From monstrous mushrooms to mycological futures

当代电影、电视、文学和电子游戏中的类型叙事越来越多地探索作为投机性世界建设一部分的丰吉的作用。真菌和菌丝体曾一度因其怪异的变异性和分类学上的不确定性而令人担忧，如今，对真菌和菌丝体的新一轮文化迷恋正促使当代科幻小说和恐怖小说从非人类的可能性这一透镜来重新考虑真菌。本文将结合体裁研究、批判后人类主义和形式分析，探讨真菌是如何被用来探索人类与非人类世界之间不可避免的纠缠，并重新思考人类的能动性和主体性。在检视真菌是如何在概念上和形式上被运用在最近跨媒介的体裁文本中的过程中，本文将探讨真菌是如何帮助想象当代存在的激进和充满希望的形式，以及在行星和物种间危机时期的未来生存。

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.