LEADER 04072oam 22005894a 450 001 9910315231903321 005 20250421142029.0 010 $a9781947447707 010 $a194744770X 024 7 $a10.21983/P3.0207.1.00 035 $a(CKB)4100000007823982 035 $a(OAPEN)1004673 035 $a(OCoLC)1100539216 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse77042 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34036 035 $a(DcWaBHL)194406 035 $a(oapen)doab34036 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007823982 100 $a20180620d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmu#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCovert Plants: Vegetal Consciousness and Agency in an Anthropocentric World 205 $a1st edition. 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2018 210 1$aEarth, Milky Way$cpunctum books$d2018 215 $a1 online resource (257 pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 215 $a1 online resource 225 0 $aBrainstorm books 311 08$a9781947447691 311 08$a1947447696 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $aCovert Plants contributes to newly emerging discourses on the implications of vegetal life for the arts and culture. This stretches to changes in our perception of ?nature? and to the adapting roles of botany, evolutionary ecology, and environmental aesthetics in the humanities. Its editors and contributors seek various expressions of vegetal life rather than the mere representation of such, and they proceed from the conviction that a rigorous approach to thinking with and through vegetal life must be interdisciplinary. At a time when urgent calls for restorative care and reparative action have been sounded for the environment, this essay volume presents a range of academic and creative perspectives, from evolutionary biology to literary theory, philosophy to poetry, which respond to the perplexing problems and paradoxes of vegetal thinking. Representations of vegetal life often include plant analogies and plant imagery. These representations have at times obscured the diversity of plant behavior and experience. Covert Plants probes the implications of vegetal life for thought and how new plant science is changing our perception of the vegetal ? around us and in us. How can we think, speak, and write about plant life without falling into human-nature dyads, or without tumbling into reductive theoretical notions about the always complex relations between cognition and action, identity and value, subject and object? A full view of this shifting perspective requires a ?stereoscopic? lens through which to view plants, but also simultaneously to alter our human-centered viewpoint. Plants are no longer the passive object of contemplation, but are increasingly resembling ?subjects,? ?stakeholders,? or ?actors.? As such, the plant now makes unprecedented demands upon the nature of contemplation itself. Moreover, the aesthetic, political, and legal implications of new knowledge regarding plants? ability to communicate, sense, and learn require intensive, cross-disciplinary investigation. By doing this, we can intervene into current attitudes to climate change and sustainability, and hopefully revise, for the better, human philosophies, ethics, and aesthetics that touch upon plant life. 606 $aEcological science, the Biosphere$2bicssc 610 $abioart 610 $aplant studies 610 $aecology 610 $aeco-psychology 610 $aenvironmental humanities 615 7$aEcological science, the Biosphere 676 $a179.1 700 $aGibson$b Prudence$01022413 702 $aBaylee$b Brits$4edt 702 $aGibson$b Prudence$4oth 702 $aBaylee$b Brits$4oth 801 0$bOAPEN 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910315231903321 996 $aCovert Plants: Vegetal Consciousness and Agency in an Anthropocentric World$92428484 997 $aUNINA