The Green Thread is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that takes the risk of departing from the long-standing human perception of plants- including autonomy, agency, and consciousness-to explore new territories where the re-conceptualization of vegetable beings as active agents in social and cultural environments becomes possible.
The Green Thread is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that takes the risk of departing from the long-standing human perception of plants- including autonomy, agency, and consciousness-to explore new territories where the re-conceptualization of vegetable beings as active agents in social and cultural environments becomes possible.
Patrícia Vieira is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, comparative literature, and film and media studies at Georgetown University. Monica Gagliano is research associate professor of evolutionary ecology at the University of Western Australia. John Charles Ryan is postdoctoral research fellow in communications and arts at Edith Cowan University.
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Introduction. Patrícia Vieira Monica Gagliano and John C. Ryan Section I. Disseminating Plants Chapter 1. What's Planted in the Event? On the Secret Life of a Philosophical Concept Michael Marder Chapter 2. Seeing Green: The Re-discovery of Plants and Nature's Wisdom Monica Gagliano Chapter 3. Tolkien's Sonic Trees and Perfumed Herbs: Plant Intelligence in Middle-earth John Charles Ryan Chapter 4. What's Talking? On the Nostalgic Epistemology of Plant Communication Stefan Rieger Chapter 5. "Wild Memory" as an Anthropocene Heuristic: Cultivating Ethical Paradigms for Galleries Museums and Seed Banks Tom Bristow Section II. Politicizing Plants Chapter 6. Preserving Plants in an Era of Extinction: Sentimental and Scientific Discourse in Mary Thacher Higginson's "A Dying Race" Jennifer Schell Chapter 7. Laws of the Jungle: The Politics of Contestation in Cinema about the Amazon Patrícia Vieira Chapter 8. Monstrous Flora: Dangerous Cinematic Plants of the Cold War Era Andrew Howe Chapter 9. Once Upon a Time in Ombrosa: Italo Calvino and the Fabulist Pastoral Gioia Woods Chapter 10. Vital Plants and Despicable Weeds in Ray Lawrence's Lantana Guinevere Narraway and Hannah Stark Section III. Performing Plants Chapter 11. Plant-Thinking with Film: Reed Branch Flower Graig Uhlin Chapter 12. Shrubs and the City: Urban Nature in Rear Window Pansy Duncan Chapter 13. The Art of Human to Plant Interaction Christa Sommerer Laurent Mignonneau and Florian Weil Chapter 14. The English Garden Effect: Phyto-Performance Abandoned Practices and Endangered Uses Alan Read Contributors
Introduction. Patrícia Vieira Monica Gagliano and John C. Ryan Section I. Disseminating Plants Chapter 1. What's Planted in the Event? On the Secret Life of a Philosophical Concept Michael Marder Chapter 2. Seeing Green: The Re-discovery of Plants and Nature's Wisdom Monica Gagliano Chapter 3. Tolkien's Sonic Trees and Perfumed Herbs: Plant Intelligence in Middle-earth John Charles Ryan Chapter 4. What's Talking? On the Nostalgic Epistemology of Plant Communication Stefan Rieger Chapter 5. "Wild Memory" as an Anthropocene Heuristic: Cultivating Ethical Paradigms for Galleries Museums and Seed Banks Tom Bristow Section II. Politicizing Plants Chapter 6. Preserving Plants in an Era of Extinction: Sentimental and Scientific Discourse in Mary Thacher Higginson's "A Dying Race" Jennifer Schell Chapter 7. Laws of the Jungle: The Politics of Contestation in Cinema about the Amazon Patrícia Vieira Chapter 8. Monstrous Flora: Dangerous Cinematic Plants of the Cold War Era Andrew Howe Chapter 9. Once Upon a Time in Ombrosa: Italo Calvino and the Fabulist Pastoral Gioia Woods Chapter 10. Vital Plants and Despicable Weeds in Ray Lawrence's Lantana Guinevere Narraway and Hannah Stark Section III. Performing Plants Chapter 11. Plant-Thinking with Film: Reed Branch Flower Graig Uhlin Chapter 12. Shrubs and the City: Urban Nature in Rear Window Pansy Duncan Chapter 13. The Art of Human to Plant Interaction Christa Sommerer Laurent Mignonneau and Florian Weil Chapter 14. The English Garden Effect: Phyto-Performance Abandoned Practices and Endangered Uses Alan Read Contributors
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