Botanica postumana. Incontri dis-antropocentrici con culture indigene e vegetali

Abstract

This essay explores how two Italian scientists, Stefano Mancuso and Monica Gagliano, promote a non-anthropocentric understanding of plant behaviour and intelligence. While Mancuso⁣ develops a non-anthropocentric approach by establishing a cross-cultural exchange with vegetal systems of knowledge, Gagliano's cross-cultural exchange with plants has been further deepened through the mediation of several indigenous cultures. I argue that their research, in addition to expanding our understanding of the vegetal experience of the world, cultivates a posthuman approach that questions the centrality of Western cultural and human intellective exceptionalism.