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catalyst-30027	Jacobs, Joela	Phytopoetics: Upending the Passive Paradigm with Vegetal Violence and Eroticism	2019	18	.pdf	application/pdf	7707	325	49	Panizza’s priest invokes this symbol of violent destruction as a retribution for vegetal transgressions, yet the Biblical Deluge punished human sins while plants survived, and the eradication of plant life that Ewers’s police chief imagines would Special Section | Plantarium: Human-Vegetal Ecologies | Original Research | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 5 (Vol 2) Joela Jacobs, 2019 8 also result in the extinction of humans, thus demonstrating the power of plants. The human entanglement with and dependence on plant life emerges most clearly in the texts when both police chief and priest express their desire to “eradicate all plants on the entire earth, to destroy these lusting, incestuous, perverse creatures root and branch” (Ewers, 1904/1919, p. 123) in a “new Deluge” (Panizza, 1891/1981, p. 168).	cache/catalyst-30027.pdf	txt/catalyst-30027.txt