Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

About This Book

Introduction: Why Look at Plants?
  Giovanni Aloi

Part 1: Forest

 1 Lost in the Post-Sublime Forest
  Giovanni Aloi
 2 The Humblest Props Now Play a Role
  Caroline Picard
 3 Ungrid-able Ecologies: Becoming Sensor in a Black Oak Savannah
  Natasha Myers
 4 An Open Book of Grass
  Jenny Kendler

Part 2: Trees

 5 Trees: Upside-Down, Inside-Out, and Moving
  Giovanni Aloi
 6 Animation, Animism ... Dukun Dukun & DNA
  Lucy Davis
 7 Tree Wound Portraits
  Shannon Lee Castleman
 8 Contested Sites: Forest as Uncommon Ground
  Greg Lee Ruffing
 9  Quercus velutina , Art of Fiction, No. 11111011
  Lindsey French

Part 3: Garden

 10 Falling from Grace
  Giovanni Aloi
 11  Hortus Conclusus : The Garden of Earthly Mind
  Wendy Wheeler
 12 Eden's Heirs: Biopolitics and Vegetal Affinities in the Gardens of Literature
  Joela Jacobs
 13 Thoreau's Beans
  Michael Marder

Part 4: Greenhouse

 14 The Greenhouse Effects
  Giovanni Aloi
 15 Solarise
  Luftwerk
 16 The Glass Shields the Eyes of the Plant: Darwin's Glasshouse Study
  Heidi Norton
 17 The Lichen Museum
  Laurie Palmer

Part 5: Store

 18 Hyperplant Shelf-Life
  Giovanni Aloi
 19 Life in the Aisles
  Linda Tegg

20 Roomba Rumba: Interview with Katherine Behar
  Fatma Çolakogluand Ulya Soley
 21 Home Depot Throwing Out Plants
  Various Contributors

Part 6: House

 22 Presence, Bareness, and Being-With
  Giovanni Aloi
 23 Houseplants as Fictional Subjects
  Susan McHugh
 24 Seeing Green: The Climbing Other
  Dawn Sanders
 25 Plant Radio
  Amanda White

Part 7: Laboratory

 26 Psychoactives and Biogenetics
  Giovanni Aloi
 27 Of Plants and Robots: Art, Architecture and Technoscience for Mixed Societies
  Monika Bakke
 28 Boundary Plants
  Sara Black
 29 The Illustrated Herbal
  Tova Flores
Index
Part 8: Of Other Spaces

 30 (Brief) Encounters
  Giovanni Aloi
 31 Places of Maybe: Plants "Making Do" Without the Belly of the Beast
  Andrew Yang
 32 The Neophyte
  Lois Weinberger
 33  Herbarium Perrine : Interview with Mark Dion
  Interviewer: Giovanni Aloi
 34 Burning Flowers: Interview with Mat Collishaw
  Interviewer: Giovanni Aloi
 35 A Program for Plants: In Conversation, Coda
  Giovanni Aloi, Brian M. John, Linda Tegg and Joshi Radin

Bibliography

Index