26/11/2025
What can plants teach us about thinking, memory, and our place in the Anthropocene?
In their article “Plant-Thinking in the Anthropocene”, Queen Sarkar and Ananya Mishra explore an emerging ecological perspective that takes plants not just as biological organisms, but as thinkers that reshape our perception of the environment, our understanding of memory, human agency and responsibility.
Drawing on philosophy, literature, and poetry the authors show how plant-life can offer alternative models of awareness, resilience, and coexistence at a time of deep ecological crisis.
A thought-provoking contribution to the intellectual history of ecology — and a fresh lens on the Anthropocene. Read it in the latest issue of Orbis Idearum: https://www.orbisidearum.net/