In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing
philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present
debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants
as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the
book uses animal studies as a way into the subject, but it does so
in unexpected ways. Upending critical approaches of biopolitical
regimes, it argues that it is plants rather than animals that are
the forgotten and abjected forms of life under humanist biopower.
Indeed, biopolitical theory has consistently sidestepped the issue
of vegetable life, and more recently, has been outright hostile to
it. Provocatively, Jeffrey T. Nealon wonders whether animal
studies, which has taken the "inventor" of biopower himself to task
for speciesism, has not misread Foucault, thereby managing to
extend humanist biopower rather than to curb its reach. Nealon is
interested in how and why this is the case. Plant Theory turns to
several other thinkers of the high theory generation in an effort
to imagine new futures for the ongoing biopolitical debate.
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