a metaphysics of mixture
A photographic interaction with Emanuele Coccia’s book The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture and a selection of photographs of nature from 2022-2024.
As part of my series of photographic interactions with books of interest, The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture by Emanuele Coccia, suggests that we think about nature in multiple ways. More is going on with plants than simply climate change worries or forest bathing euphoria.
Especially stimulating to me are the interrelationships he suggests – the mixture – the parts of nature and the whole of nature. One of my scientific heroes, the biologist and dialectical naturalist Richard Levins, also presents an ecological systems theory. Levin and Coccia argue for the crucial importance of the “complex and nonhierarchical relationship between quantitative and qualitative approaches to the world.”
The Life of Plants helps us understand this dialectical naturalism. No firm understanding of nature is possible without considering “the mixture.”
Specs:
36 pages
Height: 8”
Width: 5.25”
Binding: Saddle-stitch
Edition size: 100
