Political Plants

Q1 Social Sciences

Cultural Politics Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1215/17432197-10232502

Sria Chatterjee

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Abstract

This essay considers a series of examples of contemporary and early twentieth-century artistic projects done in collaboration and conversation with plant scientists around the theme of plant sentience. In particular, it zooms in on the work of the Indian biophysicist Jadagish Chandra Bose and the Indian artist Gaganendranath Tagore in the 1920s and the Italian plant scientist Stephano Mancuso and German artist Carsten Höller in the 2020s. The essay has four interconnected aims. The first is to investigate how and why plant sentience is visually and spatially represented by artists. The second is to show through two broad examples how plant science can be and has been co-opted to serve different political, economic, and ideological positions. The third and broader aim of this essay is to counter a widespread ethical assertion in environmental humanities and animal studies that destabilizing human-nonhuman binaries intrinsically lends itself to projects of environmental justice by encouraging humans to coexist more equitably with other species. In other words, we should not assume that artistic production is spontaneously aligned to ethics of multispecies justice. The fourth and concluding aim is to make the related argument that plant sentience and other ways of knowing and relating across species need to be understood within the context of colonial and extractive histories.

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政治上的植物

这篇文章考虑了一系列当代和二十世纪早期的艺术项目的例子，这些项目是与植物科学家围绕植物感知的主题进行合作和对话的。特别是，它放大了20世纪20年代印度生物物理学家贾达吉什·钱德拉·博斯和印度艺术家加加南德拉纳特·泰戈尔的工作，以及20世纪20年代意大利植物科学家斯特凡诺·曼库索和德国艺术家卡斯滕·Höller的工作。这篇文章有四个相互关联的目的。第一个是研究艺术家如何以及为什么在视觉和空间上表现植物的感知。第二是通过两个广泛的例子来展示植物科学如何能够并且已经被用来服务于不同的政治、经济和意识形态立场。本文的第三个更广泛的目标是反对环境人文学科和动物研究中普遍存在的一种伦理主张，即通过鼓励人类与其他物种更公平地共存，不稳定的人类-非人类二元关系本质上有助于环境正义项目。换句话说，我们不应该假设艺术生产是自发地与多物种正义的伦理一致的。第四个也是最后一个目的是提出相关的论点，即植物感知和其他认识和联系物种的方式需要在殖民和采掘历史的背景下理解。

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Cultural Politics Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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期刊介绍： Cultural Politics is an international, refereed journal that explores the global character and effects of contemporary culture and politics. Cultural Politics explores precisely what is cultural about politics and what is political about culture. Publishing across the arts, humanities, and social sciences, the journal welcomes articles from different political positions, cultural approaches, and geographical locations. Cultural Politics publishes work that analyzes how cultural identities, agencies and actors, political issues and conflicts, and global media are linked, characterized, examined, and resolved. In so doing, the journal supports the innovative study of established, embryonic, marginalized, or unexplored regions of cultural politics. Cultural Politics, while embodying the interdisciplinary coverage and discursive critical spirit of contemporary cultural studies, emphasizes how cultural theories and practices intersect with and elucidate analyses of political power. The journal invites articles on representation and visual culture; modernism and postmodernism; media, film, and communications; popular and elite art forms; the politics of production and consumption; language; ethics and religion; desire and psychoanalysis; art and aesthetics; the culture industry; technologies; academics and the academy; cities, architecture, and the spatial; global capitalism; Marxism; value and ideology; the military, weaponry, and war; power, authority, and institutions; global governance and democracy; political parties and social movements; human rights; community and cosmopolitanism; transnational activism and change; the global public sphere; the body; identity and performance; heterosexual, transsexual, lesbian, and gay sexualities; race, blackness, whiteness, and ethnicity; the social inequalities of the global and the local; patriarchy, feminism, and gender studies; postcolonialism; and political activism.

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