Cartographies of Postcolonial Vegetal Politics

Deleuze, Guattari, and Mathema of Vegetality

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Cartographies of Postcolonial Vegetal Politics

Deleuze, Guattari, and Mathema of Vegetality

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Cartographies of Postcolonial Vegetal Politics takes a deep dive into the stratified and rigidly segmented territorialities of Plant Humanities or Critical Plant Studies. It strikes up an epistemic departure from the arboreal structures of “plant-thinking” and subsequently lays out “plant-becoming” in terms of ontophytological thinking revised in alignment with rhizomatics so as to critically design the discursive edifices of postcolonial vegetal politics-the differential grammatology of which stands wedded to the production of the “new” and thus is understood to be able to position vegetality as event-in-(dis)order. Abhisek Ghosal emphasizes the profound importance of Deleuzo-Guattarian grammatologies in pulling up “plant-becoming” from being subjected to a set of rigidly structured models of vegetality. It is by working out aleatory eventualities of postcolonial haecceities, that the rigid “structures” of vegetality constituting the intellectual terrain of Critical Plant Studies are tenably discarded to foreground “n-1” becomings of vegetality-the multiplicities of which can well be sensed by means of reckoning vegetality as deterritorial vector that can facilitate scholars to map the eventual unfolding of postcolonial vegetal politics afresh.

Table of Contents

Foreword Alex Taek-Gwang Lee
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Plant Humanities: An Overview
Chapter 1: Theory of the Plant: Cartographies of Plant-Thinking
Chapter 2: Remapping Plant–Life: Plant Memory and Limits of Arboreality
Chapter 3: Re–cartographazing “Ontophytology”: Micropolitics, Transgressivity and Rhizomatics
Chapter 4: Rhizomatic Ontophytological Thinking: Plant Aesthetics, Plant Ethics and Phytoerotics
Chapter 5: Postcolonial Haecceities and Plant Humanities: Negotiating Indic Vegetal Discourses
Chapter 6: Remapping Plant Humanities: Negotiating Postcolonial Vegetal Politics
Conclusion: Deleuze, Guattari and Mathema of Vegetality
References
Index
About the Author

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Published Oct 10 2024
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 134
ISBN 9781666953008
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions Not specified
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Foreword

Alex Taek-Gwang Lee

Alex Taek-Gwang Lee is Professor of Cultural Studi…

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