Plant Humanities

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In a world dominated by humans and other animals, plants have become an unlikely but productive focus of academic attention. Scientists and humanists are unearthing neglected aspects of plant life and being in everything from digital design and fire suppression to philosophy, history, literature, food, culture, and archives. Our class explores what thinking through and with plants offers to film and media studies, but will also draw on botany, feminist science and technology studies, and work on indigeneity, colonialism, and extraction.