Rundown



In this episode, Mexie talks with fellow Total Liberation activists Nic and Kathrin about the exciting inner life plants and what taking plant sentience seriously would mean for our politics and how we show up in the world. We focus much of the first part of the discussion on Peter Wolleben’s “The Hidden Life of Trees”, discussing some of the exciting scientific discoveries about plant sentience and communities. We finish with a thorough grappling of the implications of plant sentience and how we as Total Liberation activists can improve our theory and praxis.



Sources and Links



* Follow Nic (Pynk Spots): https://www.youtube.com/c/PynkSpotsYT* Follow Kathrin: https://www.youtube.com/c/KathrinYTchannel* Follow our Sex Stream channel, A Little to the Left: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL3Qpe6vbDN9czUaeRdQtGQ/



* Peter Wolleben, The Hidden Life of Trees: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28256439-the-hidden-life-of-trees* Peter Wolleben, The Heartbeat of Trees: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57598967-the-heartbeat-of-trees* Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass* Stefano Mancuso and Alessandra Viola, Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence: https://islandpress.org/books/brilliant-green* Monica Gagliano, Thus Spoke the Plant: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576914/thus-spoke-the-plant-by-monica-gagliano/* Beronda Montgomery, Lessons from Plants: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674241282* Daniel Chamovitz, What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374537128/whataplantknows* Anna Lawrence, Listening to Plants: Conversations Between Critical Plant Studies and Vegetal Geography: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03091325211062167* Michael Marder, Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/plant-thinking/9780231161251



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