[NetBehaviour] nature over philosophy

[Edward Picot]

Fascinating - I can't really quite make that first picture out. Is there 
a layer of water, on which those leaves are floating?

On 10/23/22 4:16 AM, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour wrote:
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> nature over philosophy
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> http://www.alansondheim.org/becoming.jpg
> http://www.alansondheim.org/Schizophyllumcommune.jpg
> Split Gill fungus
>
> from Wikipedia:
>
> "It has 23,328 distinct mating types. Individuals of any mating
> type are compatible for mating with most other mating types.
> There are two genetic loci determining the mating type, locus A
> with 288 alleles and locus B with 81 alleles. A pair of fungi
> will only be fertile if they have different A and different B
> alleles;[6] that is, each mating type can enter fertile pairings
> with 22,960 others.
>
> "a species of fungus in the genus Schizophyllum. The mushroom
> resembles undulating waves of tightly packed corals or loose
> Chinese fan. "Gillies" or "split gills" vary from creamy yellow
> to pale white in colour. The cap is small, 14 centimetres
> (381+58 in) wide with a dense yet spongey body texture. It is
> known as the split-gill mushroom because of the unique
> longitudinally divided nature of the "gills" on the underside of
> the cap. This mushroom is found throughout the world.
>
> It is found in the wild on decaying trees after rainy seasons
> followed by dry spells where the mushrooms are naturally
> collected. It is known for its high medicinal value and aromatic
> taste profile. It has recently attracted the medicinal industry
> for its immunomodulatory, antifungal, antineoplastic and
> antiviral activities that are higher than those of any other
> glucan complex carbohydrate."
>
> Fairly common; we haven't seen them in the east. The fungus was
> at a distance, on a piece of wood partly in the Providence
> River; I had to process the image to bring out the structure.
> We'll return soon for a better image.
>
> The combination of "schizo" "phyllumm" and "commune" brings to
> mind, obviously, Occupy, Deleuze Guattari, assemblages (which
> are represented in a sense by the recent mini-biome photographs
> I've been able to take). Again, adjacency come to mind, as well
> as webs, communities, transmissions. What the "becoming" image
> represents semiotically, the Schizophyllumcommune image might be
> considered the spore-adic dissemination of representation. What
> might be gender differentiation when it is in the tens of
> thousands? What is schizo-anything when the divisions are
> fractal? (Of course that may well be what schiz is, but that's
> not beside the point but within it, degree zero. (Bad pun.))
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