Michael Marderis IKERBASQUE Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz. An author of more than twenty books in the fields of ecological theory, phenomenology, and political thought, he is currently completing a manuscript titled Fabrication: Of Intelligence and Nature. A Philosophical Fugue. His most recent works include The Phoenix Complex (2023), Time Is a Plant (2023), with Edward S. Casey, Plants in Place (2024), Eco-Freud (2025), Metamorphoses Reimagined (2025), with Anais Tondeur, Fiori di fuoco (2025), and Of Joints and Other Articulations (2026).
Mateja Kurir talks to Michael Marder, a philosopher of plant life, about the place of plants in Western thought, vegetal time, Chernobyl, waste and fire, and what landscape architects might learn from treating the ground as active and the landscape as a collaborator.
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