LEADER 03749nam 22005535 450 001 9910793811603321 005 20230817182708.0 010 $a0-8232-8665-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823286652 035 $a(CKB)4100000009938691 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5987156 035 $a(DE-B1597)555514 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823286652 035 $a(OCoLC)1130000631 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009938691 100 $a20200723h20192019 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRadical Botany $ePlants and Speculative Fiction /$fAntónia Szabari, Natania Meeker 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$d©2019 215 $a1 online resource (297 pages) 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tChapter 1. Radical botany: an introduction --$tChapter 2. Libertine botany and vegetal modernity --$tChapter 3. Plant societies and enlightened vegetality --$tChapter 4. The inorganic plant in the romantic garden --$tChapter 5. The end of the world by other means --$tChapter 6. Plant horror: love your own pod --$tChapter 7. Becoming plant nonetheless --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tWorks cited --$tIndex 330 $aRadical 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. 606 $aPlants in literature 606 $aPlants in motion pictures 606 $aSpeculative fiction$xHistory and criticism 610 $aPlant fiction. 610 $acritical plant studies. 610 $amaterialisms. 610 $aposthumanism. 610 $aspeculative literature and philosophy. 610 $avegetal ontology. 615 0$aPlants in literature. 615 0$aPlants in motion pictures. 615 0$aSpeculative fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.93353 700 $aMeeker$b Natania$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01143014 702 $aSzabari$b Antónia$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793811603321 996 $aRadical Botany$93765661 997 $aUNINA