note: unfortunately i was unable to find a copy of Richard Bray's “Mushroom Cultivation,” but it’s only $5 on Amazon Kindle. the other book: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9o1le1h6i1r7rpo/AAD7wLn7ikOQsr3qJheJDurxa?dl=0
i am very curious about fungi. the word fungible always makes me think of fungī.
etymology break:
the term “entanglement” is experiencing some popularity in various academic spaces, something i was unaware of before i began playing with it, but am appreciative of because it gives me access to other people's thoughts on its usage and potential pitfalls. i don't intend for my theorizing around entanglement to be taken as instigating competition with the black feminist conceptualization of intersectionality; i don't know that i could claim intellectual purity or “originator” status considering my general indebtedness to black studies, black feminist and masculinist theory, and black LGBTQ theory—all of which are entangled with each other. in addition to what I've been reading regarding fungi, I've also been reading and around the term “plantationocene,” including black folks scholarship on and through the plantation. I've said this before but I'm not a huge fan of Donna Haraway's work, which i find to be plagued by whiteness. from what I've read, she doesn't tend to cite back to black scholars who have been discussing and breaking down plantation dynamics and the plantation for decades. the second author i include in this post helped theorize around the term “plantationocene” alongside Haraway. i am reading her book because i find ecology and mycology interesting and i think that my theorizing around entanglement has a deep connection to these fields. this book is in the Dropbox, linked above.