Plants in Place : : A Phenomenology of the Vegetal /

Plants in Place : : A Phenomenology of the Vegetal / / Michael Marder, Edward S. Casey.

Plants are commonly considered immobile, in contrast to humans and other animals. But vegetal existence involves many place-based forms of change: stems growing upward, roots spreading outward, fronds unfurling in response to sunlight, seeds traveling across wide distances, and other intricate relat...

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Casey, Edward S.,
Marder, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]
2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Critical Life Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 8 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface: Walking Among Plants
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 The Placial Basis of Plant Sessility and Mobility
  • 2 Peripheral Power: Structural Dynamics at the Edges of Plants
  • Interlude 1 How Plants Think
  • 3. Taking Trees Over the Edge
  • Interlude 2 Plants Up- Close: The Case of Moss
  • 4 The Shared Sociality of Trees, with Implications for Place
  • Interlude 3 Plants from Afar: As Seen in Landscape Painting
  • 5 Attachment and Detachment in the Place of Plants
  • Conclusion: The Fate of Places, the Fate of Plants
  • Notes
  • Index

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