Veganstrukció, avagy bevezetés a fitoszemiológiába
Veganstruction, or Introduction into Phytosemiology

Summary/Abstract: In the tradition of Western culture, only humans and „more evolved” beings communicate, and among these, only humans are considered the true agents of their action. Plants were considered to be passive and helpless beings - but this idea is now changing. While plant horrors have always been a popular element of Gothic fiction, in some recent productions, such as The Event (2008) or the film under study, In the Tall Grass (2019), it is not the carnivorous plants or special mutants or species that become the source of horror, but the everyday green that grows around us. This is not only because of their agency, which undermines the concept of anthropocentrism, but also because of their language, which undermines the ideology of logocentrism. Even Cold War plant horrors often presented the language of plants as the greatest threat to culture, but in the narrative of In the Tall Grass, plant behaviour is presented as a deconstruction of anthropocentrism and functions as a semiotic critique of Western „agrilogistics”.

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