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- | === Go Ask A Mushroom === | ||
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- | Musings on Afterculture | ||
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- | By Natalia Borissova | ||
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- | What possible intelligent natural systems can we look to for inspiration and guidelines in the patterning of our human living environments, | ||
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- | ===Spawning the resilium=== | ||
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- | Considering mycoforestry and mycogardening mycelia links all the elements of the system together, unlocks nutrient sources stored in plants and other organisms, redistributes those to wherever they are most needed. It converts rocks and organic debris into food for other species, builds the soil and maintains ecosystem diversity. It does cardinal, life-enhancing work on a grassroots and in constant dialogue with its environment. Human intervention is damaging wild nature, artificial fertilizers cause mycelia to retreat and the soil to lose a key part of its vibrancy. But myselium is a very resilient organism. It is able to reconnect following damage and remediate poisoned land, decompose toxic wastes and radioactive pollutants. If it can thrive even on gifts, my next question would be: can it remediate a society poisoned by relentless abuse of power and mycofiltrate contemporary culture polluted by artificiality, | ||
- | In my opinion, one of the most significant problems with contemporary culture is that it tends to focus on the objects/ | ||
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- | What if we inoculate society with a mycorrhizal resilient fungus to generally enhance the health of our cultural environments? | ||
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- | As the mycelium exhausts the food sources in one area it expands outward in a circular fashion the fungus cannibalizes the inner mycelium, extracting whatever nutrients it can from there and moves them to the outer, growing regions. Whatever cannot be recycled is shut off from the growing region and allowed to decay. May be it's the time for the culture to cannibalizes the inner of itself extracting nutrients and redistribute them according to the real needs? | ||
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- | By analogy with mycelia a “resilients-organism” (“resilium”) could be compared with a vegetal part of the culture which spreads out widely through time and space, popping up in the most unexpected places to spark joyful illuminations. It adsorbs complex reality upside down, digests it externally by relishing enzymes of curiosity, creativity and knowledge. It makes it available for the self-absorption and for other organisms to feast on. Btw, this method - ' | ||
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- | ===From mono-culture to self-sustaining ecosystem=== | ||
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- | What layout or design of our environment could be called “nature-logical”? | ||
- | When each individual organism has multiple roles and interconnections within this kind of ecosystem, edges can be optimised and resources reused. Problems, limitations and mistakes can be embraced creatively, and the environment thrives. There is no need to impose connections from the outside, as each of the ecosystem’s parts is self-organising. The design of this interconnected, | ||
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- | In the time of the Afterculture, | ||
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- | If we believe that nowadays cultural communities are not just merely constructs used for formal and pragmatic convenience, | ||
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