Dark Matter: An Ecopsychological Approach to the Ontology of Plant Expression in Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation and Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly
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Abstract
Taking up Michael Marder’s “object of psychoanalysis, wherein we might detect a vegetalapproach to the psyche,” and Timothy Morton’s dark ecology, which traces thetwisted loops of agrilogistics, this article proposes an ecopsychological approach to theexpression of plant soul as the very constitution of human subjectivity. Examining RichardLinklater’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, which demonstrates the prettyblue Mors ontologica’s insidious plant agency to cleave the somatic human spirit, and CharlieKaufman’s Adaptation, wherein cinematic plant-thinking demands temporal distortionsthat render the human uncanny, this article positions the plant as the primary mover, theanimating force and manifestation of human desire and its expression.
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