nature over philosophy http://www.alansondheim.org/becoming.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/Schizophyllumcommune.jpg Split Gill fungus from Wikipedia: "It has 23,328 distinct mating types. Individuals of any mating type are compatible for mating with most other mating types. There are two genetic loci determining the mating type, locus A with 288 alleles and locus B with 81 alleles. A pair of fungi will only be fertile if they have different A and different B alleles;[6] that is, each mating type can enter fertile pairings with 22,960 others. "a species of fungus in the genus Schizophyllum. The mushroom resembles undulating waves of tightly packed corals or loose Chinese fan. "Gillies" or "split gills" vary from creamy yellow to pale white in colour. The cap is small, 14 centimetres (381+58 in) wide with a dense yet spongey body texture. It is known as the split-gill mushroom because of the unique longitudinally divided nature of the "gills" on the underside of the cap. This mushroom is found throughout the world. It is found in the wild on decaying trees after rainy seasons followed by dry spells where the mushrooms are naturally collected. It is known for its high medicinal value and aromatic taste profile. It has recently attracted the medicinal industry for its immunomodulatory, antifungal, antineoplastic and antiviral activities that are higher than those of any other glucan complex carbohydrate." Fairly common; we haven't seen them in the east. The fungus was at a distance, on a piece of wood partly in the Providence River; I had to process the image to bring out the structure. We'll return soon for a better image. The combination of "schizo" "phyllumm" and "commune" brings to mind, obviously, Occupy, Deleuze Guattari, assemblages (which are represented in a sense by the recent mini-biome photographs I've been able to take). Again, adjacency come to mind, as well as webs, communities, transmissions. What the "becoming" image represents semiotically, the Schizophyllumcommune image might be considered the spore-adic dissemination of representation. What might be gender differentiation when it is in the tens of thousands? What is schizo-anything when the divisions are fractal? (Of course that may well be what schiz is, but that's not beside the point but within it, degree zero. (Bad pun.)) ___ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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