The Vegetal Turn

Abstract

The Vegetal Turn is driven by this new, eclectic, mounting wave of theo retical and practical interest in the complexities and peculiarities of plant life, plant human relations, plant-nonhuman relations, and plant-mediated human relations. From a mostly philosophical perspective, this volume provides a snapshot of that mounting wave in action, its kaleidoscopic interests and spreading trajectories, its less-than-fully-disciplined methods and approaches, and its central conceptual and practical aspirations. This chapter introduces the volume.