[xmca] Current edition of Theory & Psychology

[christine schweighart <schweighartgate@hotmail.com>]

Dear Greg and Andy,
 
It might help to use an analogy from something living and 'energetic' rather than grains of sand or material threads. To go back to the example of mycelia ( fungii - as a 'sister' family to animals, rather than plants or rhizomes) - the hyphae under the soil are hollow and conduct flow of nutrients, they also change conditions of the soils and enable other plants  to live in relationship with themselves. Hyphae of different individuals  of the species join together- or not- depending upon local conditions. When they do the permeable boundaries in between  soils ( which they 'condition') and the flow-channels, also then change in 'liquidity'  and can even be dissolved and 'reused' - depending upon the direction of movement relative to nutrients and resources for the mycelia.
 
It's not a full parallel - though Stamets  ( who studies these forms) does claim fungii as 'being sentient' http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/paul-stamets?before=1305735315
 
Though I was referring back to the past discussion where Tim Ingold had contrasted mycelia with rhizomes  and where Alan Rayner has drawn out implications from  an ontology of 'inclusionality'  for his  work ( '....:Why Self-Identity Naturally Includes Neighbourhood ' ).
 Christine.
 
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