{"product_id":"vegetality","title":"Vegetality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow seeds enable new modes of human cognition and aesthetic sensibility\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if seeds could transform our understanding of life, time, and existence? \u003ci\u003eVegetality \u003c\/i\u003erestages the quiet drama of dormancy, germination, and growth to show how plants challenge human ideas about beginnings, endings, and identity. By integrating philosophy, plant science, poetry, and artistic experimentation, Michael Marder and Anaïs Tondeur invite readers to recalibrate their relationship with nature and with themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom roadside morning glory to flax found in Chernobyl's exclusion zone, \u003ci\u003eVegetality\u003c\/i\u003e follows real seeds across variegated landscapes and histories. The dispersal of these tiny travelers becomes a lens for exploring migration, resilience, and chance, connecting botanical life with urgent questions about displacement and belonging. Rather than model the currently predominant extractive and productivity-driven ways of acting, plants provide us with alternative paradigms for thinking about and sensing the world in the faint light of latency, patience, and open-ended becoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book's experimental structure embodies the logic of its subject wherein origins and conclusions all meld into an ongoing relational and generative process of \"starting from the middle.\" Through its collaborative interweaving of writing and images, \u003ci\u003eVegetality \u003c\/i\u003ebrings us the art of thinking and sensing the world from a vegetal (indeed, the seminal) perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and\/or extended descriptions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682841239925,"sku":"9781517920982","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57680123822453,"sku":"9781517920975","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781517920982_d1781c7e-4264-43cd-b3fc-b7846c2c7c97.jpg?v=1792511664","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/vegetality","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}