Description Covert Plants contributes to newly emerging discourses on the implications of Vegetal life for the arts and culture.
Moreover, the aesthetic, political, and legal implications of new knowledge regarding plants\' ability to communicate, sense, and learn require intensive, cross-dis.
Plants are no longer the passive object of contemplation, but are increasingly resembling \'subjects, \' \'stakeholders, \' or \'actors.\' As such, the plant now makes unprecedented demands upon the nature of contemplation itself.
How can we think, speak, and write about plant life without falling into human-nature dyads, or without tumbling into reductive theoretical notions about the always complex relations between cognition and action, identity and value, subject and object?A full view of this shifting perspective requires a \'stereoscopic\' lens through which to view plants, but also simultaneously to alter our human-centered viewpoint.
Covert Plants probes the implications of Vegetal life for thought and how new plant science is changing our perception of the Vegetal - around us and in us.
These representations have at times obscured the diversity of plant behavior and experience.
Representations of Vegetal life often include plant analogies and plant imagery.
At a time when urgent calls for restorative care and reparative action have been sounded for the environment, this essay volume presents a range of academic and creative perspectives, from evolutionary biology to literary theory, philosophy to poetry, which respond to the perplexing problems and paradoxes of Vegetal thinking.
Its editors and contributors seek various expressions of Vegetal life rather than the mere representation of such, and they proceed from the conviction that a rigorous approach to thinking with and through Vegetal life must be interdisciplinary.
This stretches to changes in our perception of \'nature\' and to the adapting roles of botany, evolutionary ecology, and environmental aesthetics in the humanities.
Description Covert Plants contributes to newly emerging discourses on the implications of Vegetal life for the arts and culture
