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Selected Essays

Ilka Becker: Dead or Alive? Agency des Lebendigen ›kritisches Vermögen‹ in Mark Dions Neukom Vivarium, in: Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 57/1, special issue: Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie (2012), eds. Thomas Hensel and Jens Schröter, 103–125.

>> Mediators of Trance. María Sabina – Gordon Wasson – Bruce Conner, in: Mediality on Trial: Testing and Contesting Trance and other Media Techniques, ed. Ehler Voss, Berlin: De Gruyter 2020, 339–369.

>> Pilze und Dekomposition in der künstlerischen Praxis. Zur Heterogenese agentieller Ästhetiken«, in: Die Handlungsmacht ästhetischer Objekte, eds. Annika Schlitte, Markus Verne and Gregor Wedekind, Berlin: De Gruyter 2021, 25–52.

Sarah Kolb: Making Kin with/through Fungi. Collaborative Learning in Entangled Environments (peer-reviewd, Open Access), in: The Journal of Aesthetic Education 59/2: Cultural and Physical Geographies, eds. Eva Cronquist and Anja Kraus, University of Illinois Press (summer 2025, forthcoming).

>> »Eine Form des Wunderbaren, die das Wissen nicht scheut«. Roger Caillois als Grenzgänger zwischen Literatur, Philosophie und Wissenschaft, in: Logik des Imaginären. Diagonale Wissenschaft nach Roger Caillois, Vol. 1: Versuchungen durch Natur, Kultur und Imagination, eds. Anne von der Heiden and Sarah Kolb, Berlin: August Verlag 2018, 25–77.

>> Dizziness as Method. Roger Caillois and the Lure of Material Space, in: Dizziness – A Resource, eds. Ruth Anderwald, Karoline Feyertag and Leonhard Grond, New York, Berlin: Sternberg Press 2019 (Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vol. 24), 138–145, open access.

>> Taumel als Methode. Zur Versuchung durch die diagonalen Wissenschaften, in: Logik des Imaginären. Diagonale Wissenschaft nach Roger Caillois, Vol. 2: Spiel/Raum/Kunst/Theorie, eds. Anne von der Heiden and Sarah Kolb, Berlin: August Verlag 2024, 28–66.

>> Caillois’ geheime Elixiere, co-authored by Anne von der Heiden, in: Roger Caillois, Der Fluss Alpheios, trans. Rainer G. Schmidt, eds. Anne von der Heiden and Sarah Kolb, Berlin: Brinkmann & Bose 2016, 175–186, full text online.

Karin Leonhard: Pictura's Fertile Field. Otto Marseus van Schrieck and the Genre of Sottobosco Painting, in: Simiolus 34/2 (2009/2010), 95–118, full text online.

Corrado Nai & Vera Meyer: The Beauty and the Morbid: Fungi as Source of Inspiration in Contemporary Art, in: w/k - Between Science & Art (11/02/2020), full text online.

Alison Pouliot: Endless Forms Most Bizarre, in: Australasian Plant Conservation 24/3 (Dec 2015–Feb 2016), 14–15

>> A Meander in the Mycosphere, in: Intervalla 3 (2015), 13–25

>> The Fungal Garden, in: Australian Garden History 27/1 (2015), 15–17

>> Unearthing: A Foray into Fungal Underworlds, in: Earthsong 3/1 (2015), 12–15



>> Rethinking the Fungal Dimension of Biodiversity, in: Park Watch 257 (2014), 30–31

>> A Forgotten Kingdom, in: Wildlife Australia (Spring 2014), 12–17

>> It’s Time for a Global Strategy for Plant and Fungus Conservation, in: Australasian Plant Conservation 22/4 (2014), 22–23

 (co-authored with Tom May, Sapphire McMullan-Fisher, Peter Buchanan, Lyn Allison, Jasmin Packer)

>> Mycoentanglement: Public Perceptions of Fungi in Biodiversity Conservation, in: Fungal Conservation 4 (Feb 2014), 46–52

>> Environmental Justice for Unregarded Others: Human Responsibility For A Forgotten Kingdom in World Conservation and Agriculture, in: Looking Within: Finding an Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship Lens, ed. Karen Druffle, Oxford: Interdisciplinary Press 2013
, 67–74

>> Fleeting Lives, in: Philosophy, Activism, Nature 10 (2013), 133–136

Anna Tsing: Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species, in: Environmental Humanities 1 (2012), 141–154, open access.