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About this book
Plants are silent, still, or move slowly; we do not have the sense that they accompany us, or even perceive us. But is there something that plants are telling us? Is there something about how they live and connect, how they relate to the world and other plants that can teach us about ecological thinking, about ethics and politics? Grounded in Thoreau's ecology and in contemporary plant studies, Dispersion: Thoreau and Vegetal Thought offers answers to those questions by pondering such concepts as co-dependence, the continuity of life forms, relationality, cohabitation, porousness, fragility, the openness of beings to incessant modification by other beings and phenomena, patience, waiting, slowness and receptivity.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- ContentsÂ
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Thoreauâs Vegetal OntologyâThe Aerial, the Rootless, and the Analogous
- 1 Thoreau Experiments with Natural Influences
- 2 A Material Faith: Thoreauâs Terrennial Turn
- 3 Auto-Heteronomy: Thoreauâs Circuitous Return to the Vegetal World
- 4 Thoreauâs Garden Politics
- 5 âWild Thinkingâ and Vegetal Intelligence in Thoreauâs Later Writings
- 6 Green Fire: Thoreauâs Forest Figuration
- 7 The Riddle of Forest Succession
- 8 Low-Tech Thoreau; or, Remediations of the Human in The Dispersion of Seeds
- 9 On Thoreauâs Ecoerotics
- 10 Chance Encounters: Thoreauâs Pomontology
- 11 âWild Only Like Myselfâ: Thoreau at Home with Plants
- 12 Plant Life and Poetics of Transtemporality
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Imprint