Fungi Media
Performing Fungosexual Mutations
dc.contributor.author | Bockowski, Piotr | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-16T11:34:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-07-16T11:34:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92230 | |
dc.description.abstract | Fungi Media positions performance art of bodily mutations as a form of corporeal philosophy. Examining ecologies of rot and fungal decomposition, it outlines a theory of fungosexuality beyond sexual reproduction and binary gender roles. This theoretical perspective repositions queer sexualities in the context of the original meaning of the term ‘queer’, which is ‘rot’ – and which stands for a fungi-induced process of decomposition. With this, Fungi Media explores the foundational importance of rot for both breaking down and sustaining bodies, relationships and life as such. "Bockowski’s book – like its decompositional protagonist, fungi – performs what it also examines: some intensive ways in which queer, networked and entangled bodies can break down complex and compromised entities to ‘enable new mutant fusions’. Fungi Media is a fecund new contribution to the emerging field – both figural and literal – of ‘libidinal ecology’; and the book’s exploration of ‘fungosexuality’ is as rich, gamey, provocative and risky as foraging hungrily in a toxic urban ecology full of unfamiliar toadstools" Dominic Pettman, University Professor of Media and New Humanities, The New School for Social Research | en_US |
dc.language | English | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFK Non-graphic and electronic art forms::AFKP Performance art | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Performance art; bodily mutations; corporeal philosophy; media technologies; primal life processes | en_US |
dc.title | Fungi Media | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | Performing Fungosexual Mutations | en_US |
dc.type | book | |
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | f4b2eb29-a039-427a-9368-b62dcacdb4bd | en_US |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9781785421396 | en_US |
oapen.pages | 276 | en_US |
oapen.place.publication | London | en_US |