Meaning of vegetalise | Babel Free

Definitions

Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe végétaliser.

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“Wireless imagination and the use⟳ of free words will lead⟳ us to the essence of Matter⟳ ... we may animalise, vegetalise, mineralise, electrify, and liquefy style, making it, to a certain extent, live⟳ the same life as that of matter⟳.”

“Picking up on a range of associated work⟳, such as Anna Tsing's ideas of 'collaborative survival' (2015), Marisol de la Cadena's view⟳ of cultivating relations with the 'antrhopos-not-seen' (2015), and Maria Puig de la Bellacasa's speculative ethics of care (2017), she argues that we need⟳ to learn⟳ from and listen⟳ to nonhuman modes of living, 'find⟳ ways to vegetalise our all-too-human sensorium, and learn⟳ how to involve⟳ ourselves with plants' (Myers, 2017a: 300, italics in original).”

“If you say⟳ that a plant⟳ 'learns' 'decides', 'communicates' or 'remembers', are you humanising the plant⟳, or vegetalising a set⟳ of human concepts?”

“Vialles observes the apparent euphemistic intent behind the appropriateion of the term from the industries of forestry, mining, and veterinary medicine, pointing out that this appropriation served to "vegetalise" a carnivorously motivated act.”

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