventing plant blindness / James H. Wandersee and Elisabeth E. Schussler -- Intelligence and consciousness / Anthony Trewavas -- The 1970s plant craze / Teresa Castro -- Floral sensations: plant biopolitics / Catriona A. H. Sandilands -- Maimonides' palm tree / Michael Marder -- Hermeneutics of trees in an African context: enriching the understanding of the environment "for the common heritage of humankind" / Angela Roothan -- The human bumblebee / H=Michael Pollan -- Cosmologies: perspectivism / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro -- t Blossoming sex: floral transpositions in the works of Natalia LL and Zofia Kulik / Monika Bakke -- Estado vegetal / Manuela Infante and Marcela Salinas -- Trees in shallow time / Mark Payne -- To hear plants speak / Michael Marder -- A...mazing pea / Monica Gagliano -- Ruderal societies / Lois Weinberger -- Seeking refuge in the vegetal world / Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder -- Concepts of ethnomedicine / Dan Choffnes -- Botanical decolonization : the defense of cultivars / Giovanni Aloi -- The living thought / Eduardo Kohn -- The time travelers: im/possibilities of return / Elaine Gan -- Conversation: the intelligence of plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer and Krista Tippett -- -- The green belt movement / Wangari Maathai -- Sorely visible: plants, roots, and national identity / Giovanni Aloi.

Summary:

"A reader of previously published and new material (interviews with artists and theorists) devoted to the new and growing field of critical plant studies, and a reader that practices what it covers by arranging and intertwining its contents through a non-hierarchical and articulated manner that allow for different, alternate reading pathways"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780262047791 hardcover
0262047799 hardcover

Subject:

Plants (Philosophy)
Nature (Aesthetics)
Plantes (Philosophie)
Nature (Esthétique)
Planten.
Filosofie.
Kunst.

Added entries:

Aloi, Giovanni, editor.
Marder, Michael, 1980- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319590
Call No.: 319590
Copy: 1
Status: Available