Felci, baobab, licheni. Contributo per un’ontologia sympoietica.

This article focuses on vegetal life as paradigmatic alternative to animal and human existence in terms of systematic organization. Through the analysis of three symptomatic vegetal species – ferns, baobabs, lichens – we try to broaden the anthropomorphic/anthropocentrism deconstruction by inclusion of vegetal alterity, proposing a revision of crucial terms in the posthuman discourse, such as individual, intern and extern, whole and parts. Rejecting the construction of a new normative frame for bioalterity, we aim at defining the ‘stay with’ relation as valid model of individuation not only for other living beings, but also for that peculiar way of individuation that is knowledge.