What a Ｍushroom Lives For
日期：2023/5/31
講者：Michael J. Hathaway
地點：清大人社院C304教室
時間：15：00-17：00
線上參與連結：https://meet.google.com/upr-rpxp-ynf
主辦：清大人類所、清大世界南島暨原住民族中心、陽明交大人社系、陽明交大國際文化研究中心多物種研究群
摘要:
What a Mushroom Lives For pushes today’s mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions. For centuries, Western science has promoted a human-and animal-centric framework of what counts as action, agency, movement, and behavior. But, as this talk demonstrates, the world-making capacity of mushrooms radically challenges this orthodoxy by revealing the livelily dynamism of all forms of life.
The book and lecture tell the fascinating story of one particularly prized species, the matsutake, and the astonishing ways it is silently yet powerfully shaping worlds, from the Tibetan plateau to the mushrooms’ final destination in Japan. Many Tibetan and Yi people have dedicated their lives to picking and selling this mushroom – a delicacy that drives a multibillion-dollar global trade network and that still grows only in the wild, despite scientists’ intensive efforts to cultivate it in urban lands. But this is far from a simple story of humans exploiting a passive edible commodity. Rather, the book and talk reveal the complex, symbiotic ways that mushrooms, plants, humans, and other animals interact. It explores how the world looks to the mushrooms, as well as to the people who have grown rich harvesting them.
講者：Michael J. Hathaway
地點：清大人社院C304教室
時間：15：00-17：00
線上參與連結：https://meet.google.com/upr-rpxp-ynf
主辦：清大人類所、清大世界南島暨原住民族中心、陽明交大人社系、陽明交大國際文化研究中心多物種研究群
摘要:
What a Mushroom Lives For pushes today’s mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions. For centuries, Western science has promoted a human-and animal-centric framework of what counts as action, agency, movement, and behavior. But, as this talk demonstrates, the world-making capacity of mushrooms radically challenges this orthodoxy by revealing the livelily dynamism of all forms of life.
The book and lecture tell the fascinating story of one particularly prized species, the matsutake, and the astonishing ways it is silently yet powerfully shaping worlds, from the Tibetan plateau to the mushrooms’ final destination in Japan. Many Tibetan and Yi people have dedicated their lives to picking and selling this mushroom – a delicacy that drives a multibillion-dollar global trade network and that still grows only in the wild, despite scientists’ intensive efforts to cultivate it in urban lands. But this is far from a simple story of humans exploiting a passive edible commodity. Rather, the book and talk reveal the complex, symbiotic ways that mushrooms, plants, humans, and other animals interact. It explores how the world looks to the mushrooms, as well as to the people who have grown rich harvesting them.