Thinking with Plants and Fungi

Interdisciplinary Explorations of Ecology, Mind, and the More-than-Human World
In Focus
Rachael Petersen, Natalia Schwien Scott, and Russell C. Powell
Published
23 July 202607.23.26

Building on a landmark 2025 conference and years of interdisciplinary collaboration at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, this newly published volume examines the entanglements of mind and matter, nature and culture, human and more-than-human. Essays investigate topics including plant neurobiology, philosophy, decolonial botany, fungal ethics, and the poetics of sessility. Thinking with Plants and Fungi models a transformative form of inquiry for an age of ecological crisis.

Edited by Rachael Petersen, Natalia Schwien Scott, and Russell C. Powell

With essays by Giovanni Aloi, Elaine Ayers, Emanuele Coccia, Rande Cook, Jamie Cross, Abigail Culpepper, Samira Daneshvar, Jacob J. Erickson, William (Ned) Friedman, Giuliana Furci, Monica Gagliano, Ernesto Gianoli, Joela Jacobs, Lacey Jones, Elitza Koeva, Jessica J. Lee, Michael Marder, Rebecca McMackin, Rebecca Mendoza, Sabina Cruz de la Cruz, Sión Parkinson, Zoë Schlanger, Charles M. Stang, Banu Subramaniam, Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh.

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