Radical Botany by Natania Meeker, Antnia Szabari - 9780823286638

Radical BotanyPlants and Speculative Fiction\nAuthor(s): Natania Meeker, Antnia Szabari\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823286638, 978-0823286638\nSynopsis\nWinner, 2019 Science Fiction & Technoculture Studies Book Prize\n Radical Botany 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. \n Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. Radical Botany 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 .