Mycelines: A Sympoetic Imagination
A Myceline is a new form of digital textual existence inspired by the way how a mycelial network grows and interacts. It can be generated based on a word-in- context analysis of one piece or multi pieces of text. A shared word between two sentences has the potentiality to become a Node, so that new mycelines can grow out of it. It breaks the linear, one directional flow of the written language and demonstrates how interconnected our language is with a new visual representation and textual behaviours.
In Staying with the Trouble, Harraway suggested sympoiesis instead of autopoiesis for the Chthulucene, a “collective-producing systems that do not have self-defined spatial or temporal boundaries. Information and control are distributed among components. The systems are evolutionary and have the potential for surprising change.” If we focus ourselves to words and texts, this turn can be interpreted as auto-poetics to sym-poetics: to let the words weave and decide how they organise themselves spatially instead of following concrete pre-defined directions, to let the concepts and thoughts interact and merge into each other as the anastomosis in fungal networks.
In this version, the text corpus is based on the content from Re-, Un-, Defining Tools.
