The concept of natureculture document : a conceptual exploration of seeds, embodied information, and unconventional records

Abstract

Anthropocentric alterations to the environment are beginning to negatively impact the long-term health and survival of seeds. These dramatic environmental changes are resulting in the extinction of plant life. In the context of biodiversity, extinction “insinuates the loss of a potential genetic resource more than the loss of individual lives. A fear of extinction is, in part at least, a fear of losing what might be valuable in the future—a very archival feeling.” This ongoing and increasing extinction of plant life generates fear about losing biodiversity not only in the future but also in the present, which, as a result, “prompts us to ask what . . . the archives might be and might look like in future eras of planetary time.” [excerpt]