Kristi Onzik

Kristi Onzik is a Phd Candidate in the UC Davis Sociocultural Anthropology program. Her dissertation research studies a small but growing community of scientists experimenting with the boundaries of the scientifically (un)thinkable: plant thought. Building upon conversations in feminist science studies and a “more-than-human” anthropology, she asks how concepts like plant cognition, neurobiology, and behavior are being assembled from within the experimental practices of a variety of plant scientists—many of whom are risking their careers on not simply the possibility that plants think, but working from an inner feeling, a “tacit” knowing, that plants have always already been making sense of us; we just need to learn how to listen. She has been a visiting researcher at LINV in Florence, Italy, the MINT lab in Murcia, Spain, the Plant Growth Lab in Seattle, WA, and is an ongoing collaborator with the Biological Intelligence Lab in NSW, Australia and the Plant Studies Collaboratory.

The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence IS HERE! 

Join us for the book launch and be enchanted by a sharing of stories, dialogue, music and inspiration.

Santa Fe
Oct 28 2021

An online symposium that brings The Mind of Plants contributors together to share their reflections and various learnings with plants.

Stories, poetry and sound across a diversity of human languages and geographical landscapes. Come and join us!

USC Sunshine Coast
Apr 09 2021