future/ing plant magic

08 Oct 2022

My crisis of faith about writing/literature is over. Thanks to the full moon in aries and namely marvelous books I’ve recently read, I feel so inspired to create/write.

Actually, last night I had a download about composing a collection of stories, essays and poems that would be nammed future/ing plant magic. In this note, I’d like to compile all the sources I want to try to put in communication throught that project.

SOURCES :

• [MOVIE] Without Name, 2016 (ecohorror about forests and psychedelics)
• [MOVIE] Invisible Demons, 2022 (Mubi documentary about climate changes)
• [MOVIE] Ruins, 2008 (tentacular ecohorror about plants)
• [MOVIE] Arrivals, (science-fiction about time and langage)
• [BOOK] The Great Derangement by Anitav Gosh
• [BOOK] Plant-Thinking : A Philosophy of Vegetal Life by Michael Marder
• [BOOK] Magie, meurtre et médecine : des plantes et leurs usages de John Mann
• [BOOK] How Non-Violence Protects the State by Peter Gelderloos
• [BOOK] How to Blow up a Pipeline by Andreas Malms
• [VERSO BOOK] Capitalism and the Camera (essay collection)
• [ACAD.BOOK/ECOGOTHIC] Fear and Nature : Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene
• [ACAD.BOOK/ECOGOTHIC] EcoGothic in the gardens in the long nineneteenth century : phanthom, fantasy and uncanny flowers
• [ACAD.BOOK/ECOGOTHIC] Plant horror : approaches to the monstruous vegetal in fiction and film
• [ACAD.BOOK] Novel Cultivations by Elizabeth Hope Chang (vegetal orientalism, empire)
• [MAGAZINE&PODCAST] Emergence Magazine
  • [PODCAST EPISODE] Ancient Green : Moss, Climate and Deep Time - Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • [ESSAY] The Inward Migration in Apocalyptic Times - Alexis Wright (to create a country of the mind)
• [PODCAST EPISODE] Necrocapitalism : Plague, Ideology, & The Murderous Logic of Capital by Revolutionary Left Radio
• [PODCAST EPISODE] Dark Green Religion : Nature Spirituality and Planetary future by Revolutionary Left Radio
• [PODCAST EPISODE] Allen Clements - An Introduction to Biodynamic Agriculture by The Permaculture Podcast
• [DIGITAL GARDEN ENTRY] problems bigger than states (mars 2021)
• [DIGITAL GARDEN ENTRY] herbalism and decolonial gardening ressources (septembre 2021)

Some of thoses resulting pieces would include one named to kill a politician with poisonous plants about (non-)violence and plants intelligencia and another one would be the oracle of invisible demons which would be a speculative future design essay potentially accompanied by a short story.

So themes that would be explored in this collection future/ing plant magic would be : [time], [violence], [transnationalism], [plant agency], [plant communication], [spirituality/religion], [climate change], [narratives], [death], [anthropocene].