violencia lenta y disputa por la superficie de una hoja (II)

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Violencia lenta y disputa por la superficie de una hoja
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas (INIF) / Programa de Posgrado en Filosofía, Universidad de Costa Rica
23/ago/2024
Lecture
VII Coloquio ‘Individuo y Violencia’ (Mesa ‘Ecologías y comunalidades’)

A small plantation forest near the Holcim cement plant offers an opportunity to examine concrete forms of slow violence. The trees in this "green barrier" form a vegetation infrastructure, designed, planted and maintained to act as a "natural filter" for airborne dust, and over time their leaf tissue becomes a living record not only of the conditions to which they are exposed, but also of the role they play in new relationships of contestation: for example, that between specimens of mosses that, after the accumulation of fine particles on the leaves of the trees, have found a new rough substrate to take root in, thereby compromising the photosynthetic process of the plant barrier.
Far from recognizing the aggression against ecological agents, both the trees that make up the green barrier and other surrounding vegetation, the focus of this paper shifts to understanding these plants and their new relationships as material witnesses to historical processes of accelerated environmental exploitation, and as plant accomplices that enable a positive feedback loop resulting from their participation as another component of the factory.

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