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Three Scenes of Reading Plants Three Scenes of Reading Plants
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Plastic Plants, Wasted Seeds, and Other Useless Artifacts Plastic Plants, Wasted Seeds, and Other Useless Artifacts
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Phytophallogocentrism Phytophallogocentrism
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The Trouble with the Supplement and the Place of Plants The Trouble with the Supplement and the Place of Plants
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Abstract
This chapter explores how Jacques Derrida charges the word “sunflower” with various meanings. There is no proper meaning that belongs to the sunflower alone, just as there is no completely idiosyncratic meaning of the human. Furthermore, the marginalization of plants in Western philosophy makes them the perfect candidates for deconstruction, which usually points out the centrality of the margins. Derrida uses the words parergon (what is beside the work, ergon) and supplement to describe the counterintuitive relation of the core to the periphery. He reverses the order of priority so that what is outside, secondary, and inessential turns out to be the condition of possibility for the centerpiece it supplements. Derrida attributes to plants the quality of “natural life.” This placement of plants is, in and of itself, a supplementation of these two oft-incompatible things: nature and life.
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