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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-differential grammatology of which stands wedded to the production of the 'new' and thus 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 'structures' of vegetality constituting the intellectual rigour of Critical Plant Studies are tenably discarded to foreground 'n-1' becomings of vegetality-multiplicities of which can well be sensed by means of reckoning vegetality as deterritorial vector that can facilitate scholars to cartograph the eventual unfolding of postcolonial vegetal politics afresh.
Abhisek Ghosal teaches in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology.
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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