Piercing Earth's Veil: Mycelial Awakening
A delicious mineral feast
On your violence, our hunger is released
Deep underground we have woken from sleep
Continuously towards the light we creep
Watch us emerge—
Amidst denial and purge
In our mycelium upsurge
Generation 2 (2069-2112)
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This speculative fiction was created in the context of the Biosocial Ethics course (2023) at Malmö University. Based on Donna Haraway's Camille Stories, it spans several generations into the future to explore issues of extractivism, the right to land, and ways of "staying with the trouble" in an effort to bring about a multispecies society.
By Merle Emrich.
In collaboration with Alice Wästberg, Christophe Berbeć and Anne Leupen; with poetry by Anne Leupen.
Cover image created by AI.