{"product_id":"plants-by-numbers-9781350343252","title":"Plants by Numbers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis open access book takes a queer, feminist, and decolonial technoscience approach to the ecologies that emerge from our entanglements with nonhumans (air, rocks, algae, trees, soil and plants) and computational hard\/software. In \u003ci\u003ePlants by Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e, artists and theorists working with computation address the urgent need to think beyond the human paradigm, opening up new fields of debate that question the troubled relationship between ecosystems and human technology.Organised around three key themes--techno-nature entanglements, plants as resistant agents, and becoming-with-plants--the volume provides a vital pathway through complex theoretical ideas that inform the practices of artists working in the fields of computation and ecology.Fusing art theoretical and art practice approaches, the contributors describe how we might design, make and imagine computational processes differently, or otherwise, through the co-production of artworks with plants. Showing how these artworks migh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA text that demonstrates the vital importance of observing and treating plants as our companion species, and as cohabitants of this planet to bend towards and learn from, as we ponder our own significance and survival, threatening the end of the anthropocene. * Legacy Russell, Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Kitchen, author of Glitch Feminism (2020) *\u003cbr\u003ePlants by Numbers works through how coloniality shapes, but does not absolutely envelop, our queerly inter-human and inter-ecological worlds. Rethinking classificatory taxonomies, the book centres plant-life and its aesthetic-scientific possibilities in an eloquent intervention into studies of livingness, affect, and relationality. * Katherine McKittrick, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies, Queen’s University, Canada; Author of Dear Science and Other Stories (2021) *\u003cbr\u003eThis timely collection of accounts by artists, curators, technoscientists and theorists speculates on different modes of world-making and creating kinship with plants, establishing a rich ground for more-than human entanglements. * Petra Löffler, Professor of Contemporary Media Theory and History, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany *\u003cbr\u003eGrowing from a simple prompt, to consider numbering-otherwise, this volume brings together artistic, academic and community-building studies and productions of co-constitutive life worlds of plants and soil, computation and simulation, humans and more-than-humans.   Rooted in anti-colonial, Black and Indigenous, trans-feminist and queer science and technology studies and poetics, shifting away from numbering as a method of control, and generously reimagining accounts, plots and digging as critical cultivating methods and creative practices, \u003ci\u003ePlants By Numbers \u003c\/i\u003eis essential reading (and experiencing) for artists, scholars, organizers, gardeners, farmers, teachers, observers, dreamers and anyone moved by the transformational and technocultural worlding of entangled plant lives. * Jas Rault \u0026amp; T.L. Cowan, co-authors of Heavy Processing (2023) *\u003cbr\u003eIn our data-driven world, this collection asks how we might articulate an ethico-politics of numbers with respect to the more-than-human world. Respect is key here, for the power of enumeration but also for its limits, and for the irreducible relationality of sustainable world-making. * Lucy Suchman, Professor Emerita, Anthropology of Science and Technology, Lancaster University, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eList of Contributors \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eList of Plates\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/b\u003e    \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e    \u003cb\u003ePart One: Techno-nature entanglements\u003c\/b\u003e  1. Afro-now-ist Stories of Resistance: A Conversation with Stephanie Dinkins, \u003ci\u003eStephanie Dinkins (Stony Brook University, USA) and Srimoyee Mitra (University of Michigan, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  2. The Compromised\/Compromising Life of a Farmed Plant, \u003ci\u003eElaine Gan (Wesleyan University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  3. As Children of Plants, we Play in our Machine Gardens, \u003ci\u003eAmy Youngs (Ohio State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  4. Co-operating with Diatoms - queer fabulations of a world feeling computing, \u003ci\u003eHelen V. Pritchard (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHGK-FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland)\u003c\/i\u003e  5. So-called Plants, \u003ci\u003ePossible Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJara Rocha and Femke Snelting (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eInterdependent researchers, Barcelona and Brussels)\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003ePart Two: Plants – resistance, regeneration and alliance\u003c\/b\u003e  6. Forests that Compute, \u003ci\u003eJennifer Gabrys (University of Cambridge, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  7. Watered by Data and Other Bio-economic Thoughts: A Conversation Between Curator Belinda Kwan and Artist Stephanie Rothenberg, \u003ci\u003eBelinda Kwan (Independent curator, Canada) and Stephanie Rothenberg (SUNY Buffalo, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  8. Tending to 2030m3: How to regenerate regeneration? How to unasphalt asphalt?, \u003ci\u003eHelen V. Pritchard (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHGK-FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland), Eric Snodgrass (Linnaeus University\/Linköping, Sweden) Miranda Moss (Artist, South Africa), Daniel Gustafsson (Linnaeus University, Sweden\u003c\/i\u003e  9. Decolonization, Computation, Propagation: Phyto-human alliances in the pathways towards generative justice, \u003ci\u003eRon Eglash, Audrey Bennett, Lionel Robert, Kwame Porter Robinson, Matthew Garvin, Mark Guzdial (all, University of Michigan, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003ePart Three: Becoming-with-plants\u003c\/b\u003e  10. Codely Phytographia: an artist’s material history of writing code with trees, \u003ci\u003eJane Prophet (University of Michigan, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  11. Tehran of Trees, \u003ci\u003eSina Seifee (Artist, Belgium\/Iran)\u003c\/i\u003e  12. Writing in the Wind: Ecopoetics and geoengineering, \u003ci\u003eJoel Ong (York University, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCanada)\u003c\/i\u003e  13. Sunbot Swarm: Absurdist Cyborg Systems for House Plants, \u003ci\u003eKathleen McDermott (NYU Tandon, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  14. Yellow Furry Lullaby, \u003ci\u003eBreakwater, Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe (Artists, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\/Korea)\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003eGlossary\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407538430295,"sku":"9781350343252","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350343252.jpg?v=1730499711","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/plants-by-numbers-9781350343252","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}