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.

横跨电影、电视、文学和电子游戏的当代类型叙事越来越多地探索作为思辨世界构建的一部分的原始人的角色。真菌和菌丝体曾因其异类、怪异的多变性和分类上的不确定性而备受担忧，如今人们对真菌和菌丝体的新一轮文化迷恋正促使当代科幻小说(SF)和恐怖文本从非人类可能性的角度重新审视真菌。结合体裁研究、死后批评和形式封闭分析，本文将探讨《真菌》如何被用来探索人类和非人类世界之间不可避免的纠葛，并重新思考人类的能动性和主体性。在研究真菌是如何从概念上和形式上部署在来自不同媒介的最近的体裁文本中时，这篇论文将研究真菌如何帮助想象当代存在的激进和有希望的形式，以及在地球和物种间危机的时刻未来的生存。