Plant scientists are wondering if plants really communicate with each other (and with insects and other organisms) or if they just “eavesdrop” on each other’s “soliloquies.” At stake in the debate are the definitions of communication (e.g., is it necessarily intentional, and is intentionality necessarily conscious intentionality?) and behavior (is it something that only animals do?). […]
Posts Tagged ‘ParkeHarrison’
Happy phytomorphosis
Posted in Eco-culture, Spirit matter, tagged Christmas, ParkeHarrison, phytomorphosis, plant communication, trees, Yule on December 24, 2013 | 6 Comments »
Elixir as child’s play
Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged Aleister Crowley, art, Heidegger, Heraclitus, ParkeHarrison, visuality, von Uexkull on February 28, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Marina Zurkow’s Elixir videos are wonderful, as is her Renatured blog. (Thanks to Tim for posting about her work.) There is something sad and elemental about them, in their depiction of the self-containedness of our worlds and their ultimate vulnerability in the face of the chaos beyond. At the same time, the title suggests an […]