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Pocket_9
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What can be foraged in postdigital ruins?
Que peut-on glaner dans les ruines post-numériques?
“Perhaps all that is left of the world is placesa wasteland covered with rubbish heaps, and the hanging garden of the Great Khan's palace. perceptions[[perceptions | It is our eyelids that separate them…]]” (Italo Calvino)
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Elise Morin, Mapping the Red Forest from Spring Odyssey (2020). Copyright and courtesy of the artist.
perceptionsLe soleil caresse ton visage, tandis que bodiesles ours polaires s’accrochent aux calottes de glace.
“imagine the possibility of perceptionsa comforting inter-species co-existence placesin this damaged world.” (Elise Morin Elise Morin, Spring Odyssey, 2018 - 2020. )
“Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell us how to think about collaborative survival. It is time to perceptionspay attention to mushroom picking.” (Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Anna L. Tsing, ‘A look inside The Mushroom at the End of the World‘, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. )
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Sandip Katel, Little Mushrooms World, (2021). Creative Commons license Share Alike 3.0
bodiesThe earth is caught in your fingernails.
**Reading material
* Annick Bureaud, ‘[More-Than-Planet](https://www.olats.org/more-than-planet-2022-2025/)’, Olats, 2022 - 2025.
* Elise Morin, *[Spring Odyssey](https://elise-morin.com/Spring-Odyssey-Introduction )*, 2018 - 2020.
* Anna L. Tsing, ‘[A look inside *The Mushroom at the End of the World*](https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/a-look-inside-the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world?srsltid=AfmBOorYPTmcX4ChBKOAlWvx21mOrLv3B8oUOnM0ZI5E3dx-4mcWLZHd)', Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.
* Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou, [*Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene*](https://feralatlas.org/)
* Angels in America, ‘[Belize describes Heaven](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRUrqHBILqs)’, extract from HBO miniseries directed by Mike Nichols, 2003, adapted from the play ‘Angels in America’ by Tony Kushner, 1991.
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