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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981386
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This time, I am presenting an issue, Composting Man: Worldly-Ecologies and Life/Death-Affirming Perspectives, guest-edited by Stephanie Rivera Berruz and Xalli Zúñiga. I would like to extend to you Rivera Berruz and Zúñiga’s invitation to this brilliantly conceived, vibrant zone of and for “fungal feminist futures,” as they put it in reference to the photograph of an installation piece by Xalli Zúñiga, “Composting Mestizaje.”The tranScripts section that appears after the six guest-edited articles has four entries. The first, edited by Rivera Berruz and Zúñiga, is a conversation between Perry Zurn and Gabriela Veronelli, which expands upon Zurn’s essay included in the Composting Man section of this volume. The
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/581/image/coversmallEditor’s Introduction2026-01-31text/htmlen-USEditor’s Introduction2026-01-312026TWOProject MUSE®34682026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-31Guest Editors’ Introduction
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981387
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Composting Man departs from the imaginative query of what it would mean to decompose the capitalist paradigm and its central agent: Man. With this special issue, we hope to invite thinking about the decay of empire, the rotting of capital’s toxic structures, and the unsettling of Man.We understand composting as a method that illuminates the metabolic organization of the planet’s life-producing systems, centers non-human life forms, and can use capitalist domination’s putrefying remnants to build new soil. In this spirit, we open the special issue with a photograph of an installation piece titled “Composting Mestizaje” by Xalli Zúñiga. The work consists of a book by a canonical Mexican philosopher José Vasconcelos
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/581/image/coversmallGuest Editors’ Introduction2026-01-31text/htmlen-USGuest Editors’ Introduction2026-01-312026TWOProject MUSE®73172026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-31María Lugones In Vestal: Or, a Meditation on Lifedeath
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981388
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I am drawn to a range of souls. There are the writers who smash expectation on the page, with energetic, marginally purple prose. There are the resisters who commit to listening low and healing the world. And then there are the mushroom enthusiasts, who can think of nothing better than wandering the woods in search of fungi. But María Lugones, a well-known Argentinian feminist philosopher, happened to be all three. I was first introduced to her, through her writings, in graduate school and she hasn’t left me since. The sinuousness of her prose, the defiance of her style, and her commitment to theorizing messiness and mixity irrevocably compelled me. Her queerness echoed in me and her theorizations of mestizaje
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/581/image/coversmallMaría Lugones In Vestal: Or, a Meditation on Lifedeath2026-01-31text/htmlen-USMaría Lugones In Vestal: Or, a Meditation on Lifedeath2026-01-312026TWOProject MUSE®455482026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-31Mycorrhizal Movements: A Critical Commentary
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981389
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Imagine not knowing what air is—an invisible yet omnipresent life sustainer, a gift so vital yet it nevertheless escapes our notice. In a similar vein, we are now awakening to a dimension of existence that has been long overlooked by humanity: the enigmatic world of fungi. Historically, scientists, philosophers, and writers have not explored fungi with the same depth as plants and animals, thus, fungi reveal a realm that has been barely acknowledged by our species.As crucial architects of ecosystems and cultivators of life, fungi are indispensable for the survival of countless species, including humans. They are essential decomposers, breaking down organic matter and recycling nutrients back into the soil. Fungi
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/581/image/coversmallMycorrhizal Movements: A Critical Commentary2026-01-31text/htmlen-USMycorrhizal Movements: A Critical Commentary2026-01-312026TWOProject MUSE®557952026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-31Morir y Vivir Beyond the Human: Partial Ecological Connections, the Reconceptualization of Life, and Puerto Rican Futures
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981390
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The Caribbean cradles a long and rich tradition of argumentatively linking diverse ecologies of human and non-human relationships to frame ideas of resistant imaginings (e.g., Glissant, Benitez-Rojo, Sealey, Santos Febres, Figueroa, Wynter). In the context of Puerto Rico, the coqui has been one of the most iconic organisms used to process the wounds of colonial occupation, diaspora, and belonging. “Ser como el coquim,” in the words of Danny Rivera’s famous song, “es ser nativo de aqui, que en Borinken he vivido.” El coqui, a small frog, onomatopoeically named for the loud mating call it makes at night, has served as an ecological connector that is grounded in place, precisely because it has a hard time surviving
