Mycorrhizal Movements

In this multifaceted conversation, field mycologist and Fungi Foundation founder Giuliana Furci reflects on the political, ethical, and spiritual dimensions of fungal life. Speaking from decades of grassroots activism and fieldwork, Furci discusses the importance of language, relational ethics, and ancestral knowledge in mycological and ethnomycological research. She shares insights into the development of the world’s first ethnomycological ethical guidelines, the recovery and stewardship of the Historias y Memorias Mazatecas archive, and the role of fungi in deconstructing colonial and anthropocentric epistemologies. Touching on themes of rotting, symbiosis, identity, and the metaphysics of decomposition, Furci offers a visionary account of fungal co-existence, one that foregrounds discipline, reverence, and long-term, multispecies commitment to planetary care

Anthropocentrism · Colonialism · Conversation · Foregrounding · Grassroots · Metaphysics · Philosophy of science · Sustenance · Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions · Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies · Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research