...Carla Hustak; Natasha Myers This essay puts forth a theory of “affective ecologies” encompassing plant, animal, and human interactions. The authors’ formulation of “involution” favors a coevolution of organisms that act not on competitive pressures but on affective relations. Drawing in particular...

...Irving Goh This essay presents a critique of Luce Irigaray’s contribution to Through Vegetal Being , one of several contemporary theoretical works involving a “turn to plant life.” Irigaray there adopts a “reject” position drawn from her intellectual life that she sees as well in plant life, still...

... like weather or the growth of plants; ultimately, she draws on German Romantic thought to fill in a more general account of male and female principles operating in all of nature (Luce 92–93, 138–43, 154–60, 193–215...

... about copper’s not being beautiful enough to deserve to be called Venus. The discussions in “The Umbelliferous Plants,” “The Cruciform-flowered Plants,” and the two installments “On Metals” continue in this same mode, proceeding from what a child might have observed without entirely being aware...

... needed some help before it could explain how the variability of biological life he had encountered in South America came into being—much less account for human difference. Or so it would seem: to conclude his next big book, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (1868) , Darwin...

... – 508 . François Anne-Lise . “ Flower Fisting .” Postmodern Culture 22 . 1 ( 2011 ). https://muse.jhu.edu/article/481021 . Gorzelak Monika A. . “ Inter-plant Communication through Mycorrhizal Networks Mediates Complex Adaptive Behaviour in Plant Communities .” AoB Plants 7...

... Robert . New York : Cambridge UP , 1987 . 30 - 62 . Wang Tingzhi . “ Support the Construction of Daya Bay Power Plant .” Trans. John Steinhardt. Renditions 170 - 71 . Wen Yiduo . “ Two Poems .” Trans. Zhu Zhiyu. Renditions : 65 - 66 . REY CHOW Things, Common/Places...

... of Plant/Insect Encounters.” 23.3: 74–118. Kates, Joshua. “Against the Period.” 23.2: 136–64. Kirby, Vicki. “Initial Conditions.” 23.3: 197–205. Morland, Iain. “The Injured World: Intersex and the Phenomenology...

... Parallels? ” Evolution, Culture, and Behavior . Ed. Tonneau François Thompson Nicholas S. . New York : Kluwer , 2000 . 113 – 53 . Gardner Martin . The Colossal Book of Mathematics . New York : Norton , 2001 . Green Paul B. “ Expression of Pattern in Plants: Combining...

... in the same manner that one might note, and quite rightly, that such and such a plant, root, or substance is also for us a concept, a "thing" apprehended through the name of a concept and the device of an interpretation. No, in the case of "drugs" the regime of the concept is different: there are no drugs...

..., it is noteworthy that among mimetic species, the phenomenon occurs only in a single direction: the animal mimics plant life (whether leaf, flower, or thorn) and hides or gives up those physiologi- cal...

...: Affective Ecologies and the Sciences of Plant/Insect Encounters .” Roosth and Schrader 74 – 118 . Kirby Vicki . “ Initial Conditions .” Roosth and Schrader 197 – 205 . Margulis Lynn Sagan Dorion . Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species . New York : Basic , 2002...

.... Rabinovitz Lauren Geil Abraham . Durham : Duke UP , 2004 . 177 – 98 . Pinch Trevor J. Trocco Frank . Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer . Cambridge, MA : Harvard UP , 2002 . Plant Sadie . Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture...

..., a creature you often find on plant stems. And yet, Nabokov is hardly withdrawing modestly into his shell here; he is also the snail producing a “stanza patterned on a sonnet” that stands beside Pushkin’s not as thorn to rose or prose to poetry, but as another kind of translation, one that would itself...

... an adolescent girl who dressed as a boy and became a creek. For them, Tjipel is not life, plain and simple. She is neither bios nor zoe . Various plants and animals within the place Linda calls Tjipel are certainly alive, but their geological and geochemical contexts are not. Tjipel is inert. She...

... and presence. 8 Toward the end of his exhaustive inventory of Duplin county’s plant and animal bounty, Kenan rests upon the following: My mother’s garden: snap beans (Kentucky Wonders), pole beans, butterbeans, field peas, okra, cabbage, collards, mustard, Irish potatoes, carrots (sweet, sweet, sweet...

... Sensational Jellyfish and death, plant and animal, heaven and hell—truly denizens of the deep. Brunner writes, “The unknown provoked feelings of both curiosity and apprehension. While visitors were searching for a new experience...

..., of entelechies, of souls in the least part of matter ” (222). Using a pair of analogies drawn from green nature, he goes on to say, Each portion of matter can be conceived as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fish. But each branch of a plant, each limb of an animal, each drop of its humors...

... opened, both for itself and for the readers and writers that follow, the possibility of planting a fi rst forward step into a space no longer organized around and governed by phallic privilege. There is no question that this step...

... These are but a small fraction of the many titles that frame sexuality as count. See Beauvoir ; Herdt ; Irigaray ; Plant ; and Preciado . 10 Or, if translated literally, “mankind is always doing arithmetic.” The Greek expression, Dedekind’s own, is a tidbit of mathematical wit: the expression ἀεὶ ὁ θεὸς...