Why Look at Plants?

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Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

About This Book

Introduction: Why Look at Plants?\n  Giovanni Aloi

Part 1: Forest

 1 Lost in the Post-Sublime Forest\n  Giovanni Aloi\n 2 The Humblest Props Now Play a Role\n  Caroline Picard\n 3 Ungrid-able Ecologies: Becoming Sensor in a Black Oak Savannah\n  Natasha Myers\n 4 An Open Book of Grass\n  Jenny Kendler

Part 2: Trees

 5 Trees: Upside-Down, Inside-Out, and Moving\n  Giovanni Aloi\n 6 Animation, Animism ... Dukun Dukun & DNA\n  Lucy Davis\n 7 Tree Wound Portraits\n  Shannon Lee Castleman\n 8 Contested Sites: Forest as Uncommon Ground\n  Greg Lee Ruffing\n 9  Quercus velutina , Art of Fiction, No. 11111011\n  Lindsey French

Part 3: Garden

 10 Falling from Grace\n  Giovanni Aloi\n 11  Hortus Conclusus : The Garden of Earthly Mind\n  Wendy Wheeler\n 12 Eden\'s Heirs: Biopolitics and Vegetal Affinities in the Gardens of Literature\n  Joela Jacobs\n 13 Thoreau\'s Beans\n  Michael Marder

Part 4: Greenhouse

 14 The Greenhouse Effects\n  Giovanni Aloi\n 15 Solarise\n  Luftwerk\n 16 The Glass Shields the Eyes of the Plant: Darwin\'s Glasshouse Study\n  Heidi Norton\n 17 The Lichen Museum\n  Laurie Palmer

Part 5: Store

 18 Hyperplant Shelf-Life\n  Giovanni Aloi\n 19 Life in the Aisles\n  Linda Tegg

20 Roomba Rumba: Interview with Katherine Behar\n  Fatma Çolakogluand Ulya Soley\n 21 Home Depot Throwing Out Plants\n  Various Contributors

Part 6: House

 22 Presence, Bareness, and Being-With\n  Giovanni Aloi\n 23 Houseplants as Fictional Subjects\n  Susan McHugh\n 24 Seeing Green: The Climbing Other\n  Dawn Sanders\n 25 Plant Radio\n  Amanda White

Part 7: Laboratory

 26 Psychoactives and Biogenetics\n  Giovanni Aloi\n 27 Of Plants and Robots: Art, Architecture and Technoscience for Mixed Societies\n  Monika Bakke\n 28 Boundary Plants\n  Sara Black\n 29 The Illustrated Herbal\n  Tova Flores\nIndex\nPart 8: Of Other Spaces

 30 (Brief) Encounters\n  Giovanni Aloi\n 31 Places of Maybe: Plants \"Making Do\" Without the Belly of the Beast\n  Andrew Yang\n 32 The Neophyte\n  Lois Weinberger\n 33  Herbarium Perrine : Interview with Mark Dion\n  Interviewer: Giovanni Aloi\n 34 Burning Flowers: Interview with Mat Collishaw\n  Interviewer: Giovanni Aloi\n 35 A Program for Plants: In Conversation, Coda\n  Giovanni Aloi, Brian M. John, Linda Tegg and Joshi Radin

Bibliography

Index