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Open Humanities Press– Dark Botany: The Herbarium Tales

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edited by Prudence Gibson, Sigi Jöttkandt, Marie Sierra and Anna Westbrook SeedBooks Published: 2024 ISBN: 978-1-78542-136-5 PDF ISBN: 978-1-78542-135-8 Dark Botany activates the material and sensorial wonder of plants—their energy, their mysterious allure, their capacities and skills, their independent might. In this Wunderkammer of critical plant studies essays and plant+artworks, the herbarium emerges as a site of multiple materialities and reflexive forms of counter-narrative. Herbaria specimens come alive as assemblages, telling truths about their dark histories and darker…

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