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Dark Botany: The Herbarium Tales.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biology.
- Critical theory.
- Ecology.
- Genre:
- Discursive works
- Essay Collection.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified], Open Humanities Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Dark Botany activates the material and sensorial wonder of plants-their energy, their mysterious allure, their capacities and skills, their independent might. In this Wunderkammer of critical plant studies essays and plant+artworks, the herbarium emerges as a site of multiple materialities and reflexive forms of counter-narrative. Herbaria specimens come alive as assemblages, telling truths about their dark histories and darker contemporary currents, while reflecting on the complexity of texture, movement, memory, compound structure, chemical emissions and rapid evolution of plants and languages. What one discovers is that herbaria are not static: they are as vital, energetic and enigmatic as the plants in their collections-and as diverse."-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- CC BY-SA.
- Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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