Plant Theory Matson Lawrence historical and cultural interest

historical and cultural interest

draft horses performed the heavy work of pulling wagons

from Cleopatra to Kant and Heidegger

To counter this view of Derrida’s thought as basically destructive

pre-Columbian sites

Plant Theory Matson Lawrence historical and cultural interestIn our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the book uses animal studies as a way into the subject, but it does so in unexpected ways. Upending critical approaches of biopolitical regimes, it argues that it is plants rather than animals