[NetBehaviour] nature over philosophy

Alan Sondheim sondheim at gmail.com
Sun Oct 23 18:02:02 CEST 2022


Yes, layer and leaves and an odd shoreline and a really worn-out stump of a
pylon. Right next to the pole with the fungus.

- Alan -


On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 9:30 AM Edward Picot <edward at edwardpicot.com> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> > nature over philosophy
> >
> > 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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