Dark Botany: The Herbarium Tales [electronic resource].

Open Humanities Press 2024

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Dark Botany activates the material and sensorial wonder of plants—their energy, their mysterious allure, their capacities and skills, their independent might. In this Wunderkammer of critical plant studies essays and plant+artworks, the herbarium emerges as a site of multiple materialities and reflexive forms of counter-narrative. Herbaria specimens come alive as assemblages, telling truths about their dark histories and darker contemporary currents, while reflecting on the complexity of texture, movement, memory, compound structure, chemical emissions and rapid evolution of plants and languages. What one discovers is that herbaria are not static: they are as vital, energetic and enigmatic as the plants in their collections—and as diverse.
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Biology
Critical Theory
Ecology

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Prudence Gibson
Sigi Jöttkandt
Marie Sierra
Anna Westbrook
Giovanni Aloi
Matthew Beach
Tamryn Bennett
Edward Colless
Ryan Gordon
Lisa Gorton
Nick Koenig
Verena Kuni
Anna M. Lawrence
Vanessa Lemm
Rebecca Mayo
Aunty Deirdre Martin
Arina Melkozernova
Elaine Miller
Jacob Morris
Anna Perdibon
Anna Madeleine Raupach
Georgina Reid
Heather Rogers
Betty Russ
Erica Seccombe
Christina Stadlbauer
Anna-Sophie Springer
Bart Vandeput
Juliann Vitullo
Maya Martin-Westheimer
Baron Chau