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• W376070341 abstract "Quid est enim homo secundum formam nisi quedam arbor eversa? [What indeed is man according to his form but a tree turned upside-down?] --Pope Innocent III, De miseria condicionis humane, 1195 vegetable world [...] has its revenges. --Phil Robinson, Man-Eating Tree, 1881 (1) A SPECTER IS HAUNTING ANIMAL STUDIES: THE SPECTER OF CELLULOSE. BUT in fact the monster is terrorizing quite a bit more than this contemporary critical formation, the various genres of speculative fiction have all but covered the globe with perilous foliage. We can find man-eating plants hidden away in the Amazon basin, the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and the dark African interior, yet also in the wilds of Arizona, Carolina swamps, and even the occasional poorly settled part of England or skid-row flower shop, in the many versions of The Little Shop of Horrors. (2) Nor is the natural habitat of the monster exclusive to planet Earth, they thrive in both the secondary worlds of high fantasy and the alien biospheres of far-future science fiction, everywhere from Oz to Middle-earth and Xanth to Barsoom. B-movies, too, have embraced this novel concept for a monster-of-the-week, (3) and the animate has also squared off against some of the most famous heroes of serial media franchises, including Doc Savage, Dr. Who, Will Robinson, and Mario. In addressing the question of whence comes this still-ubiquitous vegetable monstrosity and what it means, I hope to set the lives of the monster plants--and through them, the lives of real plants--in dialogue with that strain of posthumanist thought known critical human-animal or simply studies. Work done in studies over the past several years has done much to advance our thinking about the place of animals not only in literature but also in their real embodied existence alongside our own. (4) Even so, the lack of attention paid to plants in studies reveals some of the blind spots of this critical formation, just surely studies has effectively challenged the speciesism inherent in other critical projects. While this paper does not advocate for the development of an independent plant studies, it will invite further thinking about the implications of taking the word in studies a little more literally, the word so often seems to mean mammal species or animal species: the monster may point to a deep unease about the boundary between taxonomic kingdoms that even recent work done in studies can have some difficulty navigating. This essay will examine the origins of the modern monstrous in the early pulp era and the decades preceding it when the diffusion of Darwinian thought through speculative fiction and its precursors first began, both in order to understand the place of the monster in fiction and to propose a place for it in contemporary theoretical discourse. How to make a Karl Steel has demonstrated in his 2011 book of the same title, has been, historically, to define humanity through and against the concept of the animal, often with negative consequences for real animals. In a recent article, however, Karen Houle has pointed out that plants, by contrast, have not even been granted this dubious place of honor in the definition of the human, resulting in their complete backgrounding in the discourse of humanity and human discourse generally (91-92). As a philosopher deeply engaged with studies herself, Houle stresses throughout that, in theory, the posthumanist foundation of studies does not exclude plants from equal consideration, but, in practice, work done in this area typically backgrounds them well. (5) For example, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, influenced by the speculative turn in critical theory, has recently turned from earlier studies of monsters and animals to undertake a fascinating project examining the life of stone; even he, in reaching for what seems as inhuman a substance can be found, proceeds directly from to mineral, skipping over the vegetable (Stories of Stone 58). …" @default.
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• W376070341 title "Lives of the Monster Plants: The Revenge of the Vegetable in the Age of Animal Studies" @default.
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