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From Organization to Plantization: Towards a Plantist Turn in Social Movements PARK, Taeho The notion of ‘organization’, which assumes wholeness, organic uniformity, centrality, and hierarchy as inevitable, is usually considered as the 'universal' form of an collective. In this paper, I‘d like to question this notion, which is taken for granted regardless of class, conservative or progressive, or profession, and seek an alternative path for social movements and collective activity. To this end, I will identify the anthropocentric (or more accurately, animal-centric) mode of thought that the concept of organization presupposes. This mode of thought, which privileges the animal organism and substantiates the conception of life, belongs to the 'modern episteme,' and concepts such as the struggle for existence, exploitation, antagonism, and interest are also included in it. A 'plantist turn' is necessary to break away from this. To achieve this, we first re-examine the superiority and hierarchy established between plants and animals. Based on this, I will propose the concept of 'plantization' to replace the concept of organization. Through the singulaities of the planit’s mode of existence, I will propose the important components of plantization that contrast with organization. The differential vectors of communism will allow us to distinguish the different directions of plantization. We will demonstrate that plantization is not merely an imagination but is already rooted in reality by providing examples of the various forms of plantization that appear in social movements. I will examine how plantization, contrary to the conventional idea the term might easily evoke, is unrelated to small scale, horizontality, or isolation, and is not even necessarily opposed to organization. Finally, I will add several methods for warding-off the anticipated dangers of temporary centralization. This will serve as a resource for envisioning alternative ways of thinking about social movements in the era of post-labor, where the foundation of the organization is rapidly diminishing. organization, platization, animal-centrism, plantist turn, social movement, commune, modern episteme
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