The Cultures of Entanglement: On Nonhuman Life Forms in Contemporary Art (Image)

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The Cultures of Entanglement: On Nonhuman Life Forms in Contemporary Art
The Hothouse Archives: Plants, Pods and Panama Red
	1. Weeds and the Unrequited
		The Lawn (Re)Disturbance Laboratory A Public Experiment in Collaboration with Seeds, Time, and Weeds http://nextepochseedlibrary.com/lawn/
			List of Illustrations
	2. Submergence
		Saddening the Green: The Politics and Poetics of the South African Lawn
			References
			Acknowledgements
			List of Illustrations
	3. Out of the Garden
		Jean‐Jacques Rousseau’s Botanique: Undergoing Nature as a Pedagogy of Resistance to the Anthropocene
			Introduction: Rousseau’s Nature & The Great Transformation
			Against the Pedagogy of the Enlightenment: Rousseau & Human Nature
			Overcoming Nature: The Great Transformation & The Rise of the Anthropocene
			Undergoing vs. Overcoming Nature: Dominique Janicaud & Rousseau
			‘Everywhere’ in Chains: A Pedagogy of Counter‐Enlightenment as Rousseau’s Botanique
			References
		“The flowers, after all, didn’t understand Greek”: Plants, Politics, Poetics
			“We can only be hunters of objects”: Plants, Politics, Poetics
			Myth: Home
			Traveling and Crossing Borders
			The Residence: Free Exchange
			The Plants’ Political
			References
			List of Illustrations
	4. The Social Order of Plants
		The Potential of Ruderal Societies and Perfectly Provisional Areas in the Works of Lois Weinberger
			References
			Online Resources
			List of Illustrations
		Songs the Plants Taught us: Strange Entanglements of Vinyl Records and Horticulture
			Between city and countryside
			Performance, vinyl records, and audience participation
			Bringing the country into the city
			Psychogardens
			Post‐colonial gardens
			Conclusion
			References
			List of Illustrations
	5. Flora
		The Blue Rose
			pH Blue
			Red Cabbage Recipe
			Defying Mother Nature
			The Blue Rose as Postmodern Icon
			The Elusive Blue Gene
			Delphinium Blooms
			The Color Blue
			Towards the Future
			References
			Online Resources
			List of Illustrations
		After Nature, Coding and Reading Plant Life
			List of Illustrations
		Not a Rose and the Impossibility to Be a Revolutionary and Not Like Flowers
			List of Illustrations
		Trojan Horse Manifesto
			List of Illustrations
Questioning the Non‐Human Other: Political Potentials of Living Beings in Art
	6. Animals and the Ethics of Art
		Human‐Animal Studies – Bridging the lacuna between academia and society
			The (Western) Origins
			What are Human‐Animal Studies about?
			Human‐Animal Studies and their potential as connectors between academia and society
			HAS at the University of Innsbruck
			Outcomes of HAS
			Creating bridges
			Appeal
			References
		Animal Artistic Agency: Contemporary Interspecies Art and Relational Aesthetics
			Animal challenges for traditional aesthetics
			Interspecies Art
			Swarm aesthetics and relational art
			References
			Lectures
			Video
			List of Illustrations
		Heads and/or Tails
			References
	7. Shifting to Non‐Human Aesthetic
		Viscous, Molten, and Phased: Undergoing Nature with Non‐Human Aesthetics, Hypo‐objects, & Strange Tools
			Overture: Flowing Matter
			Nature or phýsis
			Introduction: The Control or Reduction of Nature
			Undergoing/Overcoming Nature
			The Occurrence of Deconstruction is Already Nature/ Natural
			All Art is Ecological or ‘The Morton Gambit’
			Non‐Human Artists & Hypoobject Hunters
			More Notes on ‘Hypo‐Objects’
			On Being Object Hunters
			Strange Tools for a Future Aesthetics
			References
			List of Illustrations
		L’animal que donc je suis – Pierre Huyghe and Jacques Derrida
			Pour dire les plus longues phrases / Elle n’a pas besoin de mots (To utter the longest of sentences it has no need of words) – Charles Baudelaire
			L’animal que donc je suis – The Animal that Therefore I am
			“Alive entities and inanimate things, made and not made”
			Epilogue: Ashamed of / at being ashamed
			References
			List of Illustrations
	8. The Turning: Soil, Plants and Human Imagination
		Revolutionary Flowers: Sex, Gender and Politics in Early Modern Dance
			Political Strawberries
			Flowers Personified and Persons Florified
			Sex and Gender of Flowers
			Becoming a Flower
			‘Superhuman Dance’ and Queerness
			‘Priestess of Pantheism’ and the ‘Natural Language of the Soul’
			Mediating Technology
			References
			List of Illustrations
	9. ‘Theatrum Botanicum’: The Human‑Plant Exchanges
		Critical Knowledge Practices from the Margins: Plants and the Like
			Hilma af Klint, Notebook 588, Blumen, Moose und Flechten [Flowers, Mosses, and Lichens], 1919/20
			Gitte Villesen, There is an Affinity. (Dioramas, Paludariums, Höch, France and Butler), 2019
			References
			List of Illustrations
		The Art of Gardening in South Africa: Three Cases of Eco‐Political Landscaping from the Global South
			Introduction
			1. MADEYOULOOK: ‘Black gardening’ and restorative nostalgia
			2. Athi‐Patra Ruga: queering the postapartheid landscape
			3. People’s Parks: participatory landscaping against apartheid
			Conclusion
			References
			List of Illustrations
		Tue Greenfort: Questioning Dichotomies
			References
			Online References
			List of Illustrations
	10. Quasi Objects
		Questioning the Non‐Human Other: Political Potentials of Living Beings in Contemporary Art
			Introduction
			Stuff we know but don’t see – Pollution and sea life
			Stuff we know but don’t see – Destructive forces of capital and production
			Gerspacher / Dialectic of Entitlement and the Ecopolitics of Debt
			References
			List of Illustrations
		The Invisible Thread: The Materiality and Infrastructures of Digital Animal Observation
			The Line
			The Nylon Thread
			The Virtual Environment
			The Submarine Cable
			The Pipeline
			Conclusion
			References
			List of Illustrations
		Tiny Plants (?) with Big Effect
			The Genesis of the impressionist Comma in Structurism
			An iconological Discursion: St. Jerome
			Analysis: Dürer’s St. Jerome in the Wilderness
			Albrecht Altdorfer’s Structurism
			An iconological Discursion: St. Catherine
			Analysis: Beheading of St. Catherine
			The absolute Structurism of the Master of the Historia
			The Structure(ing) of Nature today
			References
			List of Illustrations
	11. Beyond Nature: Artistic Transmutation
		The Eusocial Cathedral and the Buzzaar: A Novel Synthesis from De‐ and Reconstructing the Living and the Artificial
			THE COLLAPSE
			COLONY
			THE EUSOCIAL CATHEDRAL
			AUTHORIAN STIGMERGY
			THE COMPLEXITY OF LIFE
			TO DECONSTRUCT
			TO RECONSTRUCT
			“I HAVE A DESIRE FOR… THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT… TO ALLOW ME TO DO… MY OWN THING”
			FUNGI
			BEEHIVES OF THE FUTURE
			THE IMPACT
			TO RETHINK
			Acknowledgements:
			References
			Online source
			List of Illustrations
		Return to Dilmun
			Polycinease
			Return to Dilmun
			References
			List of Illustrations
		Pyrexia
			List of Illustrations
		Spearlight
			List of Illustrations
Appendix
	Acknowledgments
	List of Authors