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/581/image/coversmallMorir y Vivir Beyond the Human: Partial Ecological Connections, the Reconceptualization of Life, and Puerto Rican Futures2026-01-31text/htmlen-USMorir y Vivir Beyond the Human: Partial Ecological Connections, the Reconceptualization of Life, and Puerto Rican Futures2026-01-312026TWOProject MUSE®656252026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-31Care Chains, Capital, and Class: Toward Transnational Feminist Solidarity
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981391
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The role of life and life-making capacities within the modern Western social order has been taken up by a variety of social critiques, including biopolitics, necropolitics, Black feminism, and Marxist political economy (Cisney 2016; Mbembe 2003; Wilson Gilmore 2007; Bhattacharya 2017). Within these diverse perspectives, the bodies of subjects are disciplined by institutions and by the self into conformity with an operative norm—the particular norm in question differs based on the object of analysis. Those bodies that do not potentially or actually conform are marked as a threat and subjected to intensified state and/or institutional violence, often resulting in death. These operative norms denote an intersection in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/581/image/coversmallCare Chains, Capital, and Class: Toward Transnational Feminist Solidarity2026-01-31text/htmlen-USCare Chains, Capital, and Class: Toward Transnational Feminist Solidarity2026-01-312026TWOProject MUSE®697322026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-31Between Fungal Networks and Fractured Categories: An Interview with Gabriela Veronelli
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981392
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The following conversation took place over Zoom on May 12, 2023. A portion of the video recording was shown at the annual philoSOPHIA conference at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, that June. Below is a full transcription.All my life, I have been a bit of a fungi fanatic. And for almost two decades, now, I have been learning from María Lugones. It was only recently, however, that I became aware that Lugones, too, loved mushrooms. Not only did she love them, she saw crucial philosophical lessons in them. I am so excited today to be able to chat with you about some of those connections. Perhaps we could start simply with your relationship to Lugones?My relationship with María Lugones is multifaceted. I
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/581/image/coversmallBetween Fungal Networks and Fractured Categories: An Interview with Gabriela Veronelli2026-01-31text/htmlen-USBetween Fungal Networks and Fractured Categories: An Interview with Gabriela Veronelli2026-01-312026TWOProject MUSE®272752026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-31Mycorrhizal Movements: A Conversation with Giuliana Furci
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981393
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The following conversation took place over Zoom on May 4, 2023. A portion of the video recording was shown at the annual philoSOPHIA conference at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, that June. Below is a complete transcription. Please note that the content may contain references or information that no longer reflect current projects or developments of the Fungi Foundation.Our first question is about language. We have noticed a particular care and attention you pay to language in many areas of your work, from campaigning for mycologically inclusive language to using terms such as “coinciding” when finding a species. I find that very interesting. Another example is the care you take in using terms like
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/581/image/coversmallMycorrhizal Movements: A Conversation with Giuliana Furci2026-01-31text/htmlen-USMycorrhizal Movements: A Conversation with Giuliana Furci2026-01-312026TWOProject MUSE®501592026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-31Women on the Home Front: A Representation of War Toward Decolonization
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981394
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The term “home front” became widely used when the Japanese government passed the National Mobilization Law in 1938, closely followed by the outbreak of the Pacific War initiated by Japan.1 They strategically framed the concept of “home front” as the counterpart of the “battle field” to uniformize the nation into a state of total war. At that time, the Japanese Empire developed a dual structure, dividing its territories into “inner lands” (mainland Japan) and “outer lands” (colonies) while also aiming to expand first to China and later to Southeast Asia under the slogan of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The period from the Manchurian Incident in 1931 to the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/581/image/coversmallWomen on the Home Front: A Representation of War Toward Decolonization2026-01-31text/htmlen-USWomen on the Home Front: A Representation of War Toward Decolonization2026-01-312026TWOProject MUSE®766722026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-31A Critical Look at the Colonial Imagery of “Swallowing”: “Gustatory Vision” and the Reconstruction of Subjectivity in Banana Paradise
