The logic of expression in the philosophy of religion : Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty

Abstract

As I am writing this, an alien life grows elsewhere in my house: Pleurotus citrinopileatus, otherwise known as the yellow or golden oyster mushroom. It came in the form of a kit. Inside a plastic wrapper, within an outer canvas bag, there is a substrate block. The block comes ‘fully colonised’ with the mycelium from which the mushrooms will grow. As is well known, the fungi we normally see are only the fruiting bodies of a vast underground mycelial network, a fungal web. This web forms complex, often mutually beneficial relationships with the plants and soil around it.