vegetalise

Example Sentences

• "Wireless imagination and the use of free words will lead us to the essence of Matter ... we may animalise, vegetalise, mineralise, electrify, and liquefy style, making it, to a certain extent, live the same life as that of matter."
• "Picking up on a range of associated work, such as Anna Tsing's ideas of 'collaborative survival' (2015), Marisol de la Cadena's view of cultivating relations with the 'antrhopos-not-seen' (2015), and Maria Puig de la Bellacasa's speculative ethics of care (2017), she argues that we need to learn from and listen to nonhuman modes of living, 'find ways to vegetalise our all-too-human sensorium, and learn how to involve ourselves with plants' (Myers, 2017a: 300, italics in original)."
• "If you say that a plant 'learns' 'decides', 'communicates' or 'remembers', are you humanising the plant, or vegetalising a set of human concepts?"
• "Vialles observes the apparent euphemistic intent behind the appropriateion of the term from the industries of forestry, mining, and veterinary medicine, pointing out that this appropriation served to "vegetalise" a carnivorously motivated act."