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patabotany [2009-06-05 08:22] – Links to argiculture_magic changed to agriculture_magic nikpatabotany [2013-06-07 09:03] (current) alkan
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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]]
  
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     * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_plants     * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_plants
   * [[agriculture_magic]]   * [[agriculture_magic]]
 +  * http://dataisnature.com/?p=612
  
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