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...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...

... from—and challenging—Darwinian and neo-Darwinian accounts of orchid-insect contact and controversial research on plant communication, Hustak and Myers demonstrate the interdependence of seemingly unrelated life forms. The evolving entity within this framework is not an individual organism...

... of their watery population among the dense pattering of plant life, birds, and human figures—not unlike Flemish tapestry of the fifteenth century but showing war rather than courtly love. Indeed, the panels are made for the viewer to parade through in their ceremonial unfolding—but in three levels of parallel...

..., 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...

... back to life and back to the roots of life in the maternal body.1 Even as we are called back to the site Volume 21, Number 2  doi 10.1215/10407391-2010-002 © 2010 by Brown University and  differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies...

... of ordinary life, who is singled out by the attention he receives and given only measured praise for attending to the world around him. He is someone whose education involves one effort after another to recognize elements of his world—not a character like William Words worth’s little actor who “cons another...

... 1842 .” MS DAR 6 . Darwin Collection, Cambridge University Library . Darwin Charles . On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life . Wilson 441 – 764 . Darwin Charles . The Variation of Animals and Plants...

..., or search for mates, and some snails, like the females of Littorina saxatilis , can even mask their sex in order to avoid being followed by unwanted mates (Ng et al.). Similarly, in her research on plant communication, the forestry botanist Suzanne Simmard has revealed that trees communicate with one...

... by Zhiyu Zhu . Renditions 59 - 62 . Certeau Michel de . The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. Rendall Steven . Berkeley : U of California P , 1984 . Chow Rey . “ Between Colonizers: Hong Kong's Postcolonial Self-Writing in the 1990s .” Diaspora 2 . 2 ( 1992 ): 151...

... of evolution and morphogenesis in describing their work. Such theories include Romantic notions of life forwarded by Johann Friedrich Goethe and Lorenz Oken, twentieth-century theoreticians such as D’Arcy Thompson and François Jacob, and, more recently, Susan Oyama and Niles Eldredge. The result is a composite...

...Sophia Roosth; Astrid Schrader sophia roosth is Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the twentieth- and twenty-first-century life sciences. Her first book manuscript, titled “Synthetic: How Life Got Made,” examines...

... 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...

... 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...

... with the expectation that I will find some essay that will address the concerns of my life” (127). This is a very important moment because while the mostly white-identified critics in the pages of difference s and Diacritics staged the debate in the assumed opposition between lesbian/gay and queer, Hammonds...

... the ocean by displaying organisms necessarily removed from their natural habitat, the author holds this train of thought in suspension to contemplate the aspects of sea life that have escaped the epistemological taming that makes the mysterious ocean intelligible to land-dwelling humans. The radical...

...). In the first instance, signal processing deals with life in a transduced state, a transformation of sound into something—electric- ity, digits, states on a hard drive—that can be manipulated for the purposes of expression, figuration...

... but also makes viewers witnesses to their presence. For this reason, the photographic image is thought to be objectively truthful and, objectifying reality truthfully, is also linked to the loss of life of its subject, which is at once the object it captures and keeps for good—its singularity being...

... that is intolerable if men are to live together in society” (236), such as killing, stealing, and so on. Poverty, illness, or homelessness, on the other hand, are not considered intolerable for the life of the community, and giving is not required. Charity, then, becomes what substitutes for such an absence of law...

... Quarterly 70 ( 2007 ): 37 -60. Hakluyt, Richard. Discourse of Western Planting . Ed. D. B. Quinn and A. M. Quinn. Extra Ser. 45. London: Hakluyt Society, 1993 . ———. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation . 12 vols. Glasgow: MacLehose, 1903 –05...

...Alexander R. Galloway The politics of math are of newfound concern today, due to the outsize influence of algorithms and code in contemporary life. While only a few years ago, tech authors were still hawking Silicon Valley as the great hope for humanity, today one is more likely to hear how Big...