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There is a growing interest in fungi and mycelium as a material, the ever-branching connecting threads of the fungal world. The entanglements and how this rhizomatic network functions is not just a fascinating ecological system and material, but carries a profound usefulness as a metaphor for our potential new systems, ways of thinking and behaviors.
Let’s Become Fungal! takes its inspiration from the world of art and mycology and shares innovative practices from Latin America and the Caribbean that are rooted in multispecies collaboration, symbiosis, alliances, non-monetary resource exchange, decentralization, bottom-up methods and mutual dependency—all in line with the behavior of the mycelium. (source)

Let’s Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts (Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez, 2023)

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Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez, author of Let’s become fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts, applies the terms “mycophile” and “mycophobe” to individuals rather than entire cultures and states that she has been constantly aware of fungi everywhere since she began studying them. Based on John Berger's book “Ways of Seeing” (1972), she argues that the way a person views fungi depends on what they know about them and associate with them. “We have to decide to pay attention to fungi in order to see them.”

In Let’s become fungal!, the book The Mushroom at the End of the World (Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing) is quoted. Reading the excerpts inspired me to look into the book further.

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-Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Autorin von ''Let’s become fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts'' bezieht die Begriffe „mykophil“ und „mykophob“ auf einzelne Personen statt auf gesamte Kulturen und gibt an, Pilze ständig und überall wahrzunehmen, seitdem sie sich mit ihnen beschäftigt. Sie argumentiert auf Basis des Buchs ''Ways of Seeing'' (1972) von John Berger, dass die Art und Weise, wie eine Person auf Pilze blickt, davon abhängt, was diese bisher über Pilze weiß und mit ihnen verbindet. '''Wir müssen uns entscheiden, Pilzen unsere Aufmerksamkeit zu schenken, um sie zu sehen.'''
+Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez, author of ''Let’s become fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts'', applies the terms “mycophile” and “mycophobe” to individuals rather than entire cultures and states that she has been constantly aware of fungi everywhere since she began studying them. Based on John Berger's book “Ways of Seeing” (1972), she argues that the way a person views fungi depends on what they know about them and associate with them. '''“We have to decide to pay attention to fungi in order to see them.”'''
+In ''Let’s become fungal!'', the book ''The Mushroom at the End of the World'' (Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing) is quoted. Reading the excerpts inspired me to look into the book further.