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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 191–202.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Jennifer Hamilton Abstract This is an experimental review essay responding to Michael Marder's Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013). The essay departs from the ordinary structure of comparing three books on a similar theme. Instead three...
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Being Dumped
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 180–193.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Michael Marder Abstract In this article, Michael Marder interprets the “toxic flood” we are living or dying through as a global dump. On his reading, multiple levels of existence—from the psychic to the physiological, from the environmental-elemental to the planetary—are being converted into a dump...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 371–384.
Published: 01 July 2024
... work, and the seminal work of scholarship in this field, Michael Marder’s Plant-Thinking , contains a number of insights that Backster would certainly affirm. Broadly, Marder enjoins us to “entertain the hypothesis that vegetal life is coextensive with a distinct subjectivity with which we might...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 101–107.
Published: 01 May 2019
... is political, gets another twist in Michael Marder’s essay “Being Dumped.” In a fervor of field philosophical conceptions, plant philosopher Marder digs where he stands in his post-phenomenological exposé on the “ontological toxicity” of the dump of ideas, bodies, dreams, memes, and waste materials that make...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (3): 661–679.
Published: 01 November 2024
... matter—whether encountered on the level of the individual plant or within the ecosystem at large—might be viewed as a prompt to reflect on the limits of the very notion of usefulness itself. As Michael Marder has highlighted, all plants ultimately perform a kind of “ontological indifference...
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Seed Care in the Palm Oil Sector
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 421–446.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to the detriment of pre-existing multispecies worlds and the commodified plant’s own lifeway. For instance, anthropologist Anna Tsing describes plantation science as a “hegemonic, extinction-oriented creed” rooted in the absolute domination of crops by humans. 5 Philosopher Michael Marder decries the plantation...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 385–400.
Published: 01 July 2022
...://gutsmagazine.ca/?post_type=post&s=wasteland . MacFarlane Robert , and Morris Jackie . Lost Spells . Toronto : House of Anansi , 2020 . Marder Michael . Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life . New York : Columbia University Press , 2013 . Marles Robin J...
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The War between Amaranth and Soy: Interspecies Resistance to Transgenic Soy Agriculture in Argentina
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 204–229.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the meanings of lives (both human and non-human) that arise, practically and concretely, from the heterogeneous vivacious activities of every single creature, including a plant. —Michael Marder, Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life While the publicity of genetically engineered (GE) organisms...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 129–153.
Published: 01 March 2025
... nonvascular Arctic plant species, plus lichen. Lee, Arctic Plants of Svalbard , 9–25 . 4. Marder, “Place of Plants,” 190 . 5. For major examples of how emotion affects connections to and perceptions of environments, see Mosser, Affective Ecologies ; Singh, “Affective Ecologies...
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Afterword: Crossing Time, Space, and Species
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 239–241.
Published: 01 May 2019
... are both “unloved others”—can be “responded to and approached through reciprocity and relationality.” And Michael Marder sees toxins as enacting a deindividualizing cross-species leveling, as toxic substances “hit ‘me’ as though I were a lump of flesh not at all distinct from the flesh of a rodent...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 280–294.
Published: 01 March 2025
...–powered means of transport, around the world and then return it to almost the same point from which Li departed. The lithium revolution, therefore, throws us into a vicious circle that only corroborates Michel Marder’s assessment that we continue to consider the planet as “an energy container, its depths...
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Media Ecologies of Plant Invasion
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 370–396.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and the Inverse of Slow Violence: Alien Species in Science and Society .” Environmental Humanities 7 ( 2015 ): 1 – 40 . Mabey Richard . Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilsation and Changed the Way We Think about Nature . London : Profile , 2012 . Marder Michael . “ The Place...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 49–70.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Trackways Theory.” 27. Tsing, “More than Human Sociality.” 28. Marder, Plant-Thinking , 2 . 29. Hustak and Myers, “Involutionary Momentum” ; Tsing, “Unruly Edges” ; Houle, “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral” ; Škrabáková, “Amerindian Perspectivism.” 30. Mol, “Actor-Network...
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Growing Methods: Developing a Methodology for Identifying Plant Agency and Vegetal Politics in the City
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., is part of adopting plant ontology. Marder argues that for “vegetal beings, life is de-centered . . . dispersed and disseminated throughout the body of plant communities.” He writes, “Plant in its singularity is a collective being, a loose and disorganized assemblage.” 45 As Sheridan argues...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 187–207.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and learn language is to some extent a human-specific capacity, transmitted through, yet distinct from, human cultures. 10 At the same time, humanities scholars such as Michael Marder, David Abram, and Geoffrey Lloyd adopt nondualistic approaches to language, challenging the nature-culture dichotomy...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (2): 241–264.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., Matters of Care . 3. Puig de la Bellacasa, Matters of Care , 42 . 4. Robbins and Moore, “Return of the Repressed,” 1750 . Kingsbury and Pile, “Introduction.” 5. Besky and Blanchette, “Fragility of Work,” 6 . 6. Marder, Plant-Thinking . 7. Bastian, “Fatally...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 79–99.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of a Discipline . 15. Michael Marder argues that when we encounter a plant, we often encounter two or more different worlds, and recognizing this axiom is already to let plants maintain their uniqueness. Marder, Plant-Thinking , 8–31 . 16. “Report on the Caoutchouc Tree of Assam made...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 May 2016
... imagination. Goethe was a passionate gardener whose interest in plants blossomed in the spring of 1776 when he began planting and tending a garden given to him by Duke Charles Augustus at Weimar. 45 Michael Marder has worked through the archives of European philosophy, pulling out thinkers like Goethe...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 July 2023
... to detail. My doctoral research was funded by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung. 1. Marder, Philosopher’s Plant , 19, 114 . 2. Van Dooren, “Wild Seed, Domesticated Seed” ; Beldo, “Metabolic Labor” ; Krzywoszynska, “Nonhuman Labor.” 3. Moore et al., “Plantation Legacies” ; Tsing...
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Lively Ethography: Storying Animist Worlds
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (1): 77–94.
Published: 01 May 2016
... with the rationality of the [unmarked] human). 16. Quoted in Margulis and Sagan, What Is Life? , 219. 17. Hall, Plants as Persons ; Hustak and Myers, “Involutionary Momentum”; Trewavas, “Plant Intelligence”; Trewavas, “Aspects of Plant Intelligence”; Marder, Plant-Thinking . 18. Val Plumwood...
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