Making Kin - Plants

Making Kin - Plants / small 114-page paperback published by Cthulhu Books / ISBN 9788409729067

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The literary genre of xenofiction proposes an exercise of ethological research and imagination, placing our body inside another’s perspective. When we practice “becoming with” another’s experience, we practice empathy. At a time when our understanding of plant life and the vegetal world is being consistently and dramatically reshaped, this book extends an invitation to inhabit the world of these dynamic beings that surround us. Following the slightly defamiliarizing paths that plants and their rooted beings open for our mobile bodies, this anthology of twelve short stories and a visual essay becomes a space in which to exercise empathy with this other form of life.