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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 191–202.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of Marder's concepts, plant “nourishment,” “desire” and “language” are explored through readings of Gabrielle de Vietri's installation The Garden of Bad Flowers (2014), the story of Daphne from Ovid's Metamorphoses (8 CE) and Alice's encounter with talking flowers in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass...
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in Bad Flowers: The Implications of a Phytocentric Deconstruction of the Western Philosophical Tradition for the Environmental Humanities
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 1. Basil in The Garden of Bad Flowers, June 2014. Photograph by author.
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 58–78.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and distribution practices of modern infrastructure. In Miami, the US Department of Agriculture established a Plant Introduction Garden in 1898, with “Agricultural Explorer” David Fairchild activating networks connecting India, Kew Gardens, and Washington to bring mostly Asian tropical fruits, shrubs, and flowers...
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 3. Linneaus’s table of plant species for constructing his Horologium Florae, arranged by the hour when flowers begin to bloom each day (from 3:00 a.m . to 12:00 noon on this page). From: Caroli Linnaei, Philosophia Botanica (Stockholm: Kiesewetter, 1751: 274).
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 692–696.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., hacking cough. These are the symptoms of Hanahaki disease, a fan fiction trope in which characters cough up flowers that have taken root in their body due to unrequited love. 1 Originating in manga, the trope’s name is a portmanteau of the Japanese words 花 hana (flower) and 吐きます hakimasu (to throw...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 602–617.
Published: 01 November 2022
... distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). literary and cultural plant studies gender and sexuality phytopoetics vegetal eroticism vegetal violence What does it mean to smell a flower? It might be a human response to a token of love, gratitude, or mourning...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 261–264.
Published: 01 March 2024
.../Entry/180922 ; Liberman, “Skin of Etymological Teeth.” 2. Manning, Politics of Touch , xiv, 155–56 . 1. Anicka Yi, Touch Embargo , silicone, monofilament, silk flowers, MDF, 2017, Anicka Yi Studio, https://anickayistudio.biz/series/chicken-skins ; Anicka Yi, Scale of Value...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 766–783.
Published: 01 November 2024
... modalities for grasping the ambivalent nature of life on the edges of a plantation. One trip to the forest in 2018 with the sisters Naʔ Srimjam and Naʔ Badək was spent walking through the plantation to get to a spot in the forest where flowers grew. Entering the cool noise of the forest after the hot...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 66–92.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the seedlings and “give [them] a chance to grow, and flower.” The construction reminded me of a game of string figures about which Donna Haraway writes that they “are like stories; they propose and enact patterns for participants to inhabit, somehow, on a vulnerable and wounded earth.” 1 The string design...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 584–589.
Published: 01 November 2022
... insistently, flirts with her. She creates a romantic date with her, embraces her, flowers for her, and, on the night before the collective action to stop Australia2, “puts her mouth in the flat between [Kaden’s] breasts. Rubs her cheek against [her] nipple.” 5 “The kiss,” thinks Kaden, “is like a crash...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 140–144.
Published: 01 November 2023
... form as fractal arguments or representations, a kind of analogy performed at different scales. The geopoetic approach described by Bobbette (this issue) as connecting scales of time and space gets at this way of approaching otherness. On the “Flowers of the Mineral Kingdom” Facebook group...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 183–186.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., towards the Corporation's future, insulated from the wind and the rain in the petroleum-fueled fantasy bubble of a skyscraping office block? It pays to remember that skyscrapers were built not conjured too, wrought by human and more-than-human labours. Thus, while Elise Lemire and Benjamin Flowers...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 391–413.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of the group sinking into anoxic swamps and fossilizing into coal. Ferns are thus emblematic of longevity and resilience: some present-day species date back 60 or more million years, and the group is the most diverse after the flowering plants that emerged during the Cretaceous (145 million years ago). Ferns...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 285–290.
Published: 01 November 2016
... are also conscripted for the Father’s kingdom. The pope marvels at the saint’s commitment to commune with other creatures—one that even drew him to preach to the flowers, calling them to praise his Lord (§11). While this certainly illustrates the nature and extent of the saint’s connection...
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in Minding the Gaps: How Humanists, Climate Scientists, and Communities Can Become Collaborating Storytellers
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 2. Humans “ready” to take action (in yellow) implement conservation projects on the landscape. Conservation projects—visualized as native flowering plants—allow water to infiltrate and prevent erosion, thereby providing protection to the environment. Humans “not ready” to take action
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 373–401.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Figure 3. Linneaus’s table of plant species for constructing his Horologium Florae, arranged by the hour when flowers begin to bloom each day (from 3:00 a.m . to 12:00 noon on this page). From: Caroli Linnaei, Philosophia Botanica (Stockholm: Kiesewetter, 1751: 274). ...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 186–189.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., the metamorphoses that beings have experienced while living with others are so many material-semiotic traces : thus the shape of the orchid flower, thus the stripes of the zebras. The orchid has comprehended the male bee and carries the traits of what the flower imagines a female bee to be; the zebra has...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 36–57.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of Sylvia Plath . New York : Vintage , 2020 . Darby Margaret Flanders . “ Un Natural History: Ward’s Glass Cases .” Victorian Literature and Culture 35 , no. 2 ( 2007 ): 635 – 47 . Desmarais Jane . Monsters under Glass: A Cultural History of Hothouse Flowers from 1850...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 371–384.
Published: 01 July 2024
... referent to the expressiveness of plants that makes their distinctive style of communication so poignant. A flower resembles a message, because it is a message, only it’s not a message to us; it’s a message to pollinating birds and insects, articulated in a language tuned in to the way those animals see...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 251–255.
Published: 01 November 2016
... by, flowers, birds, wind, and the waters of rivers?” Hundreds of books written warning of the dangers of materialism, of immanence, of modernism, of technology, of science, or of the worship of matter; total indifference when it comes to corporate planetary destruction; enthusiastic destruction of all...
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