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Feral Futures, or The Animal That Therefore I Am Not (Less to Follow)

  • Andres Matlock (author)
Chapter of: The Before and the After: Critical Asynchrony Now(pp. 135–161)

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TitleFeral Futures, or The Animal That Therefore I Am Not (Less to Follow)
ContributorAndres Matlock (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.53288/0446.1.08
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-before-and-the-after-critical-asynchrony-now/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightAndres Matlock
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2025-01-29
Long abstractTaking its cue from Derrida’s “The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow),” this chapter considers the dynamic origins and ends of plants. By reading ancient arguments for natural teleology in Cicero and Theophrastus alongside contemporary ecological accounts of feral activity, I outline a critical history of the entanglement between human and non-human agency. From the perspective of the feral future, the human ability to shape the growth of plant life only works from within the vegetal forces that transform us in turn.
Page rangepp. 135–161
Print length27 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Keywords
  • future
  • Cicero
  • change
  • feral
  • plants
Contributors

Andres Matlock

(author)
assistant professor in Classics at University of Georgia

Andres Matlock is an assistant professor in Classics at the University of Georgia, Athens. His research ranges widely over ancient philosophy, Roman literature and culture, and critical theory, with a special focus on ideas of time, nature, and change.