The Botany of Desire
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The Botany of Desirehum2461
Instructor: Ericka Ghersi
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Human being and Nature
Bees and flowers (coevolution)Traditional distinction between subject and object is meaninglessAuthor and his garden (potato)Relation is the same bees and flowers have
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SelectionSelection versus sensorial (xv-1a)Did I choose? (xv-1b)Domesticated species (“we are in charge”[?]) Domesticated species versus “wild” (xvi-2b)But what do we know about the dog? (xvi-3)Plants versus animals. Who are more interesting?
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Plants and ancient civilizations
Tulips and potatos (xvii-4)Artificial selection (4b)
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Author’s premiseHuman desires form a part of natural history in the same way the hummingbird’s love of red does, or the ant’s taste for the aphid’s honeydew.Four desires:
SweetnessBeautyIntoxicationControl (xviii-5)
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DomesticationAncient civilizations and domestication:
What do we know?How do you look at it when a person talks about it?Are we receptive? (xviii-6)Who is older?, plants, animals or human beings? (xix-7a)
PLANTS (xix-7b)
What do we offer to history? Consciousness (independency) versus inventing photosynthesis and perfecting organic chemistry without hurting nature. (8)
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CarriersWho is the subject and who is the object?Immobility - defense (xx-9) how do we explain the relationship between beings and plants?Role of the animals before agriculture started:
any relation with the book Popol Vuh?
Evolution evolves (xx-10)
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What is evolution?In what way evolution goes?Who is the subject and who, the object?Meaning (xxi-11)Design in nature (xxi-12)In a coevolutionary relationship every subject is a subject and vice versa.
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Charles Darwin:The Origin of SpeciesArtificial selection versus natural selection (xxii-13)Human desire (14)Artificial from natural selection has blurred.Man over nature (15)
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Conclusion Outside and Inside: We still believe that domestic species implies “species have come in or been brought under civilization’s roof.” (xxiv)Author’s beliefs (xxiv-16)
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His approach to these plants
“Man and nature”look at
“the Other”(xxv-17)
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End of“Introduction”