From monstrous mushrooms to mycological futures

当代电影、电视、文学和电子游戏的类型叙事越来越多地将fungi作为推测性世界构建的一部分。真菌和菌丝体曾一度因其异类、怪异的多样性和分类上的不确定性而令人恐惧，但对它们重新燃起的文化迷恋正促使当代科幻小说和恐怖小说通过非人类可能性的视角重新考虑真菌。本文将结合体裁研究、批判后人文主义和正式的密切分析，探讨真菌如何被用来探索人类和非人类世界不可避免的纠缠，并重新思考人类能动性和主体性的概念。在研究真菌是如何在概念上和形式上在最近的各种媒介的类型文本中被部署的，本论文将研究真菌如何在地球和物种间危机的时候帮助想象当代存在和未来生存的激进和充满希望的形式。

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.