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Review: Lecture Matthew Vollgraff: Botanik als Technik

1 February 2020

At the recent conference »Form- und Bewegungskräfte / Forces of Form and Motion« (January 16-18, 2020), Matthew Vollgraff's (London) paper explored the relationship between "Human" and "Nature" in the natural philosophical discourses of the Weimar Republic. A review of his talk on botany as a technique is now available on the website of the HFBK.

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