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Radical Botany - Plants and Speculative Fiction (Paperback)
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Radical Botany - Plants and Speculative Fiction (Paperback)
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Winner, 2019 Science Fiction & Technoculture Studies Book Prize
Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in
the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures.
Modernity, the book claims, is defined by the idea of all life as
vegetal. Meeker and Szabari argue that the recognition of plants'
liveliness and animation, as a result of scientific discoveries
from the seventeenth century to today, has mobilized speculative
creation in fiction, cinema, and art. Plants complement and
challenge notions of human life. Radical Botany traces the
implications of the speculative mobilization of plants for
feminism, queer studies, and posthumanist thought. If, as Michael
Foucault has argued, the notion of the human was born at a
particular historical moment and is now nearing its end, Radical
Botany reveals that this origin and endpoint are deeply informed by
vegetality as a form of pre- and posthuman subjectivity. The
trajectory of speculative fiction which this book traces offers
insights into the human relationship to animate matter and the
technological mediations through which we enter into contact with
the material world. Plants profoundly shape human experience, from
early modern absolutist societies to late capitalism's
manipulations of life and the onset of climate change and attendant
mass extinction. A major intervention in critical plant studies,
Radical Botany reveals the centuries-long history by which science
and the arts have combined to posit plants as the model for all
animate life and thereby envision a different future for the
cosmos.
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