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Spores from Space: Becoming the Alien

Chapter of: Covert Plants: Vegetal Consciousness and Agency in an Anthropocentric World(pp. 61–77)

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TitleSpores from Space
SubtitleBecoming the Alien
ContributorTessa Laird(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0207.1.08
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/covert-plants/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightLaird, Tessa
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2018-09-11
Long abstractThe masterpiece of pseudo-science, The Secret Life of Plants (1973), tells you everything you ever needed to know about plants, but were afraid to ask. Writers Christopher Bird and Peter Tomp-kins might have had former lives as a science journalist and a war correspondent, respectively, but by the time they publish The Secret Life (or SLOP, as I shall affectionately refer to it), it is clear they have partaken in some serious communion with the vegetal mind. SLOP is filled with telepathy and telekinesis, electric veg-etables and flashing flowers, hypersensitive mimosas and unde-monstrative radishes. Houseplants can sense their owners’ plea-sures and pains and, with the right gadgetry, can testify against murderers, or open garage doors. Bird and Tompkins’s agenda is clear: to convince humanity it is really plants that are the earth’s superbeings. Plants can grow as tall as pyramids, predict cyclones, and, most spectacularly, engage in intergalactic conversation.
Page rangepp. 61–77
Print length17 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)