Mycelium
Thinking as compost
Thoughts grow from thoughts: ideas, theories, hypotheses.
But also from the sensuous, the experiential, the intuitive, the poetic.
Trauma and love-affairs.
Everything chewed and digested.
Composted and altered beyond recognition.
Transformed to new life.
Remnants of seeds can be traced here and there in the new humus.
But what has really taken root may be hard to trace back to specific sources.
Still I would like to share some parts of the huge mycelium of ideas that my thoughts as well as my art spring from.
Hoping that you may find inspiration to dig deeper into the dimensions that resonate with you.
A purkinje neuron from the human cerebellum - drawn by neuroscientist Ramón y Cajal
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"The Patterning Instinct - A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning" Jeremy Lent, 2017
"The Systems View of Life", Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi, 2014
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“The Spell of the Sensuous”, David Abram, 1997
“Entangled Life”, Merlin Sheldrake, 2020
“Influx & efflux”, Jane Bennett, 2020
“Vibrant Matter : a political ecology of things”, Jane Bennett, 2010
“Being Alive”, Tim Ingold, 2011
“Enlivenment - Towards a Poetics for the Anthropocene”, Andreas Weber, 2019
“Biophilia” Edward O.Wilson, 1984
“Last Child in the Woods - Saving our children from nature-deficit disorder” Richard Louv, 2005
“Coming Home to the Pleistocene” Paul Shepard, 1998
“The Earth has a Soul - C.G.Jung on Nature, Technology and Modern Life” Ed. Meredith Sabini, 2002
“Symbiotic Planet - A New Look at Evolution” Lynn Margulis, 1998
"Down to Earth", Bruno Latour, 2017
"Local is our Future - Steps to an Economics of Happiness", Helena Norberg-Hodge, 2019
"Survival of the Friendliest", Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods, 2020
"Earth Emotions - New Words for a New World", Glenn A.Albrecht, 2019
“Staying with the Trouble - Making Kin in the Chthulucene” af Donna Haraway
“The Mushroom at the End of the World - On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins”, Anna Tsing
“Gathering Moss” Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2003
“Resonance”, Hartmut Rosa, 2016
“The Uncontrollability of the World”, Hartmut Rosa, 2018
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“On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo”, Bruno Latour & Nikolaj Schultz, 2022
“Designing Regenerative Cultures”, Daniel Christian Wahl, 2016
"The Care Manifesto", The Care Collective, 2020
"From What is to What If - Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want", Rob Hopkins, 2019
“Confronting Capitalism - How the world works and how to change it”, Vivek Chibber, 2022
"The Moneyless Manifesto", Mark Boyle, 2012
"Active Hope", Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone, 2012
"Coming Back to Life", Joanna Macy and Molly Brown, 2014
“Voluntary Simplicity” Duane Elgin
“The Circle of Simplicity” Cecilie Andrews
“The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know Is Possible”, Charles Eisenstein, 2013
"Many Voices One Song: Shared Power with Sociocracy" Ted Rau, 2018
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Also the word Economy has its roots in the Home - οἶκος (oîkos) 'household', and νέμω (némō) 'distribute, allocate - managing our home. This has become an abstract science of all things quantifiable even if only in the virtual reality of money, which is what makes capitalism and its core project of growth possible.
If we had more knowledge of our home - ecology - and a stronger feeling of being connected with our home in an embodied way on a daily basis, we would most certainly think differently of the managing of our home - our eco-nomy.
“Women and the Gift Economy: A Radically Different Worldview Is Possible” Genevieve Vaughan, 2007
"Sacred Economics" Charles Eisenstein
"Donut Economics" Kate Raworth, 2018
"Degrowth in Movement(s) - Exploring Pathways for Transformation", Edited by Corinna Burkhart, Matthias Schmelzer and Nina Treu, 2020
"Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save The World", Jason Hickel, 2021
"Prosperity without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow", Tim Jackson
"Post Growth: Life after Capitalism", Tim Jackson, 2021
"Degrowth", Giorgios Kallos, 2018
"The Case for Degrowth", Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa and Federico Demaria, 2020 -
“The pocket guide to The Polyvagal Theory - The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe” Stephen W.Porges, 2017
“Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: An Integrative Handbook of the Mind (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)”, Daniel j. Siegel, 2012
“Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection”, Deb Dana, 2020
“The Body Keeps the Score - Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma”, Bessel Van Der Kolk, 2014
“Trauma and Memory - Brain and Body in search for the living past”, Peter Levine, 2015
“Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds”, Thomas Hübl, 2020 -
"Webs of Influence - The Psychology of Online Persuasion", Nathalie Nahai, 2017
"Hooked - How to Build Habit-Forming Products" Nir Eyal, 2014
"Decoded - The Science Behind Why We Buy", Phil Barden, 2013
"Consumer.ology" Philip Graves, 2010
”Consumed – How markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole ” , Benjamin R. Barber, 2007
”Consumer Kids – How big business is grooming our children for profit”, Ed Mayo and Agnes Nairn, 2009
“American Mania – When more is not enough” Peter C. Whybrow, 2005
”Brandchild. Remarkable insights into the minds of today´s global kids and their relationships with brands” Martin Lindstrom, 2003
”Creating Ever-Cool. A Marketer´s guide to af Kids Heart” Gene Del Vecchio, 1997
“Buy-ology”, Martin Lindström, 2009
“The Attention Merchants” Tim Wu
"id - The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century", Susan Greenfield, 2008
"Faster - The Acceleration of just about Everything" James Gleick, 1999
"Lost Connections", Johann Hari, 2018
”Psychology and Consumer Culture – The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World” Tim Kasser og Allen D. Kanner, 2003
”i-Brain – surviving the technological alteration of the modern mind”, Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan, 2008
“id – The quest for identity in the 21st century” , Susan Greenfield, 2008
”Growing up digital. The rise of the Net Generation”, Don Tapscott, 1998
"World Without Mind - The Existential Threat of Big Tech" Franklin Foer,
"iBrain - Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind", Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan, 2008
"Reclaiming Conversation - The Power of Talk in a Digital Age", Sherry Turkle, 2015
“Team Human” Douglas Rushkoff, 2019 -
“Embodiment - moving beyond mindfulness”, Mark Walsh, 2020
“Die Wise” Stephen Jenkinson
"The Wild Edge of Sorrow", Francis Weller
"The Gifts of Imperfection", Brené Brown, 2010
"I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't)", Brené Brown, 2008
“Radical Wholeness, The Emboodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being”, Philip Shepherd, 2017
“The Wisdom of Insecurity - A Message for an Age of Anxiety”, Alan W. Watts, 1951
“The Enchanted Life - unlocking the magic of the everyday” Sharon Blackie, 2018
"The Mythic Dimension" Joseph Campbell, 1959-1987
"Fearless Creating" Eric Maisel, 1995
"Insanely Gifted: Turn Your Demons into Creative Rocket Fuel", Jamie Catto, 2016 -
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