From monstrous mushrooms to mycological futures

从巨大的蘑菇到真菌学的未来

• 批准号: 2879752
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Birkbeck, University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2879752
• 关键词: monstrous; mushrooms; mycological; futures

Contemporary genre narratives across film, TV, literature and video games are increasingly exploring the role offungi as part of speculative worldbuilding. Once feared for their alien, monstrous alterity and taxonomic uncertainty,a renewed cultural fascination with fungi and mycelium is prompting contemporary science fiction (SF) and horrortexts to reconsider fungi through the lens of nonhuman possibility. Incorporating genre studies, criticalposthumanism and formal close analysis, this thesis will explore how the fungal is used to explore the inescapableentanglement of human and nonhuman worlds and rethink ideas of human agency and subjectivity. In examininghow fungi are being deployed conceptually and formally in recent genre texts from across mediums, this thesis willexamine how fungi can help to imagine radical and hopeful forms of contemporary being and future survival at atime of planetary and interspecies crisis.

电影、电视、文学和视频游戏中的当代流派叙事越来越多地探索真菌在思辨世界构建中的作用。真菌和菌丝体曾经因其外来的、巨大的差异性和分类学的不确定性而令人担忧，但对真菌和菌丝体的新的文化迷恋正在促使当代科幻小说和恐怖文本从非人类可能性的角度重新考虑真菌。本论文将结合流派研究、批判性后人类主义和形式密切分析，探讨如何利用真菌来探索人类和非人类世界不可避免的纠葛，并重新思考人类能动性和主体性的观念。在研究真菌如何在跨媒体的最新流派文本中概念性和正式地运用时，本论文将研究真菌如何帮助想象当代存在的激进和充满希望的形式以及在地球和物种间危机时期的未来生存。