Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

Link to this comparison view

Both sides previous revision Previous revision
Next revision		 Previous revision
Next revisionBoth sides next revision
groworld_hpi [2007-10-09 13:42] – 192.168.1.38groworld_hpi [2007-10-09 14:09] – 192.168.1.38
Line 1: Line 1:
 ====groworld HPI: SPECULATIONS ON THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN PLANT INTERACTIONS===== ====groworld HPI: SPECULATIONS ON THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN PLANT INTERACTIONS=====
  
-by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney, FoAM, Belgium+by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney, [[FoAM]], Belgium
  
 “Our present global crisis is more profound than any previous historical crises; hence our solutions must be equally drastic. I propose that we should adopt the plant as the organizational model for life in the 21st century, just as the computer seems to be the dominant mental/social model of the late twentieth century, and the steam engine was the guiding image of the nineteenth century.”  (McKenna, 1992) “Our present global crisis is more profound than any previous historical crises; hence our solutions must be equally drastic. I propose that we should adopt the plant as the organizational model for life in the 21st century, just as the computer seems to be the dominant mental/social model of the late twentieth century, and the steam engine was the guiding image of the nineteenth century.”  (McKenna, 1992)
Line 12: Line 12:
 HPI necessarily takes a symbiotic approach, being shaped by the questions it poses, such as; how can this two-way interface be realised? What assumptions are we making with regards to how we understand humans and plants? Do we need individual, specialised interfaces for each species, language or alkaloid, or are there more general approaches? How would they work? Where, or what is the point of contact between the humans and plants? How do we make the transition from machinic to organic? From boolean logic systems to systemic ecologic? What changes are required, and what further changes would occur in the plants, or humans using such interfaces? How does the nature of time, place and metabolic byproducts differ on each side of these interfaces? Are they reconcilable, or even mutually explicable? What can we learn from each other? How can we form a closer symbiosis and better understanding between the human and vegetable kingdoms once we open the gates between them? Communication, or pollination? HPI necessarily takes a symbiotic approach, being shaped by the questions it poses, such as; how can this two-way interface be realised? What assumptions are we making with regards to how we understand humans and plants? Do we need individual, specialised interfaces for each species, language or alkaloid, or are there more general approaches? How would they work? Where, or what is the point of contact between the humans and plants? How do we make the transition from machinic to organic? From boolean logic systems to systemic ecologic? What changes are required, and what further changes would occur in the plants, or humans using such interfaces? How does the nature of time, place and metabolic byproducts differ on each side of these interfaces? Are they reconcilable, or even mutually explicable? What can we learn from each other? How can we form a closer symbiosis and better understanding between the human and vegetable kingdoms once we open the gates between them? Communication, or pollination?
  
- +{{tree-woman.jpg}}
  
 ====HUMAN PLANT INTERACTION==== ====HUMAN PLANT INTERACTION====
Line 37: Line 36:
  
 A successful HPI would undoubtedly help provide illumination or elucidation of the tantalising, yet unverifiable experiments of Cleve Backster and his "stately DRACAENA MASSENGEANA, one of the plants which had officially ushered in the age of sentient plant reactions",  in which he investigated  "a yet undefined primary perception in plant life, that animal life termination can serve as a remotely located stimulus to demonstrate this perception capability and that this perception facility in plants can be shown to function independently of human involvement." (Swann, 1996) A successful HPI would undoubtedly help provide illumination or elucidation of the tantalising, yet unverifiable experiments of Cleve Backster and his "stately DRACAENA MASSENGEANA, one of the plants which had officially ushered in the age of sentient plant reactions",  in which he investigated  "a yet undefined primary perception in plant life, that animal life termination can serve as a remotely located stimulus to demonstrate this perception capability and that this perception facility in plants can be shown to function independently of human involvement." (Swann, 1996)
 +
  
  
Line 49: Line 49:
 An HPI could reveal possible futures where interactions between humans and plants moves from consumption, nutrition and competition, towards a fertile, symbiotic entanglement. An HPI could reveal possible futures where interactions between humans and plants moves from consumption, nutrition and competition, towards a fertile, symbiotic entanglement.
  
-“Suddenly I realize \\ +“Suddenly I realize\\ 
-That if I stepped out of my body I would break \\+That if I stepped out of my body I would break\\
 Into blossom.” ((From James Wright's poem "A Blessing")) Into blossom.” ((From James Wright's poem "A Blessing"))
  
  • groworld_hpi.txt
  • Last modified: 2012-06-12 10:32
  • by nik