Abstract: In an interview, the late Argentinian feminist philosopher María Lugones appeals to fungi as proof of the permeability of beings—the way they become in and through one another, the way they make each other. That interview was conducted at her home in Vestal, just outside of Binghamton, New York. One day in September 2023, I decided to visit Lugones’s grounds and meet her housekeeper. Reflecting on that visit, I take the opportunity, in this essay, to pursue an extended meditation not only on fungi and forests, dwelling and companionship, but also, and more fundamentally, on the intimacies of lifedeath.
Perry Zurn (Wed,) studied this question.