Ideas for Revolutionary Mycologists (2024)

Created by Lenni Reichel

EDITORIAL DETAILS

Lenni Reichel is a German geographer, mycologist and artist trained at the University of Leipzig (DE). He produced this zine during an Erasmus+ community economies traineeship at La Foresta - accademia di comunità in the Italian mountains of the Lagarina Valley between July and September 2024.

Design by Lenni Reichel

ISBN: 979-12-5713-002-2

TECHNICAL DETAILS

– limited edition, riso print, 30 copies
– 18 pages, A5
– elements: zine, short movie
– language: English

ABOUT THIS ZINE

How can we break the powerful narrative of individualism? The zine Ideas for Revolutionary Mycologists explores the deep interconnection of human beings with non-human life forms: other organisms producing oxygen, recycling nutrients, supporting our digestion, production of hormones and boosting our immune systems. The zine challenges the ways in which individualism obscures interconnectedness between all living beings on Earth and invites interspecies solidarity.

The scores offer prompts to expand the field of socio-spatial commoning and think about/with the body — alongside its entanglements with other bodies, human and non-human — on which our own bodies depend. Through these embodied modes of navigating visibility and audibility, resonance and refraction, collectivity and retreat, we might feel around for the gestures and the slippages of commoning that reveal care-full pasts, presents, and futures.