Unexpected Flourishing: Growth from Decay in the Mycelial University

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Unexpected Flourishing is a book about rotting logs, higher education, and critical hope. Katina L. Rogers draws on the hope and possibility of mycorenewal to ask what possibilities for unexpected flourishing we can find within higher education’s decay, and how we can cultivate conditions where these possibilities can thrive: a mycelial university. In a forest,[…]

Microbium: The Neglected Lives of Micro-matter

Published: 09/07/2023

Microbium: The Neglected Lives of Micro-matter tells the story of small matter such as bacteria, coral, fungi, lichen, pollen, protozoa, and viruses. With short entries that are organized like a herbarium or similar specimen collection, the book is a “microbium”—both the term for a single microbe and a play on “microbiome.” As such, Microbium makes[…]