Abstract
This article unpacks the events of the April 2018 insurrection in Nicaragua through an analysis of visual representations of plant forms in urban landscapes and in social media in the country’s recent history. By revealing a contested imagery of plants, it considers the implications of historically decentering the human in visual culture, and how the speculative potential of plant and vegetal thinking may reconfigure social movements. Based on the vegetal iconography of this historical juncture, the analysis exposes a cartography of ecocidal practices of neoliberal/global capitalism at the margins. The iconography of vegetation suggests what Michael Marder calls plant thinking and being, as well as a new configuration of networks that challenge current forms of authoritarian power and capture different ontologies of practice.
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