{"product_id":"radical-botany-plants-and-speculative-fiction-paperback","title":"Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNatania Meeker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAntónia Szabari\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2019 Science Fiction \u0026amp; Technoculture Studies Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRadical Botany\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePlants complement and challenge notions of human life. \u003ci\u003eRadical Botany\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eRadical Botany\u003c\/i\u003e reveals that this origin and endpoint are deeply informed by vegetality as a form of pre- and posthuman subjectivity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA major intervention in critical plant studies, \u003ci\u003eRadical Botany\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2019 Science Fiction \u0026amp; Technoculture Studies Book Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRadical Botany\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eExposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRadical Botany\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePlants complement and challenge notions of human life. \u003ci\u003eRadical Botany\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eRadical Botany\u003c\/i\u003e reveals that this origin and endpoint are deeply informed by vegetality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA major intervention in critical plant studies, \u003ci\u003eRadical Botany\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatania Meeker\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntónia Szabari\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatania Meeker (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNatania Meeker\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. She published\u003ci\u003e Voluptuous Philosophy: Literary Materialism in the French Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e with Fordham University Press in 2006. Her research and teaching interests include animated and animating plants, vegetal ontologies, plant art and media, materialisms old and new, feminist theory and thought, and the Enlightenment, broadly conceived. She was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2017. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntónia Szabari (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAntónia Szabari\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. Her scholarly interests include early modern literature and political thought, plant studies, history of botany, and speculative fiction. She is the author of\u003ci\u003e Less Rightly Said: Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth-Century France\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford University Press, 2009). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 03, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703038669107,"sku":"9780823286621","price":66.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/YXRxV082V0NUcWpnb3FSb21sZUUzZz09.webp?v=1763315999","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/radical-botany-plants-and-speculative-fiction-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}