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dc.contributor.authorBockowski, Piotr
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-16T11:34:44Z
dc.date.available2024-07-16T11:34:44Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92230
dc.description.abstractFungi 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 Researchen_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOWen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFK Non-graphic and electronic art forms::AFKP Performance arten_US
dc.subject.otherPerformance art; bodily mutations; corporeal philosophy; media technologies; primal life processesen_US
dc.titleFungi Mediaen_US
dc.title.alternativePerforming Fungosexual Mutationsen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedByf4b2eb29-a039-427a-9368-b62dcacdb4bden_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781785421396en_US
oapen.pages276en_US
oapen.place.publicationLondonen_US


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