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| === Go Ask A Mushroom === | ==== Go Ask A Mushroom ==== |
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| Musings on Afterculture | Musings on Afterculture |
| By analogy with mycelium, a "resilium" could be compared with a resilient organism which spreads out widely through time and space and pops up in the most unexpected places to spark joyful illuminations. It adsorbs complex reality upside down, digests it externally by releasing enzymes of curiosity, amazement, and other magical compounds, inventively converts it into non-discriminative knowledge and makes all this available for other organisms to feast on. This method of releasing enzymes and providing food for others is the natural way the resilium feeds. As soon as enough nutrients are collected in its network, fruiting bodies emerge -- mountain bear missions, remote sensing flight operations, augmented and non-green harvests, flotilla feasts, and many other unique happenings. These materialisations respond to prevailing conditions and circumstances, and can be repeated in various forms as creatures from all walks of life join in. The vaster the resilium, the more extravagant the “fruiting bodies”. But when they die down, the essential part of the organism is still alive. And it is not a static object. It grows selectively in response to chemical signals of other entities. | By analogy with mycelium, a "resilium" could be compared with a resilient organism which spreads out widely through time and space and pops up in the most unexpected places to spark joyful illuminations. It adsorbs complex reality upside down, digests it externally by releasing enzymes of curiosity, amazement, and other magical compounds, inventively converts it into non-discriminative knowledge and makes all this available for other organisms to feast on. This method of releasing enzymes and providing food for others is the natural way the resilium feeds. As soon as enough nutrients are collected in its network, fruiting bodies emerge -- mountain bear missions, remote sensing flight operations, augmented and non-green harvests, flotilla feasts, and many other unique happenings. These materialisations respond to prevailing conditions and circumstances, and can be repeated in various forms as creatures from all walks of life join in. The vaster the resilium, the more extravagant the “fruiting bodies”. But when they die down, the essential part of the organism is still alive. And it is not a static object. It grows selectively in response to chemical signals of other entities. |
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| ===From mono to poly=== | === From mono to poly === |
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| What environmental layout or design could be called "nature-logical"? I would say that it is an "open" one that links many possible organisms into one heterogeneous kingdom of useful relationships and mutually beneficial connections -- among microbes, fungi, plants, insects, birds, mammals, and all the other inhabitants of our world, including the human species. Each individual organism has multiple roles and is interconnected within the system; edges are optimised and resources reused. Problems, limitations and mistakes are embraced creatively, and the environment thrives. There is no need to impose artificial connections from the outside. The design of this self-sustaining ecosystem differs from the formal, monocultural approach, where the parts are mostly disconnected from each other, serve just one single purpose, and require a lot of labour and resources to maintain. | What environmental layout or design could be called "nature-logical"? I would say that it is an "open" one that links many possible organisms into one heterogeneous kingdom of useful relationships and mutually beneficial connections -- among microbes, fungi, plants, insects, birds, mammals, and all the other inhabitants of our world, including the human species. Each individual organism has multiple roles and is interconnected within the system; edges are optimised and resources reused. Problems, limitations and mistakes are embraced creatively, and the environment thrives. There is no need to impose artificial connections from the outside. The design of this self-sustaining ecosystem differs from the formal, monocultural approach, where the parts are mostly disconnected from each other, serve just one single purpose, and require a lot of labour and resources to maintain. |
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| We are in fact the sometimes disconnected parts of one natural whole. Let's hallucinate that by elaborating these models and principles, the human addiction to domination and the "mono" attitude can gradually change in favour of dynamic rotations, symbiotic communities, and altered senses of reality… | We are in fact the sometimes disconnected parts of one natural whole. Let's hallucinate that by elaborating these models and principles, the human addiction to domination and the "mono" attitude can gradually change in favour of dynamic rotations, symbiotic communities, and altered senses of reality… |
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