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 ==== Patabotany ==== ==== Patabotany ====
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 Patabotany "symbolically attributes the properties of plants, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments" (adapted from Alfred Jarry's [[Pataphysics]]) Patabotany "symbolically attributes the properties of plants, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments" (adapted from Alfred Jarry's [[Pataphysics]])
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 +Patabotany is a hybrid between ethnobotany (the study of cultural, spiritual and medical uses of plants) and pataphysics, the science of imaginary solutions (Jarry, 2001). Patabotany poses the question: what if the metaphors, cultural rituals and myths associated with plants could be discovered in their physical properties – in their shapes, colours and functions? What if mushrooms were in fact aliens attempting to communicate with humans, what organs could mushrooms and human grow, to improve reciprocal communication? If red roses were able not just to symbolise love, but write love letters through chemotropism, guided by lovers’ pheromones? Patabotany is a cross-pollination between myth and reality: it is an interpretation of interpretation, an abstraction of abstraction, emerging at the edges of poetry, magic and biology. Patabotany subverts the contemporary drive to instrumentalise culture and nature in economic or utilitarian constructs. It describes a world where the believable is grafted onto the improbable, where logic is pollinated with a hybrid of sensuality and paradox, where botany and permaculture mutate into an epic of nurturing and seduction in relentless cycles of living and dying. From [[groworld_vegetal_culture]]
  
 Related: Related:
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     * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_plants      * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_plants 
     * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_plants     * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_plants
-  * [[argiculture magic]]+  * [[agriculture_magic]] 
 +  * http://dataisnature.com/?p=612
  
 ==== Pataecology ==== ==== Pataecology ====
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 ==== Patabotanical Morphology ==== ==== Patabotanical Morphology ====
  
-For ordinary plant morphology to be patafied see http://libarynth.org/phytomorphology+For ordinary plant morphology to be patafied see [[phytomorphology]]
  
 Other morphological principles: Other morphological principles:
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   * taumatology: study of miracles.   * taumatology: study of miracles.
   * Dance of Saint Vitus (from Dutch) = neurological disease that brings with it all kinds of sudden and involuntary movements of the limbs, face and muscles.   * Dance of Saint Vitus (from Dutch) = neurological disease that brings with it all kinds of sudden and involuntary movements of the limbs, face and muscles.
 +  * Formication : a somewhat unusual, but medically well-known, abnormal sensation. This sensation closely resembles the feeling of insects crawling on and/or under the skin, and can also include sensations which resemble those of insects stinging or biting. 
 +  * spontaneous generation: frogs are born from mudd, mice from rotting wheat, etc.
  

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