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Radical Botany : Plants and Speculative Fiction by Antónia Szabari and Natania Meeker (2019, Hardcover)

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Radical Botany : Plants and Speculative Fiction, Hardcover by Meeker, Natania; Szabari, Antónia, ISBN 0823286630, ISBN-13 9780823286638, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Radical Botany uncovers a speculative tradition that conjures new languages to grasp the life of plants in all its specificity and vigor. Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. Th traces the implications of the speculative mobilization of plants within literature and art for feminism, queer studies, and posthumanist thought.

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PublisherFordham University Press

ISBN-100823286630

ISBN-139780823286638

eBay Product ID (ePID)5038801599

Product Key Features

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRadical Botany : Plants and Speculative Fiction

SubjectMind & Body, Comparative Literature, Ecology

Publication Year2019

TypeTextbook

AuthorAntónia Szabari, Natania Meeker

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Nature, Philosophy

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight21 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width7.3 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2019-955435

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsRadical Botany is an extraordinary contribution to the burgeoning fields of plant studies and the nonhuman turn. The book succeeds beautifully in discovering and entwining an entire tradition of speculative botany that will reshape plant studies and posthumanist theory. I have no doubt this text will be eagerly devoured by readers., Radical Botany is an extraordinary contribution to the burgeoning fields of plant studies and the nonhuman turn. The book succeeds beautifully in discovering and entwining an entire tradition of speculative botany that will reshape plant studies and posthumanist theory. I have no doubt this text will be eagerly devoured by readers. ---Stacy Alaimo, author of Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times, The idea that plants are both utterly familiar and utterly alien is key to Natania Meeker and Antónia Szabari's wonderfully titled Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction ... Radical Botany is a kind of secret history of some revolutionary ways in which the speculative imagination has challenged long-held convictions about what plants are and what they are capable of doing., Radical Botany , as its name suggests, provides a cutting-edge intervention in the vegetable in literary and cultural studies., Radical Botany is an extraordinary contribution to the burgeoning fields of plant studies and the nonhuman turn. The book succeeds beautifully in discovering and entwining an entire tradition of speculative botany that will reshape plant studies and posthumanist theory. I have no doubt this text will be eagerly devoured by readers.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal809/.93353

Table Of ContentPreface vii 1. Radical Botany: An Introduction 1 2. Libertine Botany and Vegetal Modernity 28 3. Plant Societies and Enlightened Vegetality 56 4. The Inorganic Plant in the Romantic Garden 86 5. The End of the World by Other Means 114 6. Plant Horror: Love Your Own Pod 144 7. Becoming Plant Nonetheless 171 Acknowledgments 203 Notes 205 Works Cited 253 Index 269

SynopsisRadical 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., Radical Botany uncovers a speculative tradition that conjures new languages to grasp the life of plants in all its specificity and vigor. Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. The book traces the implications of the speculative mobilization of plants within literature and art for feminism, queer studies, and posthumanist thought., 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.

LC Classification NumberPN3448.S64M494 2020