2017年3月5日 星期日

Cornucopia


"Our relation to the natural environment is governed by our unshakable faith in its cornucopia. The giving of vegetal life is converted into its mute and ongoing givenness; we think and act as though our picking, plucking, cutting down, felling, or uprooting of plants does not make a dent in the endless warehouse the world has become. Famines, droughts, and other variations on dearth are but local aberrations and temporary disruptions in the cornucopia of a tirelessly laboring nature, the Spinozan natura naturans ('nature naturing')."
via LARB Channel The Philosopher's Plant

Whatever the context, abundance at bottom connotes for us various aspects of the plant kingdom. Why? Perhaps, as a consequence of flashbacks in our unconscious to the time when we lived surrounded by vegetal environment,…
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