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E-book Covert Plants : Vegetal Consciousness and Agency in an Anthropocentric World
Plants are often considered of secondary importance to ani-mal or even insect species, even though they are equally threat-ened by rising temperatures and changing ecologies and function as cornerstones of any given ecology. Plants are vital resources for understanding current and future ecologies, and our parallel human culture and society. We hope to contribute to the revalu-ation of the significance of plant life through foregrounding the importance of vegetal life for humanistic enquiry across disci-plines. This requires updating our perception and understand-ing of plant life, by keeping abreast of ongoing discoveries in plant science and registering the philosophical effects of knowl-edge. The conceptual regimes that dictate the relations between objects, subjects, and the ‘natural world’ have stifled a vocabulary and theoretical apparatus that might emerge from the vegetal world. We need to develop strategies to think, speak, and write about plant life without falling into human–nature dyads, or without tumbling into reductive theoretical notions about rela-tions between cognition and action, identity and value, subject and object.
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