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Strawberries on Life Support
The alien can be found within us; for proof, we need look no further than the colonies of bacteria proliferating in the crook of the human elbow.
Natania Meeker
Natania Meeker is currently at work with Antónia Szabari on a co-authored book tentatively entitled The Spiritual Life of Plants. She is the author of Voluptuous Philosophy: Literary Materialism in the French Enlightenment (Fordham University Press, 2006) and associate professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.