Radical Botany : Plants and Speculative Fiction / / Antónia Szabari, Natania Meeker

• Autore: Meeker Natania
• Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 pages)
• Disciplina: 809.93353
• Soggetto topico: Plants in literature; Plants in motion pictures; Speculative fiction - History and criticism
• Soggetto non controllato: Plant fiction; critical plant studies; materialisms; posthumanism; speculative literature and philosophy; vegetal ontology
• Persona (resp. second.): SzabariAntónia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Radical botany: an introduction -- Chapter 2. Libertine botany and vegetal modernity -- Chapter 3. Plant societies and enlightened vegetality -- Chapter 4. The inorganic plant in the romantic garden -- Chapter 5. The end of the world by other means -- Chapter 6. Plant horror: love your own pod -- Chapter 7. Becoming plant nonetheless -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Radical Botany
• ISBN: 0-8232-8665-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910793811603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II