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<p>Hi all</p>
<p>Let me just pick up a few threads here to follow through<br>
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From Kate Rich - "i'm particularly interested in non-model
businesses - experiments in business which do not scale or replicate
but can travel, cross-breed and transmit - & also in martin
parker's idea of insurgent entrepreneurship as a set of potentially
transformative practices in reorienting economy, for communities as
well as individuals."<br>
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From Ilze Black - the human networks that transport kombucha, the
t-shroom, ultimately "to put forward the notion of symbiosis for the
post-net network imagination! Mycelium networks offer us organic
metaphors to re-evaluate ourselves....They give us a chance to move
away from human=machine rhetoric, from cyborg like visions of future
transhumans, and possibly change the course of current industrial
enterprise. This, however, requires for every supporter to become a
symbiosis partner, to be considered as a cell in a social mycelium.
"<br>
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<p>From Liz, risking getting into the discourse on 'immersive
species", we would certainly be interested in the tracks of
UBERMORGEN's network projects that "undermine the current networks
of the heartless psychopaths". <br>
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I offer here also a quote from Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, <i>The
mushroom at the end of the world -on the possibility of life in
capitalist ruins</i><br>
"We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and
ecological ruination….. Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell
us how to think about collaborative survival. It is time to pay
attention to mushroom picking. Not that this will save us— but it
might open our imaginations. "<br>
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There is new relationships to be established, some disconnection to
be made...... <br>
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any takers?<br>
<br>
sl<br>
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