PLANT THINKING 13 and 15 March at THE BARBER SHOP Privileging tacit sensitivity over positivistic thought, the PLANT THINKING cycle aims to stimulate affective and non-cognitive dialogues with our surroundings, promoting new modes of conviviality and sensuous thinking. Approaching plants as friends, this cycle reflects on organic materialism, posthumanism and morphogenesis as crucial matters bridging sensibility today. Plant Thinking includes an audio listening session for plants at the Barber Shop, programmed with artist MARGARIDA MAGALHÃES, alongside a lecture by philosopher and environmentalist MICHAEL MARDER. 13th March 19h30 THINKING WITH PLANTS lecture by MICHAEL MARDER 'The goal of this talk is to provide an accessible introduction to the philosophy of vegetal life. Instead of treating plants as the barely animate objects of scientific investigation, I propose to consider them as partners in our practices of living and thinking. To do so, we must pay attention to four distinct but interrelated sense of “plant-thinking”: 1) the non-cognitive, non-ideational, and non-imagistic mode of thinking proper to the plants (what I like to call “thinking without the head”); 2) the human thinking about the plants; 3) how human thinking is, to some extent, de-humanized and rendered plant-like, altered by its encounter with the vegetal world; and, finally, 4) the ongoing symbiotic relation between this transfigured thinking and the existence of plants. My hope is that we will begin to intuit what it means to be (and to think) with plants.' 15th March 17h LISTENING SESSION FOR PLANTS Travelling through deep humid jungles and synthesizer landscapes, this collective audition invites us to a unique sonic experience shared both by human ears and vegetable pores, exploring unaccounted-for sensibilities. This specially programmed listening session departs from plant life's greatest hits such as Roger Roger's Rhapsody in Green, stimulating a space for immersion and green empathy. This session was conceived in collaboration with MARGARIDA MAGALHÃES. _ MICHAEL MARDER is IKERBASQUE Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. He is the author of numerous books and articles on phenomenology, political philosophy, and environmental thought. His latest monographs, forthcoming this year, are Phenomena—Critique—Logos: The Project of Critical Phenomenology and The Philosopher’s Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium. www.michaelmarder.org MARGARIDA MAGALHÃES searches for atopic forests through the exotic touch of internet environments. She is finishing a media arts degree at Lisbon Fine Arts Academy, working with installation and video. She collects jungle sounds, ethereal landscapes and random internet imagery, in the format of cassettes or her many tumblrs. www.rawforest.tumblr.com MORADA: The Barber Shop Rua Rosa Araújo 5, Lisboa INFO: http://thisisthebarbershop.blogspot.pt/
