Vegetal Entwinements: Giovanni Aloi and Michael Marder in Conversation
Learn more about plants as they appear in the human imagination in this in depth conversation with leading scholars and the editors of Vegetal Entwinements in Philosophy and Art: A Reader, Giovanni Aloi and Michael Marder, with moderator Laura Pustarfi, board member of The Plant Initiative, for a conversation about their important new book. In recent years, philosophy and art have testified to how anthropocentrism has culturally impoverished our world, leading to the wide destruction of habitats and ecosystems. In this book, Giovanni Aloi and Michael Marder show that the field of critical plant studies can make an important contribution, offering a slew of possibilities for scientific research, local traditions, Indigenous knowledge, history, geography, anthropology, philosophy, and aesthetics to intersect, inform one another, and lead interdisciplinary and transcultural dialogues.
Vegetal Entwinements in Philosophy and Art considers such topics as the presence of plants in the history of philosophy, the shifting status of plants in various traditions, what it means to make art with growing life-forms, and whether or not plants have moral standing. In an experimental vegetal arrangement, the reader presents some of the most influential writing on plants, philosophy, and the arts, together with provocative new contributions, as well as interviews with groundbreaking contemporary artists whose work has greatly enhanced our appreciation of vegetal being.
Time: 12:00 CST/18:00 BST
