Zones of Obscurity: Representations of Social and Vegetal Reproduction under Patriarchal Capitalis

结合批判性植物研究和社会繁殖理论(SRT)，这个项目询问文学、音乐和电影中对植物的表现如何陌生资本主义对社会/植物繁殖的统治。资本积累是由父权话语和实践推动的，这些话语和实践将某些人类和非人类身体构建为女性的、生殖的和植物般的身体。社会繁殖包括生育、护理工作和自给自足的农业；植物繁殖包括腐烂、再生和生长周期，以维持植物的生命(Marder，2013)。资本主义经济学将生殖定位为女性和非生产性，将社会/植物生殖放在许多经济和文化理论的边缘。通过详细的仔细阅读，这个项目将研究植物繁殖的审美表现如何在资本积累过程中提供对植物和人的征募的想象模式。

Combining critical plant studies and social reproduction theory (SRT), this project asks how representations of plants in literature, music, and film defamiliarise capitalism's domination of social/vegetal reproduction. Capital accumulation is facilitated by patriarchal discourses and practices that construct certain human and nonhuman bodies as feminine, reproductive, and plant-like. Social reproduction includes childbirth, care work and subsistence farming; vegetal reproduction comprises cycles of decay, regeneration and growth that sustain plant life (Marder, 2013). Capitalist economics situate reproduction as feminine and non-productive, relegating social/vegetal reproduction to the margins of much economic and cultural theory. Through detailed close reading, this project will examine how aesthetic representations of vegetal reproduction provide imagined modes of resistance to the conscription of plants and people in processes of capital accumulation