{"product_id":"radical-botany-plants-and-speculative-fiction-9780823286621","title":"Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2019 Science Fiction \u0026amp; Technoculture Studies Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRadical Botany\u003c\/i\u003e excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures. Modernity, the book claims, is defined by the idea of all life as vegetal. Meeker and Szabari argue that the recognition of plants' liveliness and animation, as a result of scientific discoveries from the seventeenth century to today, has mobilized speculative creation in fiction, cinema, and art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePlants complement and challenge notions of human life. \u003ci\u003eRadical Botany\u003c\/i\u003e traces the implications of the speculative mobilization of plants for feminism, queer studies, and posthumanist thought. If, as Michael Foucault has argued, the notion of the human was born at a particular historical moment and is now nearing its end, \u003ci\u003eRadical Botany\u003c\/i\u003e reveals that this origin and endpoint are deeply informed by vegetality as a form of pre- and posthuman subjectivity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe trajectory of speculative fiction which this book traces offers insights into the human relationship to animate matter and the technological mediations through which we enter into contact with the material world. Plants profoundly shape human experience, from early modern absolutist societies to late capitalism's manipulations of life and the onset of climate change and attendant mass extinction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA major intervention in critical plant studies, \u003ci\u003eRadical Botany\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the centuries-long history by which science and the arts have combined to posit plants as the model for all animate life and thereby envision a different future for the cosmos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-229994\"\u003eNatania Meeker\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13361281\"\u003eAntónia Szabari\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823286621\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823286622\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT020000\"\u003eComparative Literature\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI015000\"\u003eMind \u0026amp; Body\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-NAT\"\u003eNature\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-NAT010000\"\u003eEcology\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatania Meeker (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNatania Meeker\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. She published\u003ci\u003e Voluptuous Philosophy: Literary Materialism in the French Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e with Fordham University Press in 2006. Her research and teaching interests include animated and animating plants, vegetal ontologies, plant art and media, materialisms old and new, feminist theory and thought, and the Enlightenment, broadly conceived. She was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2017. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntónia Szabari (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAntónia Szabari\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. Her scholarly interests include early modern literature and political thought, plant studies, history of botany, and speculative fiction. She is the author of\u003ci\u003e Less Rightly Said: Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth-Century France\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford University Press, 2009). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44529311842541,"sku":"9780823286621","price":55.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_5462d3a3-84ee-4e01-b318-356e419a240e.jpg?v=1701397500","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/radical-botany-plants-and-speculative-fiction-9780823286621","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}