Abstract: In this conversation, Perry Zurn interviews Gabriela Veronelli, campañera of the late Argentinian feminist philosopher María Lugones. While the conversation centers on Lugones’s interest in fungi and the inspiration she took from mycelial networks, it expands well beyond that. Veronelli explores how the mycelial approach subtends Lugones’s critique of the coloniality of knowledge and its logic of purity but also supports her theorizations of relationality, Aymara philosophy, multilingualism, and human and non-human companionship. Zurn and Veronelli close by discussing Lugones’s conception of erotics as not rooted in definitive categories of gender and sexuality but rather in permeability and porosity.
Veronelli et al. (2025) studied this question.