I am Mushroom - Anticipatory Aesthetics, Futures Pheromones and Fungal Play

Summary

Marcus Bussey, with illustrations by Cat McNicholl, “takes the mycorrhizal as a metaphor for culture”: we all have deep cultural roots, and engaging environmental futures means engaging them. Through fungal reflections on ‘thinking as a body’, the paper unsettles our sense of being individuals: “Always our individuality is conditional and open, embedded as it is in cultural flows.”

Rationale

What we called a “deeper cultural ecology” becomes a fungal network here, its roots running through all of us, known through the body as much as the mind.