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Stink and the attack of the slime mold
Stink may be a super science freak, but even Dr. Stinkelstein's feeling freaked out about having a slime mold living and growing in his very own room. At Saturday Science Club, Stink learns that these one-celled organisms are smart enough to find their way out of mazes and gang up on food sources.
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Scattered notes on future imaginaries, collapse, and exit strategies – Part 1: On sci-fi aestheticism(s), Moon landings, and archaeologies of humankind
This contribution comprises short notes and blends academic references with pop culture, contemporary art, diary-like entries, and sci-fi imaginaries. Each note can be considered as a stand-alone piece, written in its own distinctive style and tone. An exercise in creative writing, these notes aim to provoke and stimulate the reader to reflect on the overarching theme of what it means to organize for the apocalypse. Part 1 includes three notes, the first of which discusses whether our capacity to envision the future is shaped and perhaps constrained by dystopian aesthetic imaginaries diffused by mainstream sci-fi pop culture. We used the generative artificial intelligence (AI) software Midjourney to create four images representing four hypothetical futuristic landscapes with shifting relationships between humans, nature, and technology. The second note is a sarcastic diary-like entry describing a space module designed for humans to survive on the Moon. Finally, the third note recounts an episode from the sci-fi series Love, Death & Robots, where three humanoid robots land on an inhabited post-apocalyptic Earth and discover the archaeological traces of humanity's tragically unsuccessful attempts to survive.
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What moves the dead
\"From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic \"The Fall of the House of Usher.\" When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all\"-- Provided by publisher
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Gothic Mycology and Posthuman Ethics in Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher'
In light of the recent popularity of fungi in ecohorror literature and film, this essay coins the term \"Gothic mycology\" to describe instances of human-fungal hybridity that suggest posthuman entanglement and symbiosis, using Edgar Allan Poe's \"The Fall of the House of Usher\" as an early and exemplary illustration. Gothic mycology is frightening due to the very nature of fungi themselves: they resist categories, being more closely related to animals than plant life; they proliferate at seemingly unnatural rates; they grow in darkness; they are agents of decomposition; they are mysterious, chthonic, and Other. However, Gothic mycology is also inherently hopeful, offering a glimpse of how we might reimagine our entanglement with the nonhuman that goes beyond mere posthuman hybridity and embraces instead a novel becoming. Poe's tale undermines anthropocentric individualism and prioritizes human entanglement through the fungal colonization of both house and human. In doing so, Poe's tale transgresses the boundary of what defines the human and suggests the necessity, or, perhaps more accurately, the current reality of our hybrid, dependent, and symbiotic relationship with the more-than-human.
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Little Tree and the wood wide web
\"Little Tree is very small on the dark forest floor. She is terribly lonely and she can't reach any light or water. Her worried feeling sinks down to the tips of her roots. But little does she know her roots are connected to a network of fungus that connects every single tree in the forest. The network sends her message all over the forest! \"Little Tree needs help!\" But who will listen?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Pulpy Fiction
Taking a long view of mycological history, this essay considers how studies of fungal life have modeled fugitive, cryptic, and queer forms of belonging that open the body and the body politic to modes of collectivity that trouble the equation of ecology with holistic closure. Turning to Arthur Machen's The Hill of Dreams, this essay shows how the geographies of desire and belonging created through fungal intimacies make it impossible to speak of either the self-contained individual or ecology in the singular. Open and plural, selves and worlds proliferate, contaminate, and interpenetrate through the infectious touch of fungal relations.
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A SHIFT IN THE ETHICS OF HARDY'S FICTION 1
[...]they bear marks of their labour on their persons, whether this means carrying newborn sheep (for Gabriel the shepherd turned bailiff) or being dyed a devilish shade of red (for Diggory the reddleman). [...]of suppressing his consciousness of the value objects have or are likely to have for him, he fails in his ability to preserve his own life. [...]when Grace hears 'a faint noise amid the trees, resembling a cough' in the storm that causes Giles's death, she assumes that what she has heard (the location of the sound) has told her all she needs to know. In both the scene in which Tess stands on the thresher tying sheaves of corn and the scene in which she is about to be raped, she loses her margins, imbibes the essence of her surroundings, and assimilates herself to them. Because she does not maintain her consciousness and freedom of movement, however, this three-stage activity does not produce an impartial experience of her environment.
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