Abstract
Through the “affective presencing” (Gale, 2023) of collaborative practices that “spirit” new experiencing, this paper forces into emergence the sympoiesis of ecomaterialities that challenge the constraining intentions of egocentric formations of neurotypicality and neoliberal institutionalisation. Using Spry’s creative and collaborative elision of the “natureculture body” the paper generates movements aligned with radical, botanical kin making. In this, through exemplification and affirmative critique, the inter-species mycorrhizal, sympoietic relationality of plants and fungi, are used to assist in the writing, figuring and event full worlding into practice of more than simply human collective subjectifications.
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