Botanical Microphotography in the Perspective of Philosophy of Culture

dc.contributor.authorBogaczyk-Vormayr, Małgorzata
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-28T09:24:13Z
dc.date.available2019-11-28T09:24:13Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionThe article was translated by Stephen Dersley, with the translation supported by the grant 261/ WCN/2019/1 “Wsparcie dla Czasopism Naukowych” (2019-2020) in order to promote original Polish research worldwidepl
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this article is to briefly outline my own cognitive experience, characterized by knowledge transfer and aesthetic experience, which arises from making BioArt. Specifically, I do nature photography, using the micro-photography technique. In this article, I distinguish – in terms of methodology and value — between interdisciplinary research in the social sciences and the postulate of transdisciplinary research, which leads me to reject the so-called plantality model — a linguistic concept employed by G. Deleuze and F. Guattari (Rhizome). I argue for a critical approach to this line of post-humanist reflection on non-human life that is not characterized by knowledge transfer. The article includes a report on the course of my research (parts 2 and 3), and a reflection of its relevance to the philosophy of art and philosophy of culture (parts 1, 3, 3.1, 4). The report from my own research and artistic activity includes a description of the transformation of my working space, the process of acquiring new disciplinary tools and skills — an experience that I call a change of attitude — and a presentation of nature microphotography (mainly plant photography). I provide a technical commentary on the presented photographs with regard to the process of their creation (e.g. botanical and optical information related to the microscopic slides and equipment), as well as philosophical comments. The philosophical reflection includes the postulate of alterity, which, in my view, is endemic to post-humanist thought, as well as a postulate called the primacy of abstraction, which reflects the non-naturalistic, anti-illustrative, and interpretative character of artistic microphotography (in contrast to the illustrative nature of “the plantality discourse of philosophy”).pl
dc.description.sponsorshipMNiSW grant 261/ WCN/2019/1 “Wsparcie dla Czasopism Naukowych”pl
dc.identifier.citationEthics in Progress. Vol. 10 (2019). No. 2, pp. 135-154.pl
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.14746/eip.2019.2.12
dc.identifier.issn2084-9257
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10593/25202
dc.language.isoengpl
dc.publisherWydział Filozoficzny UAMpl
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesspl
dc.subjectmicrophotographypl
dc.subjectbotanicspl
dc.subjectBio Artpl
dc.subjectalterity studiespl
dc.subjectenvironmental ethicspl
dc.subjectposthumanismpl
dc.subjectfine-art photographypl
dc.subjectphilosophy of artpl
dc.subjectphilosophy of culturepl
dc.titleBotanical Microphotography in the Perspective of Philosophy of Culturepl

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