Agata Lisiak: Notes on plant companionship: from Rosa Luxemburg’s herbarium to Jumana Manna’s Foragers, Journal of Visual Culture (2024) 23 (2), 131-155.
In “Notes on plant companionship: From Rosa Luxemburg’s herbarium to Jumana Manna’s Foragers,” Lisiak argues that Luxemburg’s analyses of interlocking systems of oppression provide a framework not only for understanding, but also resisting today’s genocides, wars, occupation, extractivism, and ecological destruction. Luxemburg’s political ecology as well as the work of contemporary artists Milena Bonilla, Marwa Arsanios, and Jumana Manna further expand this framework to include life-affirming lessons drawn from plant companionship. As these women demonstrate, plant companionship can generate liberatory ways of relating to the present and provide a steadfast commitment to keeping our futures open. Only if the future is open can we conceive of alternatives to past and present violence.
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