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981395
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When fruit transitions from a natural gift to a key object of economic colonization, it transforms from nature’s bounty into a resource for exploitation. This shift forces colonized regions into a monocultural economic model, diminishing local ecological diversity. How does cinema respond to this situation? This article examines the “banana” as an imperial fruit, exploring how films reconstruct and redeploy its image from both the colonizers’ and the colonized’s perspectives amidst colonial exploitation. It also investigates how the act of “swallowing” in film uncovers the invisible “gustatory vision” within banana imagery, touching the essence of life.For Taiwan, once known as the “Banana Kingdom,” the taste of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/581/image/coversmallA Critical Look at the Colonial Imagery of “Swallowing”: “Gustatory Vision” and the Reconstruction of Subjectivity in Banana Paradise2026-01-31text/htmlen-USA Critical Look at the Colonial Imagery of “Swallowing”: “Gustatory Vision” and the Reconstruction of Subjectivity in Banana Paradise2026-01-312026TWOProject MUSE®181772026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-31Moments of Meaning-Making VI: P–S
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981396
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Am I going to fall down? Or be imprisoned?Photo by Lena Berhoeff.I was once invited to write about the concept of the threshold. A threshold is almost but not quite a limit; not a boundary or border but an in-between; not a line but a space. And this, in the spatial, temporal, sensuous, medial, and artistic sense. The idea, or image, of a threshold has been widely used in discussions of liminality, proposed long ago by anthropologist Arnold van Gennep in his theory of the transitional rituals—rites de passage—from 1909. With that concept he described rituals in which adolescents were sent out of the inhabited world into the wilderness to fend for themselves, in order to get ready for adulthood. In that sense of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/581/image/coversmallMoments of Meaning-Making VI: P–S2026-01-31text/htmlen-USMoments of Meaning-Making VI: P–S2026-01-312026TWOProject MUSE®963542026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-31Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance by Andrea J. Pitts (review)
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Given the seemingly innumerable ways in which structural oppressions complicate communication and possibilities for coalition-building across non-dominant differences, contemporary feminist theories that seek to offer resources for resistance to multiple oppressions face many challenges. How can we best theorize action and agency in a way that does justice to the complex intertwinings of self, community, and world? Is it possible to render multiplicity and heterogeneity intelligible in spite of the homogenizing practices that constantly push us towards classification, order, and continuity as mechanisms for imperialist hegemony? And, how might we begin to engage in meaning-making projects that take seriously the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/581/image/coversmallNos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance by Andrea J. Pitts (review)2026-01-31text/htmlen-USNos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance by Andrea J. Pitts (review)2026-01-312026TWOProject MUSE®250612026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-31Feminist African Philosophy: Women and the Politics of Difference by Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/981398
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In Feminist African Philosophy: Women and the Politics of Difference (2023), Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola raises important concerns about the androcentric nature of African philosophy. She aims to show how the maleness of the field has marginalized women and weakened the role of African philosophy as a tool for decolonization. The book uses gender as paradigm in order to critique while simultaneously focusing on women’s issues with promise of augmenting earlier approaches within African philosophy rather than abandoning them. Ipadeola calls her approach a “Feminist African Philosophical” (FAP) one, which is grounded in the “principle that all persons should be treated as equals, regardless of their gender, race, or
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/581/image/coversmallFeminist African Philosophy: Women and the Politics of Difference by Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola (review)2026-01-31text/htmlen-USFeminist African Philosophy: Women and the Politics of Difference by Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola (review)2026-01-312026TWOProject MUSE®375172026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-01-31