Walking Corpses & Conscious Plants: Possibilist Ecologies in ...
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B<strong>in</strong>gham 137<br />
able to issue an urgent call for the reform of lifestyles which have resulted from a flawed<br />
desire to found identity upon the exertion of dom<strong>in</strong>ance over others and thus encourage<br />
environmental exploitation. L<strong>in</strong>k Yaco praises the value of this change of consciousness:<br />
“That is what Moore and his readers are do<strong>in</strong>g—learn<strong>in</strong>g. Which is why his work is so<br />
much more reward<strong>in</strong>g than that of lesser lights. Moore succeeds <strong>in</strong> his aims more than<br />
many who have attempted it because he manages to make the experience enjoyable”<br />
(Yaco 252). Draw<strong>in</strong>g attention to this power dynamic through conflict, Saga of the<br />
Swamp Th<strong>in</strong>g offers readers a solution or counter by present<strong>in</strong>g the possibility of an<br />
alternate conception of identity as <strong>in</strong>formed by commonality. This would mean favor<strong>in</strong>g<br />
of harmony <strong>in</strong>stead of <strong>in</strong>dividualism, or, more simply, an acknowledgment of the relation<br />
and symbiosis between all elements, whether liv<strong>in</strong>g or not, which make up a universe.<br />
Moreover, this series gives voice to plant-life and contends that there is a will which<br />
exists and shapes the world <strong>in</strong>dependently of human desire or resistance.