UID:
almahu_9949701060102882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004375253
Series Statement:
Critical plant studies : philosophy, literature, culture, Volume 5
Content:
Why Look at Plants? proposes a thought-provoking and fascinating look into the emerging cultural politics of plant-presence in contemporary art. Through the original contributions of artists, scholars, and curators who have creatively engaged with the ultimate otherness of plants in their work, this volume maps and problematizes new intra-active, agential interconnectedness involving human-non-human biosystems central to artistic and philosophical discourses of the Anthropocene. Plant's fixity, perceived passivity, and resilient silence have relegated the vegetal world to the cultural background of human civilization. However, the recent emergence of plants in the gallery space constitutes a wake-up-call to reappraise this relationship at a time of deep ecological and ontological crisis. Why Look at Plants? challenges readers' pre-established notions through a diverse gathering of insights, stories, experiences, perspectives, and arguments encompassing multiple disciplines, media, and methodologies.
Note:
Preliminary Material --
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Introduction: Why Look at Plants? /
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1 Lost in the Post-Sublime Forest /
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2 The Humblest Props Now Play a Role /
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3 Ungrid-able Ecologies: Becoming Sensor in a Black Oak Savannah /
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4 An Open Book of Grass /
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5 Trees: Upside-Down, Inside-Out, and Moving /
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6 Animation, Animism ... Dukun Dukun and DNA /
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7 Tree Wound Portraits /
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8 Contested Sites: Forest as Uncommon Ground /
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9 Quercus velutina, Art of Fiction, No. 11111011 /
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10 Falling from Grace /
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11 Hortus Conclusus: The Garden of Earthly Mind /
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12 Eden's Heirs: Biopolitics and Vegetal Affinities in the Gardens of Literature /
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13 Thoreau's Beans /
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14 The Greenhouse Effects /
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15 Solarise /
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16 The Glass Shields the Eyes of the Plant: Darwin's Glasshouse Study /
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17 The Lichen Museum /
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18 Hyperplant Shelf-Life /
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19 Life in the Aisles /
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20 Greenbots Where the Grass Is Greener: An Interview with Katherine Behar /
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21 Home Depot Throwing Out Plants /
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22 Presence, Bareness, and Being-With /
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23 Houseplants as Fictional Subjects /
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24 Seeing Green: The Climbing Other /
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25 Plant Radio /
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26 Psychoactives and Biogenetics /
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27 Of Plants and Robots: Art, Architecture and Technoscience for Mixed Societies /
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28 Boundary Plants /
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29 The Illustrated Herbal /
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30 (Brief) Encounters /
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31 Places of Maybe: Plants "Making Do" Without the Belly of the Beast /
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32 The Neophyte /
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33 Herbarium Perrine: Interview with Mark Dion /
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34 Burning Flowers: Interview with Mat Collishaw /
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35 A Program for Plants: In Conversation, Coda /
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Bibliography --
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Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Why Look at Plants? Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, [2019], ISBN 9789004375246
Language:
English
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