Mycelium Matter(s) – Fictionalizing Human–Mushroom Relations

Autor

  • Vishwaveda Joshi York University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26881/jk.2022.15.05

Słowa kluczowe:

mushroom, climate change

Abstrakt

Through this paper, the author tries to explore a simple yet complex question: how do we decentralize the human presence in conversations about climate-change? To do so, this speculative climate 2ction is presented through the non-human narrative perspective of mycelium (fungi). The speculative fiction provides a space for re-thinking our ontological and epistemological strategies and categorizations of nature/culture division, as well as how we understand nature in relation to human.The speculative climate-fiction proposes a reconsideration of human in relation to nature/climate, through fungi. It further explores how sensory, bodily, and multimodal methodologies may work in interaction to produce new possibilities to explore the corporealities of human-nature relationships and how a non-anthropocentric understanding of climate-change can allow for an emerging engagement with a vast mesh of human and beyond-human agencies. Drawing inspiration from Sylvia Plath, Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, and using Erin Manning’s understanding of a5ect as having a feltness that we often experience as a becoming-with, in this case, a becoming-with nature, the speculative-fiction (SF) is written as a dialogue between fungi and human. The SF also uses artwork created with mushrooms, fungal roots, as well as mushroom extracts, to exaggerate the presence of beyond-human beings in a new onto-epistemic strategy that reconsiders climate change and human–nature relationships.

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Opublikowane

2022-12-19

Jak cytować

Joshi, V. (2022). Mycelium Matter(s) – Fictionalizing Human–Mushroom Relations. Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne, (15), 64–81. https://doi.org/10.26881/jk.2022.15